Our Parks are Under Threat
Land in Aspen is scarce. Our best parks and open spaces are in the crosshairs for development and infrastructure.
Wagner Park into a parking garage?
Marolt Open Space for a six lane highway?
Pocket parks for housing?
And then there’s the narrowly approved Gorsuch Haus vote that repurposed two city parks by the slimmest of margins — just 26 votes — and deeply divided our community.
If the Government wants to take our parks and open space away then they better bring us a great plan that wins solid community consensus. A plan that solves real problems and advances the greater good.
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Why this matters
Parks and Open Space are a big part of what makes Aspen Aspen. Parks are where we gather and where we play. Everyday. They are at the heart of our small town character — along with our mining town history, our gold medal streams and our renowned music and art events.
Aspen has 2,100 acres of parks, trails, and open space.
32 parks and playgrounds
37 open space properties
22 miles of pedestrian and bicycle trails
56 miles of Nordic ski trails
Our Parks are Precious
Our parks and open space lands are irreplaceable. The green spaces we have now are all we'll ever have. Locals city-wide are stepping up to jealously guard our parks and open space, making sure that we give them up only when there is strong community consensus supporting a conversion to a different use.
Our Parks Our Open Space is a group of locals standing up for Aspen’s precious parks and open space and the network of trails that wind through them. We want to protect parks by requiring a firm majority vote before a park or open space is radically changed.
Today, a park can be repurposed with simple majority of voters (50%). Aspen’s irreplaceable park lands deserve more. Our ballot question on March 4th would raise the bar to 60%.
Click here to read our question on the March 4th ballot.
