Proposed park would add trails, disc golf
Beyond this trestle is the future site of Otho Brown Park in which the city of Clinton hopes to build a new walking trail and put in two new disc golf baskets. (photo:Ben Pounds )
The new area, 6.492 acres, will offer additional walking trails and two new disc golf baskets.
Disc golf is played by trying to get discs in target baskets on poles.
Carden Farm Park already includes six disc golf holes, but the new ones will bring the total up to eight.
The city plans to cut down some of the saplings on the site but keep the larger trees.
The new area will also have its own parking lot, although people will be able to access both parks from both ends.
The city plans to get $5,000 from the state of Tennessee, while matching it with $5,000 from the city’s general fund and a land match.
These details were all part of a presentation that Recreation and Parks Director Jason Brown gave to the public and the Clinton Recreation Advisory Board, which voted to pursue the grant at its March 12 meeting at the Clinton Community Center.
“It’ll be a neat addition to Carden Farm,” Brown said of the future development. He said the new baskets were likely to make the disc golf course more popular.
The city will call this area, adjacent to the existing Carden Farm Park and just past a railroad trestle, Otho Brown Park after the father of Cathy Brown, who donated the land.
However, the city failed to secure a grant for this same project in 2025.
Taylor Cullison, Clinton’s recreation coordinator for programs, told The Courier News that the city likely failed to get the grant because it was still finishing renovations to the Clinton Municipal Swimming Pool, which also relied on a state grant. She said she believes that the state awarded the grant that year to a city that didn’t have an ongoing grant-funded project.
Clinton City Manager Roger Houck said it will likely be autumn by the time the state decides whether to award the grant to Clinton for Otho Brown Park.
