Town of Midland Parks & Trails Master Plan

The Town of Midland, located on the shores of Georgian Bay with a population of approximately 17,000, is home to 28 municipal parks covering 321 acres, and 18 km of well-connected paved and natural trails. Parks include urban forests, naturalized areas, beaches/waterfront and formal landscapes that support a range of facilities and amenities including baseball diamonds, basketball courts, beach-volleyball courts, a skateboard park, soccer fields, disk golf, playgrounds and picnic areas.
Mehak, Kelly teamed with thinc design to develop a Parks and Trails Master Plan for the Town. The Plan addressed future parks and trails needs, maintenance requirements for individual existing parks, and recommended improvements for currently undeveloped park lands. A conceptual design for a Town-wide trail system connecting parks and neighboring municipalities was developed.
Key aspects of the team’s work included an inventory and assessment of all 28 community parks, design concepts for all parks with prioritized recommendations, proposed improvements for all existing and proposed segments of trails, and an implementation forecast of the resulting 54 projects in a twenty year roll-out sequence, with associated costing (hard and soft costs) for annual budgeting.