Students from Sparwood Secondary School are helping trail-users in the Elk Valley find their way with the creation of hand-made directional signage.
Grade 10, 11 and 12 students in Mr. Stephen Larsen’s media design class have been hard at work building custom wooden placards. Recently, they made signs for the new parking lot at the Montane trailhead to show visitors where to park their vehicles and direct them to the barn.
Students worked together in groups to complete the project using wood from logs donated by Derrick Berry.
Larsen has been developing and growing this program for the past four years. His classes have created signs for Sparwood Lunch Loop Trail, Y’Eddy Trail in Fernie and Trans Canada Trail. This spring, classes will be working on a trailhead sign for Fernie Trails Alliance and they will collaborate with Coal Creek Heritage Society to design signs for winter fat biking.