Future Regional Park and Open Space Planning

About the Project

The Town of Frederick is conducting a significant strategic planning effort for our Parks, Recreation, Open Space, and Trails system. As a component of that, Town staff are conceptually site-planning key areas, including Frederick Recreation Area (FRA), Centennial Park, Crist Park, and a future regional park and open space.

Bird’s-eye view renderings of Frederick Regional Park and Open Space concept.

In early summer 2024, the Town presented an initial concept to spur conversations with our community on the vision for a future regional park and open space over the next 20 to 30 years. The final concept featured here considers those conversations with our community and stakeholders through various outreach opportunities such as this project website, social media, one-on-one discussions, Community Tour and Talk in-person outings, and the Frederick in Flight and Chainsaws and Chuckwagons events.

In 2025 & 2026, Park Staff will work to complete a full master plan for this park and open space area, which will take this final concept plan and develop a funding strategy, construction phasing, additional design details and will incorporate this site into our overall system planning.

Concept plan of Frederick Regional Park and Open Space with labeled features.

Project Facts

  • Total Budget: $100,000
  • Location: Aggregate Boulevard, between Tipple Parkway and Godding Hollow Parkway

Contact Us

Communications is managed by the Town of Frederick
Project Manager: Sara Barnard
Project Hotline: 720-382-5803 

Project Benefits

  • Ensuring adequate amenities for current and future residents, both at this location and at other locations
  • Ensuring we have enough space for various future programming, such as baseball/softball and soccer, both at this location and at other locations
  • Identifying short-term open space improvement opportunities, such as passive trails, vegetation improvements, tree planting, and natural resource protection
  • Identifying and potentially prioritizing phases for long-term park improvement opportunities, such as sport courts, ball fields, and additional Town facilities to operate future parks and open spaces
  • Identifying funding for both construction and long-term maintenance, focusing on sources that come from future development projects
  • Providing future development and residents a vision for this space to help aid in their planning efforts
  • Impacts on existing and future residents about adjacent roadway improvements

Traffic Impacts

None

  1. Why is the Town planning sports fields here when they have already been proposed for the Frederick Recreation Area?
  2. Why are these park and open space amenities being considered?
  3. When would this be built?
  4. How would this project be funded?
  5. How will the Town address the additional traffic this would bring to the area?
  6. How will you protect the natural resources on this site?
  7. Would the baseball and softball fields have lights?
  8. Does this have anything to do with the Carbon Valley Parks and Recreation District (CVPRD) proposal for a new recreation center in Firestone?
  9. Will this area have trail connections to nearby neighborhoods and Downtown Frederick?
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