Category Overview
Local Parks grants help protect these symbols of vibrant communities, providing places for families to gather and play and promoting a healthy and active lifestyle in an era when people spend increasing amounts of their time inside. The WWRP is the largest source of local parks funding in Washington, helping communities fund the acquisition, development, and renovation of vital recreation areas and green spaces.
Project Highlights
This project application proposes the development of one new neighborhood park & trailhead on existing city owned land within the rapidly developing North Indian Trail neighborhood in the Northwest portion of the City of Spokane. More than 2,800 of the neighborhoods households currently lack walkable access to a public park (54% of all neighborhood homes), making the neighborhoods ‘park walkability’ score the worst in the city. The proposed improvement will provide neighborhood park and trailhead access for over 650 underserved households which do not have walkable access to a park today. Despite acquiring the land in 1987, funding available to city parks has never been sufficient to fund this new park construction.The Meadowglen Park development project is one of three park development projects specifically proposed within the city’s 2022 park, and natural lands master plan and has been a primary neighborhood desire for over three decades. Park plans have already been generated with the community and phase 1 constructs the park elements highest rated by the neighborhood. These include a new neighborhood playground, new restroom facility and associated utilities, new paved off-street parking lot and trailhead, new pickleball & bocce courts, new paved pathways & nature trails, street frontage improvements, and new lawn and landscape on 8 acres of newly developed neighborhood park area. An additional 6 acres of park land will be developed in a future project phase.