The Living River Restoration Trust hosted an opening ceremony on May 8 celebrating their new land conservation nonprofit Ferry Point Park in the Woods of Avalon neighborhood in Virginia Beach.

The new park’s 9 acres of wetlands and forest will be conserved forever as part of raising awareness of the Elizabeth River’s Eastern Branch, also known as the river’s most neglected “lost branch.” As a locally based land trust, the nonprofit Living River Restoration Trust led a three-year effort to preserve the land with multiple partners.