Monday, April 8, 2013
Maryland Heights staff members say other than potential adverse impacts on wildlife, there's no negatives to a treetop adventure course coming to Creve Coeur Park.
Though pockets of Maryland Heights residents might be opposed to a treetop adventure course in Creve Coeur Park, city staff is prepared to urge local lawmakers to green-light the project that is expected to bring zip-lines to the park's canopy. According to Maryland Heights documents, acting City Planner Michael Zeek will recommend approving a conditional use permit that would allow Go Ape to build an adventure park that could open as early as May. In late February, the St. Louis County Council approved the lease for the course to be built and operated by Go Ape—a Maryland-based company that has created similar parks inIndiana, Virginia and Maryland. However, the course still needed to clear city officials, which now appears likely. City …
Friday, April 5, 2013
St. Louis City and county voters approved Proposition P on April 2, which creates a new tax designed to generate revenue for the Gateway Arch and other parks. The new tax will generate $6 million for St. Louis County parks.
With the passage of Proposition P for the Arch tax earlier this week, there will be more money allotted to St. Louis County parks, including Creve Coeur Park in Maryland Heights. On Tuesday, St. Louis City and county voters passed the proposition, which will create a 3/16ths of one-cent sales tax increase designed to generate approximately $31 million a year for improvements to the Gateway Arch grounds, the regional Great Rivers Greenway trails and greenways, and for city and county parks. The $6 million appendage for the county parks system comes after St. Louis County officials teetered on the possibility of closing many parks in 2011; although the St. Louis County Council eventually did approve a measure that laid off a number of county…
Thursday, March 28, 2013
More than one month after St. Louis County Council approved a zip-line-based treetop adventure course in Creve Coeur Park, the course heads to the Maryland Heights planning and zoning for further approval.
Although the treetop adventure course at Creve Coeur Park received a stamp of approval from the St. Louis County Council, Maryland Heights officials still need to vote on it in order for the zip line-based course to proceed. The treetop adventure course will get its first public hearing April 9 at the Maryland Heights Planning and Zoning commission meeting. Go Ape, the company seeking to build the course, is requesting of a conditional use permit for the park. Also read: In late February, the St. Louis County Council approved approved the lease for the treetop adventure course to be built and operated by Go Ape—a company based in the state of Maryland—in Creve Coeur Park. Acting Maryland Heights City Planner Mike Zeek said it now comes …
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Polar Plungers create a Harlem Shake video after diving in the icy waters of Creve Coeur Lake.
The Maryland Heights Polar Plunge happened nearly a month ago, but Patch just learned of a Harlem Shake video on YouTube that features doznes of plungers, including Shiver Bear. Roughly 800 people took the cold dive into Creve Coeur Lake for the annual Polar Plunge on Feb. 23. Sponsored by Special Olympics of Missouri, the 2013 Polar Plunge was in its seventh consecutive year. Funds raised by the event went toward helping with sports programming and tournaments held throughout the year, Jocelyn Diehl, St. Louis metro area director of Special Olympics, said.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Maryland Heights' Creve Coeur Park is again a location for this year's Confluence Trash Bash, which seeks to clear area rivers and creeks of trash.
Several organizations and residents will be turning up throughout the St. Louis County-area to participate in the 5th annual Confluence Trash Bash on March 23. The Confluence Bash, which indicates the Missouri, Mississippi and Illinois rivers coming together, helps clean up the area’s rivers and creeks and brings attention to the issues of storm water run off and dumping in these area waterways, planning coordinator Dona Anderson said. This year, the clean-up event boasts four sites: “We’re growing more and more, that’s why we’re so spread out,” Anderson said. The Trash Bash has several sponsors, including Trailnet, Great Rivers Greenway, Missouri American Water and the cities of Florissant, Hazelwood and Maryland Heights. Anderson said …
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Readers and social media followers react to the new treetop adventure park that is planned for Creve Coeur Park.
