South African National Parks has earmarked millions of rands for infrastructure development in the West Coast National Park.
This comes after the allocation of an additional R700 million (€34.2m) for infrastructure investment over the next three years to SANParks.
This allocation by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and Environment is intended to improve the visitor experience at various national parks under SANParks’ management, and West Coast National Park is one of the parks that has received an injection of more than R31 million (€1.5m) to upgrade the park’s infrastructure and tourism facilities to ultimately improve visitors’ experience in the park and also to boost income generation.
The following projects have been highlighted for the park:
- Construction of the R27 Entrance Gate, West Coast National Park.
- Construction of the Park Management Offices.
- Geelbek Activity Node.
- Kraalbaai Management Offices and Public Ablutions.
- Duinepos – refurbishment of 11…