The new paved road serves as the park's first safe and scenic entrance and eliminates the impact of park traffic on private landowners. On a national level, this type of cooperative effort serves as a model for future partnerships between the National Park Service and the National Guard Bureau. On a local level, the Monument has established positive long term relationships with the South Carolina Army and Air National Guard, McEntire Air National Guard Station, Richland County government, and The River Alliance. The following comments are a testament to the success of the partnership. P artnership is not a new thing for the Park Service, but they did a great job of putting together a different kind.
Partnerships are usually about raising money.
This is a creative way for a small park to get some desperately needed facilities. They had the need and we had the capability of satisfying the need. It's a win-win project for everybody. In the old days, everybody was pursuing their own projects. I have been amazed at how quickly they work without any compromise in quality.