The water main leak has been repaired quicker than we anticipated so the beach at Fowler Park is now reopened! Thank you everyone for your understanding.
Beach Closed
Due to a water main break, our beach at Fowler Park will be CLOSED next week on June 24, 25 and 26. We will need to close that half of the park to repair the water main including the beach and Shelter B. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
Master Plan Survey and Public Meeting Reminder
We are halfway through June so we want to remind everyone that our Public Survey for our 2025 – 2029 Master Plan is still available through the end of June for you to take. It is linked for you below, if you do not have internet at home to take it you can do so on an iPad available at our final public meeting on June 27th at 6 pm in the Vigo County Council Chambers. We also want to remind folks that our parks include:
Fowler Park
Prairie Creek Park
Hawthorn Park & J.I. Case Wetlands
Griffin Bike Park
Ruble Park
Dewey Point/ Bicentennial Park at Wabashiki State Fish and Wildlife Area
Markle Mill Park
George and Ida Smith Park
Lee Fields Park
and the R. Kermit Flesher Memorial State Nature Preserve
If we do not own that park we are unfortunately unable to include it in our Master Plan or our Survey.
We thank you for your time and input!
Master Plan Survey and Public Meeting Reminder
We have a very busy month coming up this month in the parks, but we want to take a moment to remind everyone that our Public Survey for our 2025 – 2029 Master Plan is still available through the end of June for you to take. It is linked for you below, if you do not have internet at home to take it you can do so on an iPad available at our final public meeting on June 27th at 6 pm in the Vigo County Council Chambers. We also want to remind folks that our parks include:
Fowler Park
Prairie Creek Park
Hawthorn Park & J.I. Case Wetlands
Griffin Bike Park
Ruble Park
Dewey Point/ Bicentennial Park at Wabashiki State Fish and Wildlife Area
Markle Mill Park
George and Ida Smith Park
Lee Fields Park
and the R. Kermit Flesher Memorial State Nature Preserve
If we do not own that park we are unfortunately unable to include it in our Master Plan or our Survey.
We thank you for your time and input!
Master Plan Public Meetings
The Vigo County Parks and Recreation Department has started the process of planning and writing our next 5-year Master Plan for 2025 – 2029. We invite the public to provide their input on our park successes over the last 5 years along with what they would like to see out of the parks in the next 5 years. The first public meeting will be held Monday, May 13th at 6:00 p.m. at Fowler Park in the Log Barn and the second public meeting will be held June 27th at 6:00 p.m. in the Vigo County Council Chambers at the Vigo County Annex. There is a survey, link provided below, for the public to participate in. This can be completed on your own or there will be tablets at the public meetings for people to take the survey on then. For any questions they can contact the office at 812-462-3392.
Survey:
Master Plan Public Survey
The Vigo County Parks and Recreation Department has begun writing our 2025-2029 Master Plan. As part of that process we have created a survey for the public to participate in so that you can provide your input in what you would like to see out of our parks in the next 5 years. There will also be a chance for you to attend a public meeting with the first being on May 13th at 6 p.m. in the Fowler Park Log Barn. As you start your survey, please keep in mind that our parks include:
Fowler Park
Prairie Creek Park
Hawthorn Park & J.I. Case Wetlands
Griffin Bike Park
Ruble Park
Dewey Point/ Bicentennial Park at Wabashiki State Fish and Wildlife Area
Markle Mill Park
George and Ida Smith Park
Lee Fields Park
and the R. Kermit Flesher Memorial State Nature Preserve
We thank you for your time and input!
Full Time Maintenance Specialist/ Park Ranger position Hiring!
In addition to our seasonal positions, we are also hiring a Full Time Maintenance Specialist/ Park Ranger!
This position will be responsible for completion and supervision of projects, repairs, and general maintenance within the Vigo County park system while also responding to needs and providing security within the system. You will be rotating between the parks and working a Wednesday- Sunday evenings schedule. For more information please call 812-462-3392 or visit vigoparks.in.gov to apply!
Seasonal Hiring!
We’re hiring! We are looking for dedicated individuals to join our team for the summer to be Seasonal Maintenance, Seasonal Gatehouse and Beach Attendants! Applications are open now until March 30th, to apply be sure to visit vigocounty.in.gov or for questions call our office at 812-462-3392.
Maple Syrup Season
We hoped we wouldn’t have to make this post, but sadly mother nature had different plans for our maple syrup season this year. We believe due to a combination of an El Nino winter and the drought we’ve had our trees are not producing sap. There’s a lot of different factors in play and this is a problem that is happening not just here but all over. We sadly have not been able to collect enough sap to get our big boiling system going. We have syrup for our pancake breakfast and have a little in our reserves that we will be able to bottle during the breakfast, however, after this weekend we will have to call it quits to this year’s maple syrup season. For those attending our pancake breakfast at Prairie Creek we will have a handful of bottles that will be available for purchase, cash only. However, that will be the only syrup we will have for sale this year. We do apologize and wish mother nature cooperated better this year!
2024 Camping Season
Campground reservations are now live for our 2024 camping season! Beginning this year, we have some exciting changes in the parks. The first change is due to popular demand, we have added more direct water hook- up sites to Fowler Park. All of the Riverbirch loop will now have both electric and direct water hook-up for your convenience. We also have expanded the dates for camping this year to keep our campgrounds open for longer. We hope this will allow you to enjoy camping well into the fall and to enjoy some of our Halloween festivities at Fowler Park. Last, starting this year all of our campgrounds will now be card only and will require a reservation and check-in. Check-in can be done online or can be done at the gatehouse at Fowler Park or Hawthorn Park after 2 p.m. You can make your reservation on our website today!
