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National Demonstration Site Impact Reports
How Mount Berry Trailhead Park became a gateway to wellness.
In Rome, Georgia, a new play destination on the AdventHealth Redmond ECO Greenway is helping families move, connect, and make the trail part of everyday life.
Play On! NDS
Rome, Georgia
Opened March 2026
From Trailhead Investment to Public Proof
A playground can turn a trail stop into a family destination.
Mount Berry Trailhead Park pairs active play with one of Rome’s most scenic greenway entrances, creating a place where children can play while families pause, reconnect, and keep moving.
AdventHealth Redmond, the City of Rome, and TRED collaborated on a compact park designed around whole-person wellness. The play environment carries Play On! National Demonstration Site recognition, translating research into six essential movement experiences: swinging, sliding, climbing, brachiating, spinning, and balancing.
- Give children a reason to move while caregivers recharge.
- Add a family-friendly gateway to Rome’s riverfront trail network.
- Use outcomes reporting to measure reach, activity, and community value.
Project photography courtesy of IMPACT Parks.
Why Local Context Matters
Rome built play into a landscape already made for movement.
The Mount Berry Trail follows the Oostanaula River past rolling hills, pasture, a pond, and wildlife. The new park gives families a playful reason to begin, end, or extend a greenway visit.
The trailhead sits at 130 Coligni Way, just behind the post office and minutes from downtown Rome. Its location connects a neighborhood-scale play space to a larger regional system for walking, running, biking, transportation, and recreation.
A scenic riverside route with minimal elevation change.
Completed through the Mount Berry Connection in 2024.
The ribbon cutting welcomed the community to the new park.
Community Example
Mount Berry Trailhead Park brings whole-person wellness to the greenway.
Bright blue and green play features, swings, climbers, slides, overhead activities, and resilient surfacing create a compact destination that feels connected to the woods and trail around it.
The result is intentionally multigenerational: children get a rich movement experience, caregivers gain a comfortable place to pause, and trail users discover another reason to make the greenway part of their routine.
Open to the public
Play On! designation
Trail-connected play
1National Demonstration Site designation
6Essential active-play movement elements
60+Days measured in the baseline report
130Coligni Way, Rome, Georgia
Project Film
See how a trailhead became a destination for families.
Experience the story behind Mount Berry Trailhead Park and discover how AdventHealth, the City of Rome, and community partners transformed a simple trailhead into a destination that encourages movement, connection, and whole-person wellness.
Reported Impact
Mount Berry is attracting more visitors, more often.
During the first 60 days after opening, March through May 2026, the park recorded twice as many visits as the same period one year earlier.
Prior year1,600
After opening3,500
Prior year2,400
After opening4,800
Prior year345
After opening820
Visitors stayed nearly as long as the prior year’s 48-minute average while total use doubled.
Visitor estimates are generated from anonymized, aggregated mobile-location data. No personally identifiable information is included.
Destination Reach
Rome is the home base, but the park reaches beyond the city.
Most visitors began their trip within Rome, while nearly one in five came from Silver Creek, elsewhere in Georgia, or out of state.
81%
Visitor starting locations
Rome, Georgia81%
Silver Creek3%
Other in-state13%
Out-of-state3%
This confirms the trailhead's growing destination pull.
Before visiting the park
Home
48%
Dining
21%
Shops
10%
Other
21%
After visiting the park
Home
44%
Dining
18%
Shops
10%
Other
28%
NDS Network insight: nearly half of visitors across the National Demonstration Site network plan additional spending while they are out.
Health and Economic Value
Active play is already creating measurable health value.
The Mount Berry experience combines low-to-moderate intensity play with moderate-intensity walking and jogging, turning one destination into a small ecosystem of movement.
The NDS health-cost model estimates savings from avoided disease treatment and improved worker productivity. For Mount Berry, the model projects an average of $2,055 in combined physical and mental health savings each month.
$2,055
Estimated average health savings per month
$1,410Physical health savings
$645Mental health savings
Playground redesigns have been associated with increased physical activity even one year after renovation.
Children using playgrounds with challenging elements were more likely to report feeling happy.
Children were more likely to play with others when playgrounds included challenging elements.
Health savings are modeled estimates based on visitor activity patterns. Research insights summarize peer-reviewed studies and are not site-specific outcomes.
Data That Tells Your Story
Every National Demonstration Site receives reports designed for advocacy.
The reports connect design decisions, local context, visitor behavior, and health value so communities can show what happens after the ribbon is cut.
Initial Impact Report
Explores who the site may serve, how the project aligns with community needs, and what impact story the investment can begin to tell.
Baseline Outcomes Report
Measures early visitor trends, destination reach, activity patterns, and modeled health savings after the site opens.
Visitor Outcomes Report
Captures visitor demographics, self-reported activity, satisfaction, connection, and the ways people respond to the space.
See the Site
Designed for movement, connection, and an easy transition to the trail.
The compact layout brings classic play experiences into a wooded trailhead setting without losing sight of families, caregivers, or the landscape around them.
Free Planning Resource
Download the National Demonstration Site Network brochure.
Learn how evidence-based design, national recognition, and outcomes reporting can turn a great park project into a stronger public-impact story.
Use the brochure to start conversations with park boards, city managers, school leaders, health partners, donors, and community champions.
For Community Champions
Why become a National Demonstration Site?
Because the best park projects do more than check a box. They become proof points for healthier, more connected communities.
Design with purpose
Use research-based best practices for inclusion, active play, nature, pathways, or adult fitness.
Earn recognition
Position the project as a national model for evidence-based play and recreation design.
Gather insights
Use reports and visitor feedback to understand how the space is being used.
Share the impact
Support funding, communicate value, and advocate for the next community investment.
Start Your Impact Story
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