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Historic Oak View County Park

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

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

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Walnut Creek Wetland Center

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

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Honeycutt Park

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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Blue Jay Point

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

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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E. Carroll Joyner Park (Wake Forest)

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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Brookhaven Nature Park

One of my inspirations for creating this blog is the adventure of finding out about parks that I’ve never visited. Today, I checked out the Brookhaven Nature Park, hidden just off Gleenwood Ave a bit west of Crabtree Valley Mall.…

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Chavis Park

Pullen Park is known for it’s carousel, but many people don’t realize that there’s another antique carousel in downtown Raleigh.

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Laurel Hills Park

Laurel Hills Park is a staffed park that includes a community center, basketball courts and lit athletic fields. It is also the home to the amazing, handicapped-accessible All-Children’s Playground.

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