Come celebrate with your South Knoxville friends and neighbors at a Saturday, June 2, 2018 Urban Wilderness Block Party at the James White Parkway Southern Terminus (its end point, where it dead-ends at Sevierville Pike). The event will be from 2-4 p.m.

City staff wants to hear your ideas and priorities for the Urban Wilderness Gateway Park Project.

In her April 27 State of the City Address, Mayor Madeline Rogero proposed a $10 million investment to create a gateway park and entrance to South Knoxville and the Urban Wilderness at the southern end of the James White Parkway. 

This new park proposes to include amenities such as a landscaped access point and gathering space at Baker Creek Preserve and at the James White Parkway Terminus, parking, pedestrian and bike pathways and trails, a bike park, additional children’s nature play areas, and improved connectivity to existing neighborhoods, businesses, schools and the planned BMX facility at South-Doyle Middle School. 

For more details or to take a survey on what should be prioritized, visit http://www.knoxvilletn.gov/uwgatewaypark.

Parking for the public meeting will be available at South-Doyle Middle School with trail access to the event. Limited parking also will be provided at the terminus. 

Anyone needing a disability accommodation to attend the public meeting should contact the City’s ADA Coordinator, Stephanie Cook, at [email protected] or 865-215-2034. For an English interpreter, contact Title VI Coordinator Tatia M. Harris at 865-215-2831.