The city of Sierra Vista celebrated the completion of the Cracchiolo Family Path to Higher Education at a ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday,  alongside its partner organizations that helped make the project happen.

The path connects Cochise College, University of Arizona-Sierra Vista and Buena High School with a paved, safe route between the campuses. It adds to the City’s 29-mile network of multi-use paths within Sierra Vista , to include some county connections.

Aside from the college, the University of Arizona-Sierra Vista, the Sierra Vista Unified School District and the University South Foundation also facilitated the project by offering the use of some of its land. The federal transportation enhancement grant dollars that funded over 90 percent of this project, and many other paths in Sierra Vista, have dried up but the city is exploring various methods to continue making progress on its network of popular multi-use paths moving forward.

The path is named after a family that has been dedicated to the betterment of education in Sierra Vista for decades.