The 3,200-dunam park will have facilities for sports, camping, and open-air event and pedestrian and bicycle paths in open spaces and woodlands.
The Jerusalem Regional Planning and Building Board has decided to deposit two plans for a metropolitan park in Emek Ha’arazim, west of Jerusalem. One plan is withing the Jerusalem municipal jurisdiction and the other is within the jursidiction of Mevasseret Zion. The Jerusalem Development Authority, Jewish National Fund (JNF), and the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority initiated the Emek Ha’arazim Park.
The plans covers 3,200 dunam (800 acres). The Emek Ha’arazim Park will have a range of recreational activities, including sports facilities, sports challenges (such as climbing walls), a water park, camp sites, a horse ranch, and an open air events site. The plans also propose extensive open areas and woodland in the Emek Ha’arazim valley and slopes for pedestrian and bicycle paths. The recreational uses of the park were chosen on the basis of surveys conducted by the Jerusalem Development Authority.
The Emek Ha’arazim Park plans are part of a system of metropolitan parks for western Jerusalem, including the Emek Motza (Beit Zayit) Park and Refaim Park. The Emek Ha’arazim Park will have the most extensive developments and highest level of activities.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on December 4, 2005