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Berthoud Recreation Center at Waggener Farm Park
Berthoud, Colorado
Berthoud Recreation Center at Waggener Farm Park is part of the first phase of a Parks Master Plan that was conducted in Berthoud, Colorado. Within the Waggener Farm Park site, the main programing goals were to include a community recreation center, a community destination park, outdoor sports fields, outdoor community gathering spaces and pedestrian connection to the adjacent residential properties and overall trails network.
LocationBerthoud, Colorado
ClientTown of Berthoud
TypeRecreation
CategoryAquatics, Planning + Studies, Multigenerational
Square Footage49,000
Completion2021
Partners
Festival grounds with picnic tables
Fitness Garden
View into the gym and fitness garden
Event Lawn
Saving Scenery
The Waggener Farm Park site is approximately 59 acres. The site was previously leased by a farmer and operated for agricultural use. The northern third is slated for development of this project while the larger southern portion will remain primarily natural landscape.
Welcome to the Front Porch
As you approach the entry it feels like you are entering a farm house.
Stepping Inside the Farmhouse
Inside, tile mosaics and murals draw your eye through the spaces highlighting the locker rooms and the waterslide tower. A boulder climbing wall stretches along the breezeway. A pre-engineered metal gymnasium has basketball, volleyball, pickleball courts and a walking track. The aquatics center has a lazy river, large hot tub, three-lane lap pool, activity pool with spray features, climbing wall and jump platform, sprayground and waterslide. Fitness includes an outdoor fitness area. Other amenities include a flexible group fitness room, a community event room, and child watch.
Multi-court gym
Long's Peak
The iconic view of Long's Peak, which was an important connecting identifier in the community, was represented on the waterslide tower wall in a glass tile mosaic.
The painting Long’s Peak, Colorado, by William Henry Holmes from 1874 became the inspiration for the mosaic.
Long's Peak tile mosaic
Entry to the locker rooms is clean and bright
Cardio, weights and fitness area with field mural in blue
The hall is activated with a bouldering wall
Rendered vision for Child Watch Room
Completed Child Watch Room
Summer camps utilize the outdoor fields and indoor spaces
Inclusive Signage
Changing Room signs show the activities available inside
Wayfinding includes the types of activities you can find in the gym
Berthoud won a Columbine Award from Colorado Parks & Recreation Association for innovation in new facility design. The center won a Dream Design award from Aquatics International in 2022. The center is also a participant in Rec Camp and the Benchmark Network.
Click here for a virtual tour.
Community Engagement Pop-Up
Farmers Market Community Engagement
Space Planning Concept
Exterior Massing Concept
Ribbon cutting
Grand opening
CPRA Columbine Award for New Facility Design
Decorations for Halloween
“It is a rec center, but I see it as a community gathering spot as well. There were a lot of boxes we were checking as we built it that made it not your typical rec center.”
– Jeremy Olinger, Deputy Town Administrator
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