District-Wide Path Improvements
Locations
Founder’s Park, Knoll Park, Larry Fink Memorial Park, The Preserve of Highland Park
Target Start Date
September 2025
Target End Date
October 2025

Beginning in September, the Park District will be renovating several sections of path throughout the District.

Asphalt Path Renovations:

  • Section of path along Augusta Way at The Preserve of Highland Park
  • Section of path at Larry Fink Memorial Park (West of Deer Creek Racquet Club, near the Disc Golf Course)

Concrete Path Renovations:

  • Paths at Founder’s Park
  • Path at Knoll Park (*Postponed until 2026)

Path sections will be closed during construction. Signage will be put out indicating when path sections are closed and this page will be updated.

*Note: Work has been postponed at Knoll Park until 2026, the Park District is working with the City to coordinate connectivity at the site.

Project Maps

See the path improvement areas for each park below!

Project Updates

Stay Up to Date on the Latest Renovations

November 20, 2025

Work on the paths at The Preserve has been postponed until the Spring.

Rather than starting with the risk of not finishing before the weather limits work, the work at The Preserve has been postponed to the Spring to keep the paths open.

November 20, 2025
October 31, 2025

This week at Founder’s Park, the concrete forms were removed.


Work on the paths at The Preserve is expected to begin in the next few weeks.

October 31, 2025
October 24, 2025

Excavation work at Founder’s Park has been completed. Crews prepared the site, and started to pour concrete for the new paths.


Up Next at Founder’s Park: Crews will wrap up the concrete work, begin site restoration, and work to reset the bricks that were moved during the path installation.

October 24, 2025
October 10, 2025

Excavation work is underway at Founder’s Park.

October 10, 2025
October 8, 2025

The connection path at Fink Park has been paved.

Crews are working on site restoration and once complete, the path project at Larry Fink Park will be complete.

October 8, 2025
October 8, 2025

Crews will be on site at Founder’s on Friday working on excavation.

October 8, 2025
October 1, 2025

The path at Fink Park has been paved. Up next is restoration work.



Crews will be on site at Founder’s Park this week to begin work.

October 1, 2025
September 25, 2025

Work at Knoll has been postponed until 2026, the Park District is working with the City to coordinate connectivity at the site.

September 25, 2025
September 22, 2025

Schedule Updates:

Work has started at Larry Fink Park. Crews are working on demolition and preparing for the paving process.



Paving at Larry Fink Park is expected to occur on Wednesday.

September 22, 2025
September 18, 2025

Schedule Updates:

Work at Larry Fink is scheduled to begin the week of September 22.

Work at Knoll Park has been rescheduled to a later date. Work at Founder’s will now begin the week of September 22.

Check back here for updates to the schedule and the project.

September 18, 2025
September 17, 2025

Schedule Updates:

Work at Knoll Park is tentatively scheduled to begin the week of September 29.

Work at Founder’s Park is tentatively scheduled to begin the week of October 10.

Check back here for tentative start dates for path work at Larry Fink Park and The Preserve, once confirmed by the contractor.

September 17, 2025
August 29, 2025

Construction is expected to begin the week of September 15.

Check back here for updates on when each path begins construction.

During construction, the sections of path that are being renovated will be closed.

August 29, 2025