After approximately four and one half years of planning, designing and construction, Marshall County’s first full amenities park, Mike Miller County Park, opened to the public in September 2000. Before the park came to be, the Fiscal Court appointed a five-member park board to assess the recreation facilities within the county and the cities of Benton, Calvert City, Hardin and also the two state parks in the county.
The Park Board held a series of public meetings to determine peoples’ desires for additional recreational opportunities and traveled to other parks with outstanding facilities in the state of Kentucky and 
surrounding states. Armed with the information they collected, the board began a search for property. The perfect property would be centrally located and large enough for the development of recreational facilities, but not an excessive expenditure.
The Park Board recommended the purchase of an eighty-acre site in the community of Draffenville, located on U.S. Highway 68 West, near the interchange of the Purchase Parkway. In 1997, the county purchased the property. The Park Board then commissioned Brandstetler-Carroll of Louisville, Kentucky
for a master plan of the park’s development. Construction began in the winter of 1998 and approximately two and one half years later, the park was opened for public use.
Park facilities include an 18-Hole Disc Golf Course, Soccer fields, Baseball Fields, Batting Cages, Basketball Courts, Tennis Courts, Sand Volleyball Court, Playgrounds, Five-acre Stocked Fishing Lake, Pavilions and Restrooms; and last but not least, a two-mile long Walking Trail with inclines and flats.
