About Our Department
Lafayette’s open space, trail system, and parks provide a balanced network of formalized landscapes and play structures, outdoor recreation opportunities, open lands, natural areas, wildlife corridors and habitat areas, view corridors, and green ways that preserves the city’s natural, aesthetic, and community character, and provides connections between neighborhoods, the natural environment, and numerous community amenities.

Responsibilities
As the branch responsible for managing these community lands, our department oversees the maintenance and enhancements of: 

• 19 parks - 5 community parks, 14 neighborhood parks
• Park shelter rentals 
• 20 miles of trails
• 323 acres of solely owned open space and 967 acres of jointly owned open space
• Indian Peaks Golf Course 
• Select streetscapes 
• Two cemeteries
• Two community gardens

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