Ideas for Freeports park spark campfire meeting

FREEPORT - At a get-together featuring a campfire and smores, a local landscape architect will present options Thursday for the use of Freeports Leon Gorman Park, based on public comments made during an onsite meeting held last spring.

The session at the park, located off School Street near Bow Street Market, begins at 6:30 p.m. The park, given to the town in 2007 by Leon Gorman grandson of L.L. Bean had been intended as a skating rink. But few people have used it for that purpose, so town officials are looking for alternatives.

This will be very informal, Donna Larson, town planner, said Monday. This is brainstorming, to get a vision. Theres no money set aside, theres no plan yet to do anything.

The little park includes a covered sitting area and a small pond in a gully created by storm water and a trail.

Travis Pryor, the landscape architect, will provide an overview of the information he gathered last spring. Pryor will have concept design posters for public viewing. He fielded many suggestions and questions during the spring meeting, and has them summarized. Among the suggestions made:

Activities for older people.

Screening of the stormwater structures at the back of Bow Street Markets parking lot.

Improved signage for no-smoking rules in the park.

Additional trail connections along Frost Gully to U.S. Route 1, from Spring Street, across Bow Street to Quarry Woods and at the end of the park connecting to Freeport Conservation Trust property, the Harraseeket River and the Audubon property.

Repair of the ice skating rink.

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Ideas for Freeports park spark campfire meeting