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Chapter III EXISTING PARK and OPEN SPACE SITES INTRODUCTION a Comprehensive Areawide Inventory of Park and Open Space Sites Chapter III EXISTING PARK AND OPEN SPACE SITES INTRODUCTION three parks smaller than 100 acres and two special-use sites, together encompassing 61 acres; and one major park site, A comprehensive areawide inventory of park and open space encompassing 283 acres. In all, these 11 sites encompass sites was conducted in 1973 under the initial regional park and 1,230 acres, or about 0.4 percent of the total area of the open space planning program1 and updated in 1985 for use in County. preparing the year 2000 County park and open space plan. The inventory of park and open space sites in the County was The five existing major County parks are Glacier Hills Park in updated again in 1995 for use in preparing this new County the Town of Richfield, Heritage Trails Park in the Town of park and open space plan. The findings of the 1995 inventory Polk, Homestead Hollow Park in the Village of Germantown, are presented in this chapter. Ridge Run Park in the City and Town of West Bend, and Sandy Knoll Park in the Town of Trenton. In addition, in The 1995 inventory identifies all park and open space sites 1995 the County owned a site in the Town of Hartford, which owned by a public agency or a public-interest organization, is being developed as the Washington County Golf Course including State, County, or local units of government, school and Family Park, scheduled to open in 1997. districts, lake protection districts, and such private nonprofit conservancy organizations as The Nature Conservancy and the The three Washington County parks which are smaller than Cedar Lakes Conservation Foundation. The inventory also 100 acres, and thus not classified as major parks, are Cedar includes such privately owned resource-oriented outdoor Lake Wayside in the Town of West Bend, Goeden Park in the recreation sites as golf courses, campgrounds, ski hills, Town of Trenton, and Lizard Mound Park in the Town of boating-access sites, swimming beaches, hunting clubs, and Farmington. such group camps as Scout or YMCA camps, and special-use outdoor recreation sites of regional significance. Special-use recreation sites owned by the County, but not part The inventory of private outdoor recreation sites focused on of the County park system, include the Washington County resource-oriented sites because the County park and open Fairgrounds in the Village of Slinger and Town of Polk, space plan is most directly concerned with the provision of located on a portion of the grounds of a County Highway sites and facilities for such activities. The inventory also Department substation, and the Hughes Burckhardt ball fields, identified such other resources of recreational significance as which are located on the County administrative center grounds existing trails and bicycle ways and historic sites listed on the in the City of West Bend and leased to the West Bend Little National Register of Historic Places. League. The County has acquired new fairgrounds in the Town of Polk. The site, which is about 133 acres, is expected EXISTING PARK AND OPEN SPACE SITES to open in 1999 or later. The present fairgrounds will remain in use until the new site is developed. Park and Open Space Sites Owned by Washington County Selected outdoor recreation facilities within the County park Park and open space sites owned by Washington County in system in 1995 are listed in Table 12. As indicated in that 1995 are shown on Map 9 and listed on Table 11. In 1995, table, major parks within the County system currently provide Washington County owned 11 such sites, including five two swimming beaches, two ice-skating ponds, and two major parks,2 encompassing 886 acres; five sites consisting of canoe-launch sites. Designated picnic areas, playfields, playgrounds, and trail systems are provided at all five major parks. Other facilities provided at the major County parks 1The regional park and open space plan is documented in include a nature center, hall, and chapel at Glacier Hills park; SEWRPC Planning Report No. 27, A Regional Park and facilities for basketball, volleyball, and horseshoes at Glacier Open Space Plan for Southeastern Wisconsin: 2000, Hills, Homestead Hollow, Ridge Run, and Sandy Knoll parks; November 1977. fishing areas at Glacier Hills, Ridge Run, and Sandy Knoll parks; and sledding hills at Homestead Hollow and Ridge Run 2Major parks are defined as large, publicly owned outdoor parks. recreation sites containing significant natural resource amenities which provide opportunities for such resource- oriented activities as camping, golfing, picnicking, and swimming. Major parks include both Type I, or regional parks, which are those having an area of 250 acres or more, having an area of between 100 and 250 acres. and Type II, or multi-community parks, which are those