Love it or hate it, a treetop adventure course is on its way to Creve Coeur Park in Maryland Heights. The St. Louis County Council approved the controversial zip-line-based course Tuesday night. Many St. Louis-area residents were unhappy about the project and more than a dozen made a last-ditch attempt to stop the project by organizing opposition during Tuesday's council meeting. The park will open in May and be built by a company called Go Ape!, a Maryland-based company that has created similar parks inIndiana, Virginia and Maryland. Most of the opponents, Fox 2 News reports, were Audubon Society members, who had concerns were about wildlife, especially birds that will be sharing the tree tops with zip liners. Just one spoke in favor of…
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
New treetop adventure course will be built in Creve Coeur Park by a company called Go Ape!, a Maryland-based company that has created similar parks in Indiana, Virginia and Maryland.
St. Louis County Council members approved a controversial treetop adventure course in Creve Coeur Park Tuesday night. That's according to the Twitter accounts of St. Louis Post-Dispatch's reporter Steve Giegerich and KMOX reporter Allison Blood. Many St. Louis-area residents were unhappy about the proposed zip-line-based course and made a last-ditch attempt to stop the project by organizing opposition during Tuesday's county council meeting. The park will open in May and be built by a company called Go Ape!, a Maryland-based company that has created similar parks in Indiana, Virginia and Maryland. - - - Read also: Residents React to Zip-Line Course at Creve Coeur Park - - - According to Blood's Twitter feed, the project passed on five…
Members of the St. Louis County Council will vote tonight on a proposed treetop adventure park at Creve Coeur Park in Maryland Heights tonight.
- - - Updated at 9 p.m. - - - St. Louis County Council members approved a controversial treetop adventure course in Creve Coeur Park Tuesday night. That's according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Steve Giegerich's Twitter account. Many St. Louis-area residents were unhappy about the proposed zip-line-based course and made a last-ditch attempt to stop the project by organizing opposition during Tuesday's county council meeting. The park will be built by a company called Go Ape!, a Maryland-based company that has created similar parks in Indiana, Virginia and Maryland. - - - Original story - - - St. Louis-area residents unhappy about a proposed treetop are rallying in a last-ditch attempt to stop a proposed adventure course in Creve …
Friday, February 8, 2013
The Maryland Heights Residents for Responsible Growth is hosting its annual trivia night on Saturday at the Maryland Heights Community Centre on Saturday.
Want to win a free ride in a private airplane? That chance has come as the Maryland Heights Residents for Responsible Growth is hosting its annual trivia night on Saturday at the Maryland Heights Community Centre. To win the plane ride, you'll have to enter a raffle. The winner gets an aerial view of the local terrain, setting out from Creve Coeur Airport. The trivia night will benefit local farmland and Creve Coeur Park. Those interested in still registering for the event can email marylandheightsresidents@gmail.com to reserve a spot. The Maryland Heights Residents for Responsible Growth, according to its website, is a group of concerned citizens formed in 2008 in response to plans by the City of Maryland Heights and private …
St. Louis bird enthusiasts and conservationists plead with St. Louis County Council members to reject a treetop adventure course proposed for Creve Coeur Park, which originally was targeted to go in Greensfelder Park in Wildwood.
St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley at Tuesday's meeting proposed moving the location of a to-be-built treetop adventure course from a more remote area of West St. Louis County, Greensfelder Park in Wildwood, to a more urban setting of the county, Creve Coeur Park. But a St. Louis Audubon Society (SLAS) spokesperson was at the meeting to represent the interests of migratory fowl and birds in the Creve Coeur corridor, indicating such an intrusive addition would threaten the fragile wildlife and bird habitat being restored there. “Creve Coeur Park is a critical environment for migrating bird species currently facing habitat decline,” said Ballwin resident and SLAS Conservation Vice President Jean Favara at the meeting. SLAS Executive …
Ann Learner
4:28 pm on Monday, April 8, 2013
I would like to go Zip lining, but there is already a lot going on every day in already crowded Creve Coeur Park, while other parks are under-utilized. This passed the County Council when that Council was facing budget cut for parks. (I was at the meeting and this was a big consideration) This was before the recent passage of the sales tax to benefit parks. This spot, by being near a large … more ›