The Cypress Pond Park Committee, in cooperation with the City of Montgomery, invites interested persons to discuss the development of Cypress Pond Park. Cypress Pond Park will encompass; (1) Cypress Inlet on the Alabama River adjacent to the City Amphitheater, (2) Cypress Creek, which runs approximately 6,000 feet up to the (3) Cypress Pond Area, totaling approximately 260 acres East of Lower Wetumpka Road and North of Oakwood Cemetery.
The Cypress Pond Park site is unusual in its location: it is a large track of undeveloped land located in close proximity to a downtown business district that provides scenic views of the City from high bluffs overlooking slopes with ancient ravines carved in them by the forces of nature. Below the bluffs, in lower swamp regions of the area, beautiful tupelo and cypress groves can be accessed.
This park will serve the needs of our City in and for education in nature …
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Montgomery Advertiser
November 16, 2009
By Ashley Hopkinson
Community leaders and residents are ready to move forward with a project to develop Cypress Pond Park — an undeveloped pond site located near the downtown business district in Montgomery.
The Montgomery Tree Committee, in partnership with the city of Montgomery, organized a recent meeting for residents with an active interest in the development of the project.
Before the informal meeting Thursday at Gateway Park, the Cypress Pond Park project still was in the idea phase.
Introduced in March 2008, the project already had generated large community support, but no concrete plans for funding, timelines or labor had been established.
Establishing more concrete plans was the purpose of the meeting, said Robert Cope, chairman of the Cypress Pond Park Committee and a member of the Montgomery Tree Committee.
“One of the purposes of the meeting was to take the first step to developing community-based organizations and getting people …
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The Montgomery Tree Committee, in cooperation with the City of Montgomery, is inviting interested persons to an informational meeting to discuss the development of Cypress Pond Park. Cypress Pond Park will encompass (1) Cypress Inlet on the Alabama River, (2) Cypress Creek, which runs approximately 6,000 feet up to the (3) Cypress Pond Area, approximately 260 acres East of Lower Wetumpka Road and North of Oakwood Cemetery.
The Cypress Pond site is very unique in being a large tract of undeveloped land located in close proximity to a downtown business district and providing scenic views of the City from high bluffs overlooking slopes with ancient ravines carved by the forces of nature and a swampland below.
This park will serve the needs of our City in and for education in nature and the environment, recreation, conservation and preservation of natural resources, land, water, plant and animal life and the economic revitalization of …
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