The city held two ceremonies: a "Fill the Lake" event at the recently completed Mize Lake, located on Mize Boulevard near K-10 Highway, and a ground breaking event for Lake Lenexa, which will be built at Monticello Road between 83rd Street and Prairie Star Parkway.

Lake Lenexa , the city's premier Rain to Recreation lake will be nearly 35 acres nestled in 240 acres of parkland that includes preserved woodlands and streamways. This project will include three wetlands, trails, a boat ramp for small, non-motorized boats, boardwalks and docks, stairs to the waters edge providing access to fishing spots and wildlife habitats, picnic shelters and restrooms, and a future amphitheater. Three miles of trails connect the lake to surrounding neighborhoods following protected streamways. The architecturally unique dam and spillway will be a visitation destination with cascading pools and a fountain that may be viewed atop a pedestrian bridge spanning the spillway. The lake and park amenities should be completed in the summer of 2006.

This state of the art project successfully delivers the Rain to Recreation Programs's goals of flood protection, natural stream preservation, improved water quality and new recreational and educational opportunities. Through this project, stormwater is transformed from a potential nuisance as damaging runoff into an environmental and community asset, solidly delivering Rain to Recreation...a promise kept.

Lake Lenexa Brochure

Lake Lenexa Overview

Lake Lenexa Park Plan

Lake Lenexa Trails Brochure