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~~ <br />RiverPark <br />This six-acre open area between the Orange County Courthouse and the <br />Eno River in downtown Hillsborough will include trails, benches and picnic <br />tables, a performance stage, and public market (farmer's market). It is <br />adjacent to the Stillhouse Creek Stream Restoration Project currently <br />underway, which will feature trail connections and environmental <br />education signage. <br />Twin Creeks District Park (and Educational Campus) <br />This 96-acre park along Old 86 north of Carrboro will be co-located with a <br />97-acre schools campus. The first phase of the park will include a picnic <br />shelter, meadow and nature trail, and two full-size soccer fields. The full <br />park will eventually feature four fill-size soccer fields, two baseball/softball <br />fields, tennis courts, basketball courts, a street hockey court, hiking trails, <br />two playgrounds and a water playground, fishing, three picnic shelters, <br />concession area, croquet and senior activities area, and use of the old <br />farmstead buildings for activities as yet undetermined. <br />West Ten Soccer Center <br />Co-located with the new Gravelly Hill Middle School in western Orange <br />County, this soccer complex will feature five full size soccer fields <br />(including one championship field) and a practice field, along with <br />concession area. <br />Pending Master Plans <br />Millhouse Road Park <br />69-acres adjoining Duke Forest on Millhouse Road north of Chapel Hill. <br />Master plan design TBA. <br />Upper Eno Preserve Public Access Areas <br />A future nature preserve (352 acres acquired to date) located west and <br />southwest of Hillsborough; public access areas for trails and low impact <br />recreation are tentatively planned for two or more locations (Seven•-Mile <br />Creek, McGowan Creek). <br />12 <br />