Facilities provided at the three County parks smaller than 100 acres in size are also shown on Table 12, including picnicking Wisconsin Department of Transportation: The Wisconsin facilities at all three sites, a canoe launch on the Milwaukee Department of Transportation in 1995 owned three wetland River at Goeden Park, and an interpretive trail through the mitigation sites within the County, which are being restored or archeological sites at Lizard Mound Park. enhanced as wetlands. They are located on the east side of USH 41 in the Town of Addison, on the north side of Park and Open Space Sites STH 143 in the Town of Trenton, and on the west side of Owned by the State of Wisconsin USH 41 in the Village of Germantown. It is anticipated that As indicated in Table 13 and shown on Map 9, in 1995 there these sites will be retained in public ownership for natural were 16 State-owned park and open space sites in Washington resource-preservation purposes. County, encompassing 11,360 acres, or about 4.1 percent of the total area of the County. Of these 16 sites, 10 sites, encom- University of Wisconsin: In 1995 there were three open space passing 11,101 acres, were owned by the Wiscon- sites affiliated with the University of Wisconsin. The site of sin Department of Natural Resources; three sites, the University of Wisconsin Center-Washington County in encompassing 195 acres, were owned by the Wisconsin West Bend encompasses about 77 acres, of which 36 acres are Department of Transportation; and three sites, encompassing used for recreational or open space purposes. The site, 64 acres, were owned by the University of Wisconsin. although managed by the University, is owned jointly by Washington County and the City of West Bend. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: The Wisconsin University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee owns two open space Department of Natural Resources has acquired large areas of sites in the County, a 21-acre site in the Town of Erin and a park and open space lands in Washington County for a variety seven-acre site in the Town of Richfield. of resource-protection and recreational purposes. Sites acquired for natural resource-preservation and limited recrea- Park and Open Space Sites Owned by Local tional purposes include the Loew Lake and Northern Units of Governments or Public School Districts the Kettle Moraine State Forest and the Allenton, Jackson In addition to the County- and State-owned park and open Marsh, and Theresa Marsh Wildlife Areas. The Department space sites in Washington County, in 1995 there were a total also owns two sites in the Town of West Bend, acquired of 124 sites owned by local units of government or public primarily for resource-preservation purposes, one adjacent to school districts. Those sites, listed on Table A-1 and shown on Gilbert Lake and one adjacent to Hacker Road. Map A-1 in Appendix A, encompass 2,211 acres, or about 0.8 percent of the total area of the County. Local governments Department-owned sites associated with more intensive own 89 park and open space sites and there are 35 sites owned recreational activities include a parcel accommodating a by public school districts. It should be noted that the acreage segment of the Ice Age Trail and a motorboat- access site on attributed to school district sites includes only those portions Big Cedar Lake, both in the Town of West Bend, and Pike of the site used for recreational or open space purposes. Lake State Park in the Town of Hartford. That park, which is classified as a major park site, includes a swimming beach, It should also be noted that one site, Riverside Park, owned by picnicking facilities, family campsites, and hiking and cross- the City of West Bend, meets the criteria as a major park, country ski trails. because of its size, 100 acres, and the resource-oriented outdoor recreational facilities provided at the park, which Map 9 also reflects project boundaries approved by the include picnicking facilities, a canoe access to the Milwaukee Wisconsin Natural Resources Board for State forests, parks, River, and a trail system through the park and along the river. and wildlife areas within the County. Lands within the Two other municipal park sites, Glacial Blue Hills, a 119-acre approved project boundaries have been identified by the park owned by the City of West Bend, and Wilderness Park, Board as appropriate additions to adjacent forests, natural a 203-acre site owned by the Village of Germantown, are over areas, or wildlife areas and are intended to be acquired by the 100 acres in size but serve primarily as open space sites for Department of Natural Resources for recreational or open resource-protection purposes rather than as major parks. The space purposes as funding permits on a “willing seller-willing Lac Lawrann Conservancy Area, a 104-acre site owned by the buyer” basis.
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