EVENTS
Past & Upcoming Events
VISION + ABOUT
A Once in a Century Park
The City and County of Denver’s Parks & Recreation (DPR) Department will work closely with the community to convert a former golf course into a 155-acre public park in the heart of the city. The site, which operated as a private golf course from the 1930s until 2018, will be ecologically restored and redesigned as the largest addition to Denver’s park system in more than a century. Park Hill Park will soon stand as the city’s fourth-largest open space—providing a vital new resource in an area long underserved by premier parks and greenways.
The Visioning Process
Over the course of nine months, we will work collaboratively with the community to develop a framework that charts a vision for the future of the site. There will be ample opportunity to get engaged in the project and provide feedback, but we are not starting from scratch. We will build off of the engagement work done in 2021, which was captured in the Park Hill Park Golf Course Prevailing Vision. The parks and open space related priorities from that initial effort are highlighted below:
Create a new, significantly-sized park and community gathering places
Preserve and expand the tree canopy to combat urban heat island effects in this area
Add youth and recreational sports opportunities
PROCESS
Process + Timeline
There are two distinct planning phases within a 9-month process. Click on the phases below to learn more about the intent and components of each phase. Products resulting from each phase, including key takeaways from analysis and assessments, project material, and takeaways from community input will be added to this site as the project advances. Each phase of work includes distinct tasks in the process of generating a preferred framework scenario for the future of the Park Hill Park site.
CONTACT
The input of Park Hill neighborhood residents as well as citywide residents will be critical to the success of a future Park Hill Park.
RESOURCES
Listen to interviews, virtual education sessions, and review the existing conditions analysis to learn more about the project.
Listen to Episode 5 of the Denver Playcast to learn more about Park Hill Park:
A once-in-a-lifetime park is coming to Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood. Jolon Clark from Denver Parks & Rec and Anna Cawrse from Sasaki join Stephanie to discuss what it’ll take to convert this former 155-acre golf course into Denver’s newest regional park.
Below is a summary of what we have heard from the community during Phase 1A of the process. This includes feedback we received from online Survey 1, Activation 1 (Youth and Family Field Day), and Activation 2 (Musical Bingo).
Below are resources, including previous planning documents that will be referenced throughout the project planning process and will help to shape the framework scenario plan for Park Hill Park. As the project advances, additional resources will be provided including information from community meetings. Check back regularly for updates!
There are concurrent efforts happening that will inform the vision for Park Hill Park, and more broadly the Park Hill Neighborhood. Have questions or thoughts about what is planned in the community around the park? Check out the upcoming Park Hill Action Plan! See below on the ways you can get more involved.
