Parks, Recreation, Trails and Open Space Plan

Join us on Wednesday, March 22nd, at the Ute Pass Cultural Center from 5:30 - 7pm for a drop-in open house or take the online questionnaire by clicking HERE. The questionnaire takes approximately 15 minutes. Once complete, you can enter to win a family day pass to the Woodland Aquatic Center!

The is the second questionnaire of the year-long planning process and an opportunity to provide comments on the goals and priorities of the plan. Please participate by investing 15-20 minutes to complete this questionnaire and influence the future of parks and recreation in Woodland Park.

Preliminary recommendations were presented to City Council on January 19th, 2023. The presentation can be downloaded under "Additional Resources" to the right. Next, the planning team and city staff will develop the goals, strategies, actions, that will provide the road map for how to turn these big ideas into reality. This will include assigning estimates of probable cost to significant projects tin order to consider cost as one factor related to project prioritization. The next public engagement opportunity will take place in late spring to seek community input on priorities.

Parks and Recreation staff and the planning team spent the summer seeking input from the community through in-person and online methods including focus groups, a booth at the Farmer’s market, a community-wide online questionnaire, and convening a technical advisory committee comprised of local professionals and experts from partner agencies. These efforts engaged approximately 759 people during that phase of outreach. Thank you to all who participated by sharing your ideas, concerns, preferences, and vision for the future of parks, recreation, open space, and trails in Woodland Park! Be on the lookout for upcoming opportunities to engage in project prioritization in late spring.