Loveland’s Mehaffey Park – Does the Map Look Like ‘Something’ to You?

Mehaffey Park in Loveland opened in the summer of 2015. It’s really unlike any park that Loveland had at the time, with 64 acres of fun.

An Adventure Playground, tennis courts, a skate park, picnic knolls, basketball courts, four pickleball courts, a dog park, disc-golf and much more. Thing is, the map of the park… kind of looks like… We’ll, you look and you decide.

It had just been a big open field for years, west of the corner of 29^th Street and Wilson in Loveland. With the summer of 2015, that field began a new life as Mehaffey Park.

The City of Loveland bought the land from the Mehaffey’s in 1997, and  started working on Mehaffey Park in the summer of 2013. With the opening of the park, it would become Loveland’s second largest developed park – second to Fairgrounds Park/Barnes Softball Complex.

I'd been looking forward to this park for some time, as Loveland had needed just this kind of park for a very long time.  I was eager to hear that it would include a 9-hole disc-golf course, thought that wouldn't be happening right away.

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Prior to Mehaffey Park being built, the City of Loveland released a map of how the park would be laid out. That map kind of looked like something out of my Jr. High Health classes at Conrad Ball in Loveland, in the 80’s.

I printed out the map and took it around to my coworkers here at the radio station, to see if they saw the same thing that I saw when looking at the map. I asked eight coworkers… I got some varied answers, including a door handle and an alien screaming, but more than a few agreed with me.