How this tiny town was saved by America's newest state park - and why it's set to boom READ MORE: 8 lesser-known national parks with stunning scenery but no crowds By James Gordon For Dailymail.com Published: 00:01 BST, 16 June 2024 | Updated: 00:22 BST, 16 June 2024 e-mail View comments The future of a tiny California town has been secured thanks to the opening of a brand new State Park that opened earlier this week. Dos Rios State Park in the Central Valley is a floodplain restoration initiative that has seen farmland returned to its natural state.
The park sits less than five miles from Grayson, a small farming community of just 1,600, which is slowly springing back to life. The mostly Latino town had been so poor that kids used to play soccer in the graveyard, until a community center was built in 2005. But now, the restoration efforts in transforming the dairy farmland back to the wild have already proven effective in protecting Grayson from flooding - and it's likely that more visitors will be drawn to the area as the beautiful wildlife returns.
The future of the tiny California town of Grayson has been secured thanks to the debut of a brand new State Park which opened earlier this week Many believe the restoration of the farmland to its natural floodplain saved the community of Grayson from being destroyed when flooding hit the area in 2023. Pictured here are homes in Grayson near the floodwaters from the San Joaquin River in Grayson in January 2023 The project, which .
