FREEPORT – At a get-together featuring a campfire and s’mores, a local landscape architect will present options Thursday for the use of Freeport’s Leon Gorman Park, based on public comments made during an onsite meeting held last spring.

The session at the park, located off School Street near Bow Street Market, begins at 6:30 p.m. The park, given to the town in 2007 by Leon Gorman – grandson of L.L. Bean – had been intended as a skating rink. But few people have used it for that purpose, so town officials are looking for alternatives.

“This will be very informal,” Donna Larson, town planner, said Monday. “This is brainstorming, to get a vision. There’s no money set aside, there’s no plan yet to do anything.”

The little park includes a covered sitting area and a small pond in a gully created by storm water and a trail.

Travis Pryor, the landscape architect, will provide an overview of the information he gathered last spring. Pryor will have concept design posters for public viewing. He fielded many suggestions and questions during the spring meeting, and has them summarized. Among the suggestions made:

• Activities for older people.

• Screening of the stormwater structures at the back of Bow Street Market’s parking lot.

• Improved signage for no-smoking rules in the park.

• Additional trail connections along Frost Gully to U.S. Route 1, from Spring Street, across Bow Street to Quarry Woods and at the end of the park connecting to Freeport Conservation Trust property, the Harraseeket River and the Audubon property.

• Repair of the ice skating rink.

• Lack of visibility from Bow Street Market.

• Use for wedding parties, concerts and other pubic gatherings.

• Picnic area and bench seating on top of park slopes in adjacent flat areas overlooking the park.

• Concerns regarding vandalism, drug use, loitering, and trespassing on private property.

Pryor also will have photographs of how similar public areas are used in other towns, Larson said.

Anthony Johnson, assistant director of Freeport Recreation and Community Education, said that kids he speaks with favor a play area in the water.

“I think a water play park is a possibility, with splash pads,” Johnson said. “I think that would be a great draw, and it wouldn’t take up that much room. If there was a splash pad there, that would draw people. But it’s not cheap to put in.”

Johnson added that the park is a natural place for a trail connector, because of its proximity to other trails.

“There’s not a lot of land there,” he said, “but there’s a nice trail that loops around.”

The rec department’s Harraseeket Harriers use the trails for fall and spring practice, Johnson said.

As for trail connection, Al Presgraves, the town engineer, said that’s a good idea. But there are obstacles.

“Physically, it’s all doable,” Presgraves said. “We can tie the Bow Street tributaries to Frost Gully. But there’s a lot of things that would have to happen to build trails there, including rights of way and easements.”

Once there is more public input, Larson said, the town’s Municipal Facilities Committee could discuss options for Leon Gorman Park.

The rain date is Thursday, Oct. 16, at 6 p.m.