By: Las Vegas Now Staff
Las Vegas will take over ownership of part of the Las Vegas Wash and begins its plans to create three new parks.
The trust for public land will hand over the deed for the land to the city so renovation can begin. The city used federal money to buy the 13 acres of land along the Las Vegas Wash. The wash is the corridor of land where the city's runoff flows into Lake Mead and right now, it's mostly empty, barren land.
But the city plans to build a 20-mile trail that'll run through of the wash from Floyd Lamb Park to Lake Mead. Along the way there will be three new parks added because the area is currently undeserved with parks.
“The Las Vegas Wash does provide a great opportunity to get multiple uses of the land. It serves primarily as flood control to protect the neighborhoods from the big rain storm events but it will also now serve as a trail that we're developing all the way from the very far northwest down to the wetlands preserve in Clark County,” said Tom Perrigo, city of Las Vegas planning board.
The three parks will built at Washington and Lamb, Sandhill and Owens, and Marion and Harris but there's no date set for construction to begin.
Because the wash is an important ecological resource for Southern Nevada, the hope is the new trail and parks will enhance and protect the wash's ecosystem while providing a recreational experience for locals and tourists.
