Ride your bike, bring the kids! Friends will have a booth at the Fat Tire Festival featuring games, giveaways, puzzles and more. We’ll be in Founders Park near the big fish from 1-4 on Saturday and Sunday, May 28 & 29. Enter a free drawing and win a tote full of Friends of Rapid City Parks gear.
Pedestrian & Bike Path Proposals Under Review
Rapid City’s growth management department and Alta Planning unveiled a master plan in mid-April to make bicycling and walking an integral part of transportation in Rapid City. The plan recommends 10 priority projects including signage, bike lanes and shared lanes, that could be done in the near future. It builds on existing trails and paths that run through the parks … Read More
Master Plan for bicycle & pedestrian paths
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Comments on Founders Projects Invited at Open House
The Rapid City Parks and Recreation Department has extended the following invitation: You are invited to an Open House to view and comment on proposed improvements to the Rapid City Greenway Trails and Park System Project. The improvements include bike path and pedestrian path improvements near the Central States Fairgrounds, SDSM&T, Founders Park and Executive Golf Course. The project also … Read More
“Pave Paradise, Put up a Parking Lot”
In the immortal words of Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” song, FRCP has some concerns about paving more of Rapid City’s green ribbon to accommodate parking. When the greenway is so popular that we have to cover it with parking spaces in order to enjoy it, we are in danger of loving our town’s most precious feature to death. Friends … Read More
Comments on Founders Park Project
Click to download a copy of our comments and concerns about the project. FoundersFRCP
2012 Recommendations Include Parks
Parks are among the beneficiaries of proposed projects using 2012 funding over the next several years. The three subcommittees reviewing Phase Four 2012 proposals made recommendations to the Rapid City city council in a special meeting June 30. Among the projects that will occur in, or affect, Rapid City’s parks are repairs on Canyon Lake dam, creation of a new … Read More
Bike and Pedestrian Path Consultants at Open House
Consultants working on a Rapid City bike and pedestrian path study will be on hand to hear from interested folks at an open house from 4 to 6 p.m. tomorrow, (Wednesday, June 23) in the 3rd floor conference room of the City/School Administration Center. Alta Planning + Design is preparing a Master Plan for the city and the Metropolitan Planning … Read More
Walkers and Bikers Hear about Master Plan
Members of a team beginning development of a Master Plan for Pedestrian and Bike Paths in Rapid City explained their approach and listened to comments from interested people at a an information session hosted by Friends of Rapid City Parks. Ann Friewald and Hannah Kapell of Alta Planning + Design, and local planner Mike Bender told a group of 20 … Read More
More on trails
Additions to portions of the bike trail within the park along Rapid Creek are on the city docket as well as the master planning underway for areas outside the park. Preliminary designs for trail extensions to SDSM&T and the Central States Fairgrounds will be ready for public meetings some time in July, with a projected early fall decision by the … Read More