The two-mile walkway hugs the Fort Lauderdale Country Club and golf course in Plantation's Country Club Estates neighborhood.
``It used to be all sand,'' Rosen said. ``I would bring sand all in the house. [The park] is just beautiful. Everyday, there are joggers, walkers. One lady is out here with her weights.''
Saturday, Plantation scheduled a ribbon-cutting ceremony and festivities to celebrate the renovations, which provided drastic improvements to a smaller existing sidewalk around the golf course. The project took six months to complete.
Park features are two trailheads with benches, bike racks, and a shelter. Decorative pavers add color and texture to the rest areas. Low lights and a diverse mix of trees provide ambience along the eight-foot-wide trail. Plantation landscape architect Jeffrey Siegel designed the park's ``plant palette'' with plumerias, gumbo-limbos, Australian lancewoods, coconuts, and sabal palms.
Residents of Country Club Estates had a say in the park, too.
``It was a lot of involvement from the neighborhood,'' Siegel said. ``They had a lot of say in the design element. It was nice to see the city and neighborhood working together on a project.''
Plantation will build a similar park later this year called Central City Linear Park as part of a series of neighborhood improvement projects. It will wind along Sunrise Boulevard, south on Northwest 65th Avenue and continue to University drive along Northwest Fifth Street.
In the meantime, Bev Larson will spend her mornings jogging along the Country Club Linear Park path.
``It is awesome,'' Larson said. ``I feel like I live in a park now.''