Next door in Livermore, a park that sat on the drawing board for most of a decade opens to the public Saturday.
Springtown Community Park and Disc Golf Course, at 998 Bluebell Drive beside the Springtown Library, will be celebrated with a grand opening from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. 7. Local officials will speak and families can join a scavenger hunt, the Livermore Vine reported, and the Livermore Area Recreation and Park District lists the ribbon cutting on its calendar.
Besides the 18-hole disc golf course, the 6.8-acre park has playgrounds, exercise equipment, garden plots, shaded picnic spots, a plaza, and paths for walking and biking. Restrooms and parking are on site.
A long road from a closed golf course
The park was carved from the 85-acre property that once held a nine-hole golf course. That course closed in 2015, and the city turned the land into open space.
A plan for the open space, which the City Council approved in 2017 after drafting it with the park district, sketched a park with play areas, a dog park, courts, gardens and a nine-hole disc golf layout. Without funding, it sat on the shelf, according to the Vine. The finished course has twice as many holes as the plan first suggested.
