{"id":24127,"date":"2025-01-06T23:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T06:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/driver-does-doughnuts-in-dolores-parks-causes-damage\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:49:05","slug":"driver-does-doughnuts-in-dolores-parks-causes-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/driver-does-doughnuts-in-dolores-parks-causes-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver does doughnuts in Dolores parks, causes damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9c079990-2267-4893-9f39-759711d87372&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Joe Rowell Park will feature drive-in movies this summer.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Joe Rowell Park will feature drive-in movies this summer.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of the town of Dolores<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>During the snowfall on Christmas Day, a driver in Dolores decided to do doughnuts in the grass at Joe Rowell Park, damaging the sprinkler system and destroying grass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember, these are your parks and your money that is being spent to repair the damage,\u201d a Facebook post from the town of Dolores on Jan. 2 read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe post got over 100 shares,\u201d said Dolores Town Manager Leigh Reeves. \u201cThe bottom line is, that\u2019s your taxpayer dollars we could be putting toward something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though the sprinkler system is turned off for the season, each sprinkler head costs $400 to repair. It\u2019s unclear the extent of damage at this time, Reeves said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes people will do doughnuts on the gravel part of the lot, which isn\u2019t as big of a deal,\u201d said Reeves. \u201cIt\u2019s a bigger deal when they get on the grass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The driver cruised through the soccer fields, which were maintained so well last season, Reeves called it \u201ca work of art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody has driven through the park since Dec. 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe they\u2019re just waiting for more snow,\u201d Reeves said.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves added that someone had done this at Flander\u2019s Park and was chased off by a maintenance person, and someone might be doing this at Boggy Draw, too.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Dolores signed a contract with the Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office, though, so there are two officers on patrol in the town who would punish a driver that decided to do this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are doing what we can to identify the person(s) responsible,\u201d said Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin. \u201cThey could be charged with destruction of public property and reckless driving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you see this happening or have information, contact the nonemergency line of the Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office at (970) 565-8454.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>caught, the driver could be charged with destruction of public property and reckless driving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-24127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78412,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24127\/revisions\/78412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24127"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=24127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}