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Forest Park Forever posted a whole bunch of drone photos of fall colors from above the park:







Lots more here:

https://www.forestparkforever.org/fall- ... ts2jx5esxj

Now that's pretty sweet!

Sunday is the last day for skating at Steinbeg Rink. 

framer wrote:The natural playscape area is making nice progress. It's pretty hard to photograph, and covers quite a large area, so these pics don't really to it justice. I think it's gonna be very popular:

Someone should get STL from Above to get some drone shots. Might capture it better.


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Reedy Press has released a new walking guide for Forest Park:

https://reedypress.mybigcommerce.com/fo ... JL_jY5qZ2M

I expected St. Louis to fare better in the parks department:

the Trust for Public Land 2020 ParkScore rankings: #13 St. Louis, MO

urban_dilettante wrote:I expected St. Louis to fare better in the parks department:

the Trust for Public Land 2020 ParkScore rankings: #13 St. Louis, MO

No surprise that lack of basketball courts hurt us. Also, how is there no public swimming pool/gym/ in Forest Park?


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^ pretty sure there were a number of public pools in the city when i was growing up. now it's just Marquette Park to my knowledge, and that one's only been re-opened for 4 or 5 years.

i guess i was most surprised that St. Louis ranks so low in acreage, but i don't really understand how they're weighting things (admittedly, i don't care to figure it out, either). St. Louis (62 sq. mi. land area) devotes 10% of city land to parks and gets a score of 32/100 in that category, while Minneapolis (54 sq. mi. land area) devotes only 5% more land to parks but gets DOUBLE that score (64/100)?

and NYC (303 sq. mi. land area!!!) devotes 21% of that land to parks? really?

apparently, having what is arguably the best city park in the U.S. doesn't mean much. i guess we really do need more green space. better tear some more sh*t down, stat.

urban_dilettante wrote:^ pretty sure there were a number of public pools in the city when i was growing up. now it's just Marquette Park to my knowledge, and that one's only been re-opened for 4 or 5 years.

i guess i was most surprised that St. Louis ranks so low in acreage, but i don't really understand how they're weighting things (admittedly, i don't care to figure it out, either). St. Louis (62 sq. mi. land area) devotes 10% of city land to parks and gets a score of 32/100 in that category, while Minneapolis (54 sq. mi. land area) devotes only 5% more land to parks but gets DOUBLE that score (64/100)?

and NYC (303 sq. mi. land area!!!) devotes 21% of that land to parks? really?

apparently, having what is arguably the best city park in the U.S. doesn't mean much. i guess we really do need more green space. better tear some more sh*t down, stat.

In terms of acreage for our parks, I feel that we do such a good job of utilizing acreage as usable space with purpose. My experience with many Seattle parks was that they were decent sized, but only slivers were available to be walked on. An example would be Ravenna Park near UW (perk of that is you get beautiful forest vibes).


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urban_dilettante wrote: ↑

May 27, 2020

and NYC (303 sq. mi. land area!!!) devotes 21% of that land to parks? really?

Maybe they include the entirety of Jamaica Bay as a park? Which would be a joke. 

Here in Minneapolis/St. Paul, they count all the land along the rivers and lakes as park land, which is why they are so high. I truly am not impressed with the parks here, as they don't offer anything like Forrest or Tower Grove Park, but I do enjoy hiking and biking along the river both in Minneapolis and STP.
They also charge people to park at many of the city parks here too, not cool.

^ pretty sure there were a number of public pools in the city when i was growing up. now it's just Marquette Park to my knowledge, and that one's only been re-opened for 4 or 5 years.

Cherokee Center in Benton Park has, or at least fairly recently had, an indoor pool. I'm not sure how many other rec centers have public pools though.

Is not the YMCA in Carondelet Park a joint community center? I believe it has a pool. Tower Grove had at least a wading pool. Not sure if it's still in use, but the basin and adjacent structure were still there last time I went through and looked. That's not a true swimming pool, mind. Just a shallow water feature for kids to kick around in. (Not much more than a glorified fountain, really. But one where you are encouraged to play.)

The Y in Carondelet does have both indoor and outdoor pools, but it is not exactly a public pool and that particular Y is quite expensive to join.

Forests Park Forever is seeking input for the renovation of the Tamm Avenue Playground. 

More info and a survey here:

 https://www.forestparkforever.org/tammp ... -390809325

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May 11, 2021

Was on a walk in FP and they were laying out flags and site plans for the Jefferson Lake project. 

That looks fantastic!  Will this also include any enhancements to Seven Pools (I believe FPF was working on that before, but last I saw it seemed work had stalled) or Bowl Lake?

-RBB

This is so random, but why doesn't Forest Park have an aquatic center? 

I was just thinking about this. Where in St. Louis City is there is a really nice aquatic center? 

There's one at Carondolet Park, right? But I don't know how nice that one is or isn't. 

KansasCitian wrote: ↑

May 11, 2021

This is so random, but why doesn't Forest Park have an aquatic center? 

I was just thinking about this. Where in St. Louis City is there is a really nice aquatic center? 

There's one at Carondolet Park, right? But I don't know how nice that one is or isn't. 

Aquatic Center? Carondelet Park has the Y, the same with OFallon Park. Both are referred to as the Park Name and Rec Plex.