GATLINBURG – The late Bill Stevens' vision of a handicap-accessible fishing pier in the City of Gatlinburg has become a reality.

Construction at Herbert Holt Park has been completed on a ramp on the Little Pigeon River which Stevens envisioned at a City Commission meeting years ago.

The ramp and pier will be dedicated in an official public ceremony on Friday, September 7 at 4 p.m., with members of the Stevens family, his many friends and supporters invited to attend.

Stevens supported the establishment of Gatlinburg's unique rainbow trout stocking program, which included the conversion of the City's former sewer plant into a trout farm featuring six raceways which support thousands of trout as they grow from fingerlings into adults.

The City stocks Gatlinburg waters with thousands of trout annually for local residents and visitors.

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