City Parks

The City of Three Forks is home to seven parks, covering just over 9-acres. These parks offer a wide variety of recreational and outdoor opportunities. All are easily accessible via foot traffic along city streets, or you can walk or ride a bike along the Headwaters Trial System to access the furthest parks.

“Parks” are defined in the simplest term we could: a park, playground, recreational facility, pond areas, or any other area in the city, developed or undeveloped, owned or used by the city, and devoted to active or passive recreation.

The City maintains the public parks by irrigating, mowing, trimming trees and bushes, spraying for weeds and insects in both the trees and grass, and replacing trees and playground equipment as needed. This costs the taxpayers an average of $50,000 each year. To protect the citizens’ investment in parks the City established a reservation fee in order to preserve some of the park assets. Reservations which are required are listed below in the specific park’s description. The City’s Policy when one reserves use, it to ensure that use is not encroached upon by others. However, the City cannot prohibit anyone else from using the remaining areas of the park during a reserved time. For example, if you reserve the gazebo at Stevenson’s Park we will ensure it is cleaned up and ready for your use, but others could be playing basketball or throwing a Frisbee in the remaining areas of the park.

reservations

All parks are dedicated for public use. A reservation is not required to hold a birthday party, family reunion or other event. However, if one wishes to have the sole use of the gazebo in Stevenson Park ($25/half day) for example, a reservation must first be granted by the Mayor.

Parks are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis. The City Council adopted Ordinance #382-2018 on 9/11/2018 to create Title 8, Section 6: Parks.

This ordinance seeks to impose reasonable time, place and conduct controls in an appropriate and limited manner upon events and facility uses for which reservations are required.

Application, along with the applicable fee, must be submitted to City Hall for review by the Mayor prior to being granted sole use.

Questions? Please call 285-3431.