Grand Junction public library will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the development of Spring Lake Park in rural Grand Junction on Sunday, Aug. 10, at 2 pm in the library’s community room.
Alan Robinson, library director, will present a special program that looks at how the park was transformed in 1925 from a railroad gravel pit to a 200-acre resort featuring cabins, dance hall, bandstand, community kitchen, roller skating rink, baseball diamond and a swimming beach featuring two water slides, a bath house and a diving tower.
The park was a destination for visitors from Memorial Day to Labor Day, and the dance hall drew many well-known “big bands” of the era. Spring Lake was known for its special July 4th celebrations that attracted crowds as large as 25,000 people in the park’s heyday of the 1920s and 1930s. The event is co-sponsored by the Greene County Librarians Association and the Greene County board of supervisors. It is open to the public at no charge.
