BAXTER — The newly opened Clearwater Park and Baxter Dog Park will have parking lot access at least until the snow flies.

Baxter City Council members met in a workshop session to consider closing the park during the winter to April 1, weather dependent. Historically, the city closes and locks bathroom facilities from Oct. 31 to April 1, depending on the weather situation. The city does not typically maintain the parking lots or the portable satellite toilets that do not have a skating rink and warming house with them.

City staff proposed keeping the parks open until the first plowable snow event, described as typically 2 inches of snow.

“Each winter we do receive some requests to plow and maintain parking lots of parks,” the Public Works Department memo stated. “The closing of park faci

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