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Price Park presentation: 112-acre preserve, trail redirects and disc-golf on CIP
Summary
Parks staff detailed Price Park’s acreage, amenities and trail‑sustainability plans; committee was briefed on a proposed disc-golf course and long‑range parking and service‑road projects in the county CIP.
Parks staff presented an overview of Price Park Conservancy in Elkhorn Monday, describing its size, features and planned improvements, and asked the committee to provide guidance on trail redirects and long‑range capital items.
Staff said Price Park comprises two parcels totaling just over 112 acres, including roughly 32 acres of wetlands, about 60 acres of woods, nearly 6 acres of prairie and 14 acres of mowed open area. Amenities include a 53‑space parking lot, a roughly 6,000‑square‑foot pole barn, picnic shelter, vault toilets, a quarry pond under one acre, about 3,50‑foot total boardwalk and more than four miles of multiuse trails, staff said.
Staff described proposed ‘‘redirects’’ — new trail alignments intended to reduce slope‑related erosion by avoiding fall‑line routes. ‘‘When you have a fall line trail like that, that’s where the water wants to go and it’s going to constantly be eroding it,’’ a parks staff member said, explaining the sustainability rationale for the green lines on the design sketch.
Capital improvement plan items identified for Price Park include a proposed disc‑golf course in fiscal 2026 (design), parking-lot rework in design in 2026 with construction in 2028, and a service road design in 2029 with construction in 2030. Staff also outlined shorter-term maintenance and trail‑marker projects planned for 2025.
Committee members asked about trail density, preserving natural area between trails and whether additional trails were necessary; staff said some new short trails and several redirects were under consideration, but not extensive new trail networks.
No formal committee action was required for the presentation. Staff indicated more detailed design and cost estimates will be returned to the committee during the CIP and project-design phases.
