The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) celebrated its centennial anniversary by honoring with centennial medallions those places in the environment

“…that have inspired their communities, shared their serenity, and contributed to our culture. We want to recognize these national contributions, as well as significant local contributions, by hundreds of landscapes all across America.”

Landscapes selected by the ASLA included New York City’s Central Park, San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square, Sea Ranch, and the Monterey Peninsula Recreation Trail. The City of Monterey, the Monterey Regional Peninsula Park and Open Space District, other project partners and Callander Associates as the project’s landscape architect, collaborated for a four-year period to provide the Monterey Peninsula with this outstanding example of the designed environment. This multi-phased, inter-agency project carefully and thoughtfully incorporated stakeholder and public input into an urban waterfront trail corridor that continues to serve the public in ways far beyond the original goals and vision.