Parks partially reopen in Bowling Green
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Such a beautiful day outside on Thursday and with it came phase one of the reopening of the Bowling Green and Warren County parks.
Get your sunscreen, your headphones or a nice lawn chair and head to your local park.
Walking trails, parking lots and disc golf are all open again to the public.
But according to Brent Belcher, Bowling Green Parks and Recreation director, social distancing guidelines remaining in effect.
“This first step is open spaces. Anything that’s wide open is the first priority so that’s the trails.
“We feel like that’s the easiest for individuals. There’s requirements to social distance. They still cannot group. You can’t have two people together that do not live in the same household. They have to stay six feet apart whether it’s on a trail, a disc golf course, at the Gardens, so they have to do that as well,” said Belcher.
But this is only phase one.
That means some things remain closed.
“A lot of the amenities inside of the park are just not going to be open that’s playground, shelters, public restrooms, outdoor fitness area here at Preston Miller, the dog park at H.P. Thomas, anything that attracts. Understand that we cannot have more than 10 people together in a social gathering and can’t be closer than 6 feet at this point to go through the state of Kentucky. So, this is, once again, just a small step to get us back on track to hopefully being able to come back in a much larger form,” said Belcher
The fresh air and exercise is revitalizing for many locals, like Marquis Whitlow.
“It relieves a lot of tension from just being feeling like you just can’t get out and stay in the house and being confined no one likes to look at those four corners of their home repeatedly and you know you love being able to interact with your family but being able to bring that now outside to do activities once again it’s very relieving,” said Whitlow.
The park representatives hope the next phase of reopening will come in the next month or so.
