The Fishers Parks Department is springing back from winter with a whole new set of plans and slopes.
A new park is in construction on 101st St. and Cyntheanne Road.
Having fifteen parks, all with specific themes, Fishers Parks and Recreation Director Tony Elliott describes the new park to be “a place to enjoy and experience the outdoors in a much more adventurous way than ever offered in the past.”
The nature-oriented park is estimated to be open to the public in the fall once the now cornfield covered piece of land is given shape and form.
Plans for the park include a 50 to 60 foot sledding hill, mountain bike trials, fishing ponds and tree houses.
In addition to the outdoor attractions, Elliott plans to make the park available to everyone by making it accessible to those will different disabilities through paved pathways and a boardwalk. “A child in a wheel chair will have access like all the other kids to get into the tree house and have that experience,” Elliott said.
Following the parks pattern of themes, the new land will be one of the few not to focus on athletics, accompanying such parks as Pocket Park and Ritchey Woods.
Moving around the earth and adding hills to the land is part of the Parks Department’s first phase of construction.
Saving taxpayer dollars and being efficient is how Director of Public Relations, Autumn Gasior described the dirt already piled at the site.
“We worked with partners in the town so anytime earth needed to be moved, we actually took it to the park to start building the sledding hill even though construction hasn’t really started.” Gasoir said the figure of dirt siting on the site will eventually become the sledding hill.
A date is not certain for a groundbreaking ceremony, although both Elliott and Gasior believe one will take place in late April.
In the future the Parks Department hopes to connect all its parks through trails that will allow safe transportation.
For more information on all the parks, you can visit the Parks Department’s website at www.fishers.in.us
