Jewel Lake Park Improvements
Park Overview
Jewel Lake is a 40.26 acre community-use park with a swimming beach, fishing dock, picnic shelter, playground, parking and picnic areas, and other recreational amenities, and is located north of Dimond Boulevard and several blocks west of Jewel Lake Road. The most heavily used and developed area in the park includes a beach and picnic area and is located at the end of 88th Avenue. The beach area is the heaviest used by the public with over 30,000 bathers each summer. Amenities at this location include a large paved parking lot, picnic shelter, beach, playground, and lifeguard stations.
Improvement Overview
Upgraded park elements have been selected to create efficiencies for maintenance and to convey a sense of orderliness and invitation for visitors using the park. The upgraded signage, including installation of our new ‘friendly rules’ sign, and relocation of the dumpster to the rear of the parking lot, will greatly improve the entrance view into the park.
Additionally, the rebuilding and relocation of the worn Lifeguard stand along with underground electric and phone for this station, will improve the view of the beach and the lake. The beach will be re-defined in this project to increase square footage while taking up less lake frontage.
A portable toilet enclosure will be created as part of this project to screen the toilets from view. The toilets and enclosure will be located outside of the entrance view-shed. A paved walkway will be constructed to bring pedestrians into the park on an accessible surface – there is currently no paved pathway into the park at this entrance. Most notably, the picnic shelter will receive an expanded paved plaza extending out well beyond the roof-line of the shelter. This will allow for use of the facility by more park visitors while keeping them out of the muddy over-used area currently existing adjacent to the shelter.
Park Improvement Concept
Comments
Please send comments to the below contact.
Suzanne R. Little
Senior Parks Planner
632 West 6th Avenue, Suite 630
Anchorage, AK 99510
phone: 343-4586
e-mail: littlesr@muni.org