Fort Worth continues to move through early design of planned improvements to Anderson Park<\/a>. The park north of Marine Creek Ranch Park and next to the city\u2019s Northwest Library branch, is getting new trails and new connections to existing trails nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n Blaise Grissom, project manager for the Fort Worth Park & Recreation Department, on April 2 hosted the city\u2019s second public meeting concerning the park.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the opportunities that we identified pretty early on in the site analysis was just the proximity of the new library and all that trail network that goes down to Marine Creek,\u201d said Dorothy Witmeyer, a landscape architect with Westwood Professional Services working with the city on the project.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd so, a really big component of this concept is just better connectivity to that and opportunities to \u2026 connect to the broader trail system.\u201d<\/p>\n Connecting to Marine Creek will require the trail system to pass under Crowell-Marine Creek Road. The hiking trail will also cross the creek in several places and could be designed to provide a loop around the park.<\/p>\n Other features presented in a rendering were baseball and soccer fields. The playground at Anderson Park is 20 years old and needs updates, city officials have said. The plan is to \u201cadd some inclusive elements,\u201d Witmeyer said.<\/p>\n The paths used as part of the trail system would be constructed of PermaTrak<\/a>, a concrete boardwalk system used by landscape architects and engineers for pedestrian bridges, multiuse trails, wetland boardwalks and observation piers.<\/p>\n Designs for the park improvements are still early in the process. Voters approved funding in the 2022 bond election.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re just taking it up to a 30% design,\u201d Grissom said. The parks department estimates the full design will be completed some time in 2027 and the planned improvements by 2028.<\/p>\n Anderson Park Public Meeting <\/p>\n Documenter: Patrick Banis<\/p>\n Date: April 2, 2026<\/p>\n To learn more about this meeting, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Patrick Banis is a member of the Fort Worth Report Documenters<\/a> crew. <\/p>\n