Cedar-Niles Park Site (Sub-Regional Park to be part of proposed Regional Park)
The following improvements are recommended:

• Build a new multi-use recreation center at this site in cooperation with municipality.
• Conduct an inventory and assessment of the natural resources leading to a management plan for implementation.
• Reserve as much of the site as possible and manage it with a spirit reminiscent of the resettlement period.
• Involve the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks and the City of Olathe in the planning process.
• Add hiking trails, interpretive signage and wildlife observation points.
• Build a new Prairie Interpretive Center building.
• Extend the Cedar Creek trail southerly to new community park near Spring Hill.
• Add eight new baseball fields.
• Construct 5 new picnic shelters.
• Encourage the State to expand its land holdings and cooperate in creation of a large regional park.

Ernie Miller Park (Sub-Regional Park adjacent to proposed Regional Park)
The following improvements are recommended:

• Remove non-native species, stabilize stream corridor banks and implement an upland management program for stormwater runoff to enhance the park's role as a nature park.
• Conduct an in-depth inventory and assessment of the park's natural resources and prepare a new management and restoration plan for implementation that manages and enhances existing plant communities and wildlife habitats.
• Increase volunteer participation in land management and stewardship processes.
• Construct a day camp facility and outdoor classroom.
• Enlarge the nature museum and education center, and add meeting rooms and picnic shelter.
• Improve the trails though out the park and connect the trail system to the Mill Creek Streamway Park.

Thomas S. Stoll Memorial Park (Sub-Regional Park)
The future planning, development and programming of this park should be undertaken cooperatively with the City of Overland Park. Because of the park's central location and proximity to the Community College, it is a viable site for one of the four proposed multi-use recreation centers. Additional improvements recommended include:

• Provide additional landscaping (including mature trees and shrub massings) to screen parking lots and portable comfort stations from neighboring residential areas.
• Add aquatic plants at the pond and shelves for aquatic plants to improved wildlife habitat and improve natural character.
• Enhance the appearance, natural character and sense of discovery for those using the lake by minimizing the use of rip-rap embankment and concrete walkway at the dam.
• Repair the path to the island.
• Improve the reservable shelter with the addition of modern comfort facilities similar to those at the program shelter.
• Alter the location of the park's main entrance road, presently extending through the middle of the park, to improve views from the road, make larger areas of the park available for facilities and passive landscapes and minimize intersections with pedestrian paths.
• Improve the softball complex with the addition of a new core area that includes concessions, restrooms and surrounding pavement and improved surface water drainage.
• Locate play equipment near landscaped areas to provide shade and improve the equipment to meet present ADA standards and increase interest.
• Make the shelter/maintenance facility at north end of the park less visible through the use of landscape screening.

Potential Regional Park (RP)
A major Plan recommendation is to create a fifth Regional park approximately 2,000 acres in area. This new park would combine additional land purchases with the District's Ernie Miller Park and Cedar-Niles sites with the Kansas Wildlife and Parks' Prairie Center and the City of Olathe's Prairie Center Park. An initial recommendation in the creation of this park is the preparation of a new master plan that would include the recommendations listed for Ernie Miller Park and the Cedar-Niles park site. Follow the links below for more information.