The final touches have been applied to a native plant and garden project on the D&L Trail in Lehighton.

Stacy Nash, landscape architect with Parkland Nurseries, said she and several volunteers recently put in over 800 perennials.

“We had a great group of 10 volunteers,” Nash said. “The next step is maintaining and enjoying it.”

Borough Manager Steven Travers said he’s impressed with the final product.

“They’ve done a beautiful job for what they’ve created here,” Travers said. “Enough can’t be said about the time these volunteers put in.”

Travers said he’s certain the project will attract more people to the downtown.

“They created a lovely spot here for recreation,” he said. “People will stop here at the businesses.”

Travers said it’s projects like this that make people “realize just how beautiful a place Lehighton is.”

“(Borough) council had the foresight to do this,” he said. “People need somewhere they can go and get out, and this gives them that.”

The project is along Lehigh Drive about a half-mile south of the Lehighton Outdoor Center along the west bank of the Lehigh River.

It includes native plant species and a scenic overlook of the Lehigh River.

The project is funded by a grant through the Audubon Mid-Atlantic and provided by the William Penn Foundation Funding for the Delaware River Watershed Initiative and the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.