{"id":463120,"date":"2026-02-09T05:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463120\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T05:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:02:07","slug":"would-you-like-a-fat-bike-trail-at-bellevue-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463120\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you like a fat bike trail at Bellevue Park?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbecue stations may also be considered for inclusion in a new master plan for the Sault’s signature park<\/p>\n

A city subcommittee\u00a0will start work this month on a master plan for Bellevue Park,\u00a0Sault Ste. Marie\u2019s main passive park.<\/p>\n

Virginia McLeod, the city’s manager of recreation and culture, told a meeting of the parks and recreation advisory committee this week that the new subcommittee will hold its inaugural meeting on Feb. 25.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to be working on the agenda over the next week, and laying out a timeline for public consultation,” McLeod said.<\/p>\n

The popular 17-hectare park features 2.4 kilometres of asphalt walkway, a display greenhouse, floral beds, multiple playgrounds, a friendship trail, picnic shelter and a splash pad.<\/p>\n

A new master plan for Bellevue Park was recommended in the city’s 2024 Parks and Recreation Master Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That document suggested the city look at upgrades including a\u00a0fat bike trail, improvements to the duck pond and barbecue stations.<\/p>\n

“A master plan would carefully consider all of the amenities (including the marina), a plan for the playgrounds, connections required, parking needs, pathways and circulation, signage, accessibility, compatible and incompatible uses, etc. to create a thoughtful and cohesive plan for the park,” it said.<\/p>\n

“We’ll be making sure that we have some background documentation that we could share,” McLeod said about the upcoming Bellevue consultations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The last [Bellevue-specific] master plan is fairly old, so I haven’t been able to find the electronic version of it.<\/p>\n

“It’s probably going to end up being a scanned document that we’ll be able to share.<\/p>\n

“And then, taking some of the feedback that we’ve gotten\u00a0from the parks and rec master plan …\u00a0we’ll be able to pull those pieces out to say:\u00a0‘this is what the community said during the last consultation session with Bellevue Park,’ and taking all those different sources and compiling them together to make a work plan,” McLeod said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barbecue stations may also be considered for inclusion in a new master plan for the Sault’s signature park…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,189225,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-463120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fat-bikesbellevue-parkvirginia-mcleodparks-and-recreation-advisory-committeefat-bike","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}