A local school project will soon be on display at Willow Preserve Nature Trail in north Frisco.
Frisco Historic Park worked with students at Frisco Elementary School to design and install new signage on the trail, which is the oldest interpretative trail in town.
Students researched the plants and animals found along the trail, and then presented their findings with illustrations to historic park staff and their parents. They were following in the footsteps of students more than 20 years ago, when seventh graders at Summit Middle School designed the original nature walk signs.
Since then, six signs have faded beyond legibility and all eight signs are damaged. A section of the trail loop floods each spring as part of the wetland habitat cycle.
The existing signage was built and installed with money from a Great Outdoors Colorado Grant. The new signage was funded by a Colorado Water Plan grant through the Colorado Water Conservation Board.
The town bought nine acres to create the preserve in 1999. It grew to 13.5 acres in 2001, and in 2002, Colorado Headwaters LLC donated funds for maintenance and management.
Frisco invites you to a ribbon-cutting for the updated Willow Preserve Nature Trail signage on Monday, June 2 at 4:30 p.m. The park is on the corner of Tenmile Drive and Meadow Creek Drive, just east of Taco Bell overlooking Lake Dillon.