In 1988, Mike Nash, as a newly appointed member of the City’s Rivers Committee, solicited a donation from Northwood Pulp & Timber to fund the development of the LC Gunn Park. Later, as chair of the Rivers Committee, Mike persuaded George Evanoff to build the trail and its bridge and lookouts. Mike assisted him with much of that work. The bronze plaque in the park recognises George’s role in that and other community endeavours. The city sponsored the trail in the 1990s through the River’s Committee and BC Rail (which provided the right of way for the trail)
George Evanoff and Mike Nash are largely credited as the main drivers behind this park and trail.
The trail’s name and route are a direct connection to Luther Collins Gunn, a surveyor who played a key role in the development of rail lines in the Prince George region. Luther Colins Gunn was a survey engineer who had done work for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the Pacific Great Eastern Railway when he arrived in Prince George. The L.C. Gunn trail follows the same route used by Gunn when surveying the rail routes in the Prince George area.
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