Ashler Hills Park
Project Phase
Project Summary
This project will make a series of improvements to 68th Street between Indian School Road and Thomas Road with the goal of improving safety, connectivity, and the quality of life for residents, students and visitors by completing critical north/south regional bike lanes on this major roadway.
The project reduced the four-lane roadway to two lanes and add bike lanes, pedestrian improvements, left turn bays and intersection improvements at Osborn Road. The project added two Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB) crossings, one at Avalon and the other at 2nd Street. The project kept the on-street parking on 68th Street north of Osborn Road and add turn lanes.
The goal of this project was to give pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers comfortable space for each transportation mode and improve local and regional connectivity by linking to the existing bikeway and planned network in the area.
Project Information
Budget: $2,000,000
Sponsoring Division: Transportation
Funding Source: Bonded
Additional Funding Sources: Bond 2000, General Fund, CIP Stormwater Utility Bill, in cooperation with Flood Control District and Salt River-Pima Indian Community
Project Update
Ashler Hills Park opened in February 2025. Located at Ashler Hills Drive and 74th Way, it is Scottsdale’s northern most park.
Features of the 17-acre park include, open turf play areas, a shaded playground, restrooms, lighted sport courts for basketball and pickleball, walking paths and trails, and 70 lighted parking spaces.
Five public art panels are attached to shade canopies near the sports courts and were designed by Artist Mary Bates Neubauer. The naturally rusted steel panels will provide latticed patterns of light and shadow inspired by the Arizona cinquefoil, a shrubby native plant whose flowers have a five-leaf radial symmetry.
Funding for the park was approved by Scottsdale voters as part of the 2019 Bond election and the new park took 15 months to construct.
