Posted
on July 6, 2013
Some
city and town parks in the U.S. put on special events on this
day—check out yours to see if your community does.
Even
if your local parks aren't hosting events, you can still go enjoy a
lovely Saturday at the park! We are encouraged to use and support our
local parks—which means of course leaving it as nice (or nicer)
than we found it.
This
would be a perfect day to do a park clean-up.
I
think it would be fun to travel to every single one of your local
parks (hop, hop, hop) today. Take at least one photo per park, and
write notes to yourself so your remember which one has that great
climbing structure you didn't know about, say, and which has tennis
courts. One thing my family realized recently is that several of our city parks are connected by “wilderness” trails. We discovered this feature by accident when we saw a small sign at the back side of one of our parks. Now I am a lot more alert to try to read every sign at a park, in case we have been missing other “gems” like these pretty get-away-from-the-city trails!
Celebrate
your parks by mixing it up...
If
you normally use a park just to play baseball, see what you've been
missing in other corners of the park.
Have
you ever tried a “par course” or fitness trail at a park? It can
be a lot of fun to try each exercise station!
Check
geocaching websites to see if there are any caches to discover in
your parks. If not...consider making one!
Here
are more ideas.
http://www.natureme.net/most-out-of-urban-park-visit/
Also
on this date:
Plan ahead:
