1881 Park is a signature community destination within the Windler master-planned development in northeast Aurora, built around the historic homestead of Henry and Anna Windler. The park celebrates the agricultural history of the site while introducing a modern, regenerative landscape focused on community gathering, recreation, food production, and connections to the surrounding High Plains environment.
Western States Reclamation played a major role in delivering the site and public improvements associated with 1881 Park. WSR’s work included grading, utilities, landscaping, irrigation, restoration, and related public infrastructure, requiring close coordination across an active development with multiple contractors, designers, and utility stakeholders.
The completed landscape is designed to connect the history of the Windler homestead with the future of the surrounding community. Prairie-inspired planting, native and adapted landscapes, agricultural elements, open space, and gathering areas create a park that feels rooted in the site rather than separate from it.
For WSR, the project demonstrates the ability to move between heavy site construction and finished landscape work within one coordinated effort. Grading, underground infrastructure, irrigation, restoration, and landscape establishment all had to come together around ongoing development activity to create a durable public space built for long-term use.

Windler Public Improvement Authority

Aurora, Colorado