September 13, 2007
Super Park to get Regulation Little League Field

By Dave Maxwell

Architect conceptual designs of four City of Caliente parks were presented at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Caliente City Council on September 6th. Mayor Kevin Phillips gave a description of each of the park designs that had been prepared by Sunrise Engineering of Filmore, Utah.

Super Park will be expanded to include a regulation Little League field close to Ada Street with stadium lights for night games. The swimming pool will not be renovated at this time but could be later on. An outdoor basketball court will be placed at the east end of the park on the Alice Street side and an 8-foot wide ATV trail will be constructed at the southern edge of the park which will allow bikers, ATVs, hikers and pedestrians access to the mountain where the water tanks are without having to cross private property, as they do now.

At Rose Park, more trees will be planted and a larger canopy will replace the existing one on the Dixon Street side. At the corner of Main and Conaway Streets an outdoor amphitheatre will be built.

Dixon Park will have two new softball fields constructed along with a new announcer’s booth and concession stand plus stadium lights to allow for night games. At the corner of Lincoln and McKinley Streets a skate park will be put in for skateboard use.

Mayor Phillips also said that a Railroad Linear Park will run from where the Kershaw-Ryan road connects with U.S. Highway 93 and come back along the line of trees between the highway and old railroad yard to Spring Street. The area will be nicely landscaped with wrought iron benches and old fashioned street lamps at various places. Each of the parks, Phillips said will have the same kind of adornment of benches and street lamps to give an overall theme to each of the parks in the city.

The City of Caliente recently received over $8 million in grant money from the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act for the park upgrades. Construction bids will go out soon and Mayor Phillips noted at the Council meeting that if the bids come in too high, then certain cutbacks will have to occur from the existing plans. If the bids are lower, then some additions can be made to the plans.

Council members said they are in hopes that all the parks will be completed by mid-June 2008.