 In 1896, the city began to create access to the park, another area in which Shawnee was lagging behind the other two parks.River Park Drive was paved in 1899, but the Broadway entrance remained unfinished until 1914.The Olmsted firm initially advised the city not to build a golf course at Shawnee Park due to the "grave danger to visitors in the park and especially the children" but demand was such that the course was built anyway in 1927.