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