Gold Medal Park

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Minneapolis opened the 7.5-acre Gold Medal Park in May 2007. It consists of a 32-foot-high mound, reached by a spiral walkway rising out of a green lawn with 300 trees. The park, just east of the Guthrie Theater, provides the Mill District neighborhood with some rare green space.^[1]

Landscape architect, Tom Oslund, reworked what was once a parking lot next to the Guthrie Theater. He said his design was inspired by the Dakota Indians’ burial mounds found throughout Minnesota. Although the new park was completed in the Fall of 2006, its true debut didn't happen in until the spring of 2007.^[2]

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