Monterey to Restrict Access to Meadow Creek Park

The City of Monterey has restricted access to Meadow Creek Park.

Mayor Bill Wiggins said Elk Mountain Construction started work Monday on the primary access road into Meadow Creek Park.

“In order to build the road, they are going to have to destroy what’s there now and it’s pretty sad,” Wiggins said. “So there will be no way to get back through the property while they are working on the road and addressing the drainage. But as soon as that is finished, then we will open it back up.”

Wiggins said repeated rain drainage damaged the integrity of the road.

“It’s just drainage out of the woods, up there off the mountains, that was washing away and eroding the existing road,” Wiggins said. “And creating some really horrible circumstances. So we are talking about culvert work, re-routing water.”

Wiggins said the project should take somewhere between thirty to sixty days to complete.

Monterey citizens that want to fish can take the secondary access road to the lake, Wiggins said.

“The Meadow Creek Park is on virtual shutdown there is a secondary road and I use that term loosely, just below the initial road that goes in there,” Wiggins said. “It’s much worse than what was there. But if folks want to go fishing they can park by Clarkrange Road probably and walk up there.”

Wiggins said the construction of the roadway starts a series of other improvements to the park, including a parking area.

“The complaints we have gotten about the terrible condition of the road and we are remedying that. So please, just a little patience. If they want to go fishing at a city facility we always have the lake off of Clarkrange road for second access.”