Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Park and Rec Board Recommends Winnequah Park trail

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At the Park and Rec Board tonight the Board recommended further development of a proposal (OK, my proposal) to build an off-road pathway in Winnequah Park extending from about the 5400 block of Winnequah Road, along the west edge of the lagoon to Nichols Road with a possible extension beyond Nichols Road to Firemen's Park. My thought is to give people an off-road place to walk (sidewalks don't seem to be in the offing on that stretch of road) and to utilize and underused area of the park, sometimes called the Back Forty.
Posted by Doug Wood on 10/10/2006

4 comments:

  1. AnonymousWednesday, October 11, 2006

    I just hope this ties in nicely with Alderman Suslick's plan to make the channel have access to Lake Monona.

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  2. Doug WoodWednesday, October 11, 2006

    It certainly wouldn't conflict with it and would the two would arguably enhance one another, but the trail's a much smaller scale project.

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  3. AnonymousThursday, October 12, 2006

    Don't you think this will effect the geese? All people do is complain about these beautiful creatures and yet here is another attack on them.

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  4. Doug WoodThursday, October 12, 2006

    I guarantee a walking trail will not cause the geese to leave. People walking through the park will not bother them - they have walking paths through Vilas Park and they still have many geese. If this caused geese enough discomfort to leave, then many cities would have built walking trails for the express purpose of scaring geese away.

    By the way, I agree the geese are beautiful and I enjoy seeing them in the lagoon, but geese in urban parks do cause significant problems, such as harming water quality, the environment for aquatic life, and poop all over soccer fields.

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