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Paradise Park Land Purchases Completed |
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| Last of Forty Acres
Secured for Unique Nature Park |
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Looking
north, along a berm that divides wetlands from
forested landscape, a tree canopy walk offers this unique
perspective. At right, a path leads to the wetlands. |
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Paradise Creek Nature Park
will provide unique outdoor recreation, conservation and environmental
education opportunities as well as the only public access to Paradise
Creek. The park will be operated by the City of Portsmouth as a regional
park in partnership with the Elizabeth River Project, which is buying
the land and raising funds for park amenities.
Special thanks to the
following for assistance with Phase II purchase costs for the final
funding, before the launch of a Capital Campaign in 2008:
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Virginia Port Authority
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Virginia Land
Conservation Foundation
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TowneBank
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National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation
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National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration
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The Beazley Foundation
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The Phase Foundation
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Portsmouth Community
Foundation
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Portsmouth Partnership
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Nancy Chandler Associates
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Stewart Title
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Elizabeth River Title
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 The
park will be located on Victory Boulevard in the southeast quadrant of
Portsmouth, where the City has planned a public park for more than 40
years. For the Elizabeth River Project, the park will achieve goals of
inspiring long-term stewardship of Paradise Creek, the subject of five
years of intensive conservation and restoration including more than 20
projects and more than 200 acres in conservation/restoration.
Paradise Creek is a
1.9-square-mile tributary of the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River.
The nature park is the cornerstone project in the five-year watershed action plan to restore Paradise Creek.
Download the Paradise
Creek
Master Plan
Read our archived story of the
Park's beginnings.
Explore artists renderings and
descriptions of unique areas in the park
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