Bronze Hard Hat Award

Outstanding Landscape Project

Set within the new community of RidgeGate in the city of Lone Tree, Design Concepts helped design and create the community’s first neighborhood park on approximately six acres of land.

Under the direction of Rampart Range Metro District, the park continues the RidgeGate vision of celebrating the union of nature and the built environment. RidgeGate is described as being “a genuine community that provides the vibrant, interesting, people-oriented, mixed-use environment of an urban setting combined with the advantages of suburban life.”

The park helps connect people from the urban areas to the more natural areas via a trail system that runs down its center.

The future City Park will be located immediately to the north of Belvedere Park and will include mixed-use commercial, retail and residential components. The property to the south will be developed as a community park with athletic fields, a recreation center and an adjacent school. Further beyond the community park, the trail continues and winds up the natural bluff to an overlook seating area.

Program elements for the neighborhood park include the 12-ft-wide regional trail with neighborhood connections, age-separated playgrounds, seating waysides along the trail, picnic shelters within a plaza area, play areas for informal play, park identification signage, native landscaping and integrated art elements.

A main focus of the park is the playground area. This area emphasizes the contrast, transition and connections of the natural environment (flora, fauna and materials native to the region) and the manmade environment. Play areas are divided into an older-age play area with a climbing wall and slide, spinners and less traditional play equipment.

The younger-age play area includes a more traditional play structure with animal climbing boulders and swings. A plaza with a shade shelter sits within the two play areas and provides a central gathering area for parents and caregivers to supervise and socialize. A large, grade-separated crossing/bridge was also faced with the flagstone used throughout the park.

The park is enhanced with native and low-water plantings to complement the surrounding neighborhood landscape while minimizing the use of water and maintenance resources. Plantings emphasize the regional character as well as the seasons and highlight park entrances and gathering areas through color, texture and form.

Belvedere Park
Lone Tree

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