Salt Lake City reveals its vision for the future of its oldest park

  • Salt Lake City’s Liberty Park Vision Plan focuses on preserving existing features.
  • New proposals include a path around the pond and a new greenhouse.
  • The plan, 95% complete, will be reviewed by city leaders before it is finalized.

SALT LAKE CITY — Liberty Park has been a cherished outdoor treasure in Salt Lake City for nearly 150 years, and Utah’s capital city doesn’t plan on making too many major changes as it maps out its future.

The city unveiled its key pieces of the proposed Liberty Park Vision Plan to parkgoers on Wednesday. The document outlines project goals for the next few decades, but those goals mostly rely on maintaining beloved park features by planting new trees that will ultimately replace the park’s older ones.

However, it also proposes new elements, like a path around the park’s pond and a new greenhouse after the city determined that its historic one is unlikely to be preserved…

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