Egans Creek Park, designed to accommodate people with disabilities, set to open in Fernandina Beach

The organization 8 Flags Playscapes made it their mission to create a park right on Egans Creek that people with and without disabilities can enjoy.

The organization partnered with the city of Fernandina Beach and broke ground on the project last year.

“We would raise over 50 percent of the value of the park if the city would do the other remaining 50 percent,” said Trey Warren, vice president of the organization.

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The park cost over $400,000 and organizers applied for grants and collected donations.

Action News Jax followed the progress of the park for the last year, when it was nothing but dirt. Since then, they’ve added a fitness trail around the park, and an area for meditation.

“You enter in to the meditation garden and the plants kind of define the way you move through it,” said project architect Benjamin Morrison.

There’s an Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant bird watching station, and even a kayak launch.

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“It offers mechanisms that an individual with disabilities can transfer onto, out of the wheelchair and get in and out of kayaks,” Morrison said.

They’ve also added exercise equipment that people who are wheelchair-bound can use.

“We’ll have demonstrations of all fitness equipment so people can learn one on one,” board member Lynn Tennille said.

The park will also be open 24/7.

“Florida Power and Utilities partnered with us and purchased about $30,000 of state of the art LED lighting around the park,” Morrison said.

There’s also a pet station, where they can get fresh water.

The park opens tomorrow at 4 p.m.

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