Two local Morgan County parks get improved

In the coming weeks Morgan County will expand and overlay the walking trail at Enterprise Park with asphalt. 

“If you’ve been down to that trail you can see that it needs some work,” Morgan County Public Works Director Bret Heiner told the county commission at its Oct. 1 meeting. “We need to get it overlaid; I’m worried about it lasting much longer before we have to rebuild.”

An island in the parking lot will also be removed, about 30 feet of curb will be replaced and the entire lot will be overlaid with asphalt. 

“It gets used quite a bit,” Heiner said. “That’ll help; that’ll help some.”

The parking lot at Milton Park, some of which is just dirt at this point, will also be overlaid with asphalt. A small, paved section which was tennis courts in the past will be torn out to accommodate the overlay. 

 “This would be adding asphalt because it’s never been paved on the rest of it even to the approaches to Morgan Valley Drive on both sides,” Heiner said.

“I think that would be a welcome Improvement at that park as well and would support that,” Commission Chair Mike Newton commented. “I’m sure the neighbors will appreciate that there’s not a dirt road in and out of it anymore.”

Heiner hopes the contractor, Staker Parsons, can have both projects completed by Nov. 1.

“Getting both done this year would be awesome,” he said. “We got a good fall; we got to take advantage of it.”

The Enterprise Park improvements will cost Morgan County $52,812.50 and the Milton Park improvements will be $60,187.50. The projects will be funded by park impact fees and from the county’s general fund. λ