Give the parks a little love before Valentine’s Day

The Department of Parks and Recreation is seeking public comment on proposed improvements to Founders Park North. Comments must be received by Friday, February 13. This area north of Rapid Creek, across from Founders Park, is slated for development to enhance a variety of uses, interpretation, connectivity to bike paths and trails, and improvements to vegetation. Friends of Rapid City … Read More

Parks to Parking Lots, Don’t it always seem to go?

The mission statement of Friends of Rapid City Parks is “To ensure that Rapid City area parks are managed in a way that preserves, protects and promotes this legacy for future generations.” Future generations won’t thank us for a legacy of striped asphalt. And Friends has been opposing turning sacred ground into parking spaces since its founding in 2005. We … Read More

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