Notes from the Glenmont Exchange
Montgomery Parks is nearly at the end of a more than two year process to update the master plan for Wheaton Regional Park. The new Wheaton Regional Park Master Plan aims to modernize the 60 year old park. Parks staff have been collecting ideas and comments for renovating the park from park users, residents, and other stakeholders to ensure the master plan meets the needs of the county’s growing, diverse population.
Highlights of the draft recommendations were presented at a virtual community meeting on September 9 The draft recommendations included the following highlights:
Making the Shorefield Area more attractive to older children, teens, and young adults, by renovating the Adventure Playground and adding basketball courts, soccer courts, a mountain bike skills area, and a pump track.
Activating the Rubini Athletic Complex by adding two soccer fields and replacing three diamond athletic fields with an adventure sports facility that will likely include a large regional skate park, a bouldering/climbing wall, a parkour/obstacle course, a bicycle skills area, and a splash pad.
Creating a parkwide comprehensive signage plan (including “You Are Here” signs to help orient park users), numerous new trails and trail upgrades, and many improvements to make it easier to get to the park by transit, biking, and walking.
Identifying permanent locations for food trucks and associated amenities in several park areas.
You can learn more about this project and view a recording of the September 9 meeting .
