PARKS AND RECREATION BOARD
DENNIS HOGAN- CHAIR
DAWN JOHNSON- VICE CHAIR
BETTY MOORHOUSE -SECRETARY
CASSIE MIESLICK
RON KLOCEK
AMANDA RENIUS
MICHELLE COULTAS
DENNIS HOGAN- CHAIR
DAWN JOHNSON- VICE CHAIR
BETTY MOORHOUSE -SECRETARY
CASSIE MIESLICK
RON KLOCEK
AMANDA RENIUS
MICHELLE COULTAS
The Parks and Recreation Board is looking for volunteers to help with the upkeep of our beautiful park. If you are interested in volunteering your time please contact Dennis Hogan at dennishogan50@gmail.com
Have an idea or suggestion for the Parks and Recreation Board?...Such as fundraisers, events...ect Please let us know!!!
contact Dennis Hogan at; dennishogan50@gmail.com
contact Dennis Hogan at; dennishogan50@gmail.com
| park and rec draft plan.pdf |
Marathon Township Community Park Newsletter Winter 2021
MDNR has approved Marathon Township Community Park's Grant application for the proposed phase 1 improvements. These improvements will include a gravel parking area, rural restroom, concrete walk that will tie into the existing Northern connection to the Southern Links Trailway, Bike Loops, Bench and Trash receptacles. Design is currently underway and we hope to have construction begin in late spring or early summer.
If you have any future development ideas for the Park, we would love to hear from you. You can contact anyone at the Township offices or me directly at; dennishogan50@gmail.com
As always, we are looking for volunteers for light landscaping work in the spring and summer months.
Please come out enjoy and get some fresh air.
MDNR has approved Marathon Township Community Park's Grant application for the proposed phase 1 improvements. These improvements will include a gravel parking area, rural restroom, concrete walk that will tie into the existing Northern connection to the Southern Links Trailway, Bike Loops, Bench and Trash receptacles. Design is currently underway and we hope to have construction begin in late spring or early summer.
If you have any future development ideas for the Park, we would love to hear from you. You can contact anyone at the Township offices or me directly at; dennishogan50@gmail.com
As always, we are looking for volunteers for light landscaping work in the spring and summer months.
Please come out enjoy and get some fresh air.
Marathon Township Community Park
Paved access to the Southern Links Trailway has been completed at the Park. This is a portion of our phase I development . We currently have a grant application into MDNR for the remaining Phase 1 improvements which will include a rural restroom, parking lot, sidewalk and other small amenities. We anticipate to have an answer sometime in December 2020 whether or not we will be awarded Grant to complete Phase I work. If approved we would hope to begin construction in the Spring of 2021.
In cooperation with Marathon Township, Marathon Twp Parks & Recreation Board, and Lapeer County Road Commission utilizing a portion of their non-motorized funds a paved access pathway has been constructed to connect access from Park to the Southern Links Trailway that now spans a paved trailway surface from Columbiaville to Millington. We would like to thank Marathon Township, Lapeer County Road Commission, as well the outstanding work of the Contractors who were awarded the project. Marlette Excavating who did all the tree removal, excavation, culvert installation, stone placement and restoration and Astec Paving who placed the asphalt.
Additional thanks to the Parks and Recreation Board, Dawn Johnson, Betty Moorhouse, Cassie Mieslik, Ron Klocek and of course Fred Moorhouse for the hard work they did in helping to put this plan together, Lisa Easterwood of Flies and Vanderbrink our project coordinator and Richard Snyder and Thomas Dwyer who worked part time during the latter part of the summer to clear the trees for our proposed pathways.
Please take a look at some of the pictures of the Park, the proposed plan on the Township website when you have a moment and please get out to the Park and enjoy.
Kappen Tree Service came out to do a final clearing for our walking trails.