Credited with paving the way for the addition of a bike park and an 18-hole disc golf course, the 2013 Fort Tuthill County Park master plan provided a roadmap for how best utilize Coconino County’s most high-profile park.
Roughly 11 months after the Coconino County’s Parks and Recreation Department began developing an updated master plan for Fort Tuthill, the Board of Supervisors approved the “aspirational� vision for the 633 acres of county land just south of Flagstaff.
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