Event Info

The Frisco Historic Park and Museum, in collaboration with Frisco Elementary School and Colorado Water Conservation Board, recently installed new interpretive signage at the Willow Preserve Nature Trail located near the corner of Tenmile Drive and Meadow Creek Drive in Frisco. Community members are invited to the ribbon cutting on Monday, June 2 from 4:30pm–6:00pm, with the ribbon cutting taking place at 4:45pm. To celebrate this collaborative community effort, free coffee, hot coca, and cookies may be enjoyed before heading out on the trail to explore the new interpretive signage. Parking is limited, and attendees are encouraged to walk or bike to the trailhead.

New Signage in Collaboration with Frisco Elementary School

The Town of Frisco received a Colorado Water Plan grant for engagement and innovation from the Colorado Water Conservation Board, who are matching 50% of funds to replace the faded interpretive signage along the Willow Preserve Nature Trail and overlook. Keeping the initial intention and tradition of being a community centered space, the Frisco Historic Park and Museum reached out Frisco Elementary School to partner on this project. Frisco Elementary School students were given a research topic that was assigned by grade level. Students then presented their research on flora and fauna found in the Willow Preserve to Town of Frisco staff and Frisco Elementary School parents over the course of two days at the Frisco Town Hall. Museum staff then used the students’ findings to create new signage, along with drawings by the students.

All new signage for this wayside exhibit is now provided in both English and Spanish. The new signs cover similar topics, starting with information on Frisco’s surrounding mountains and the creation of the Willow Preserve at the parking lot entrance to the trail. Once on the trail, signs elaborate on the flora and fauna found within the wetland habitat and why this environment is important to their wellbeing.

Where

Willow Preserve Nature Trail & Overlook Corner of Meadow Creek Drive and Tenmile Drive, just behind Taco Bell