Author Archives: Scott Reston

Historic Oak View County Park

By Scott Reston | Published: January 21, 2010

Less than 5 miles from downtown Raleigh, you can find Wake County’s largest grove of pecan trees on this 19th century historic farmstead.

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Greystone Recreation Center

By Scott Reston | Published: December 15, 2009

Raleigh’s newest park is the city’s first with an indoor playground.

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Walnut Creek Wetland Center

By Scott Reston | Published: November 20, 2009

A modern, sustainably-built education center lives at the heart of this 59-acre wetland area in downtown Raleigh.

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Hiking at Falls Lake

By Scott Reston | Published: November 5, 2009

Did you know that there is a 20+ mile long hiking trail in North Raleigh? Great for fun hikes with families or longer multi-day trips, the South Shore trail at Falls Lake is great destination for hikers of all skill-levels.…

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Honeycutt Park

By Scott Reston | Published: October 18, 2009

Honeycutt Park is a fairly new park in North Raleigh that offers some nice play options and holds the key to greenway connections coming soon.

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Camping at Falls Lake

By Scott Reston | Published: October 12, 2009

This weekend, I took my almost-eight-year-old son for his first camping trip.  Some long-time family friends of ours have kids that are close in age to our children. We gathered the two families for a dinner including hot dogs roasted…

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Blue Jay Point County Park

By Scott Reston | Published: September 28, 2009

Blue Jay Point is one of my family’s favorite parks. Playground, hiking trails, sports fields, environmental education – Blue Jay Point has it all.

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Cedar Hills Rotary Park

By Scott Reston | Published: September 9, 2009

You may only know the Cedar Hills Rotary Park by the sign posted on Spring Forest Road near the intersection with Falls of the Neuse.  If you’ve never explored this park, you’ve missed out on a nice neighborhood park with…

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A Playground, Built in One Day

By Scott Reston | Published: August 31, 2009

On Saturday, August 29th, at eight in the morning, more 200 volunteers gathered in an empty field at the Green Road park in Raleigh. By the end of the day, the neighborhood had a new playground to swing, slide and…

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E. Carroll Joyner Park (Wake Forest)

By Scott Reston | Published: August 10, 2009

I typically feature only Raleigh parks, but branched out this weekend to check out Wake Forest’s E. Carroll Joyner park. Joyner Park is a 117 acre park about a mile east of US 1.

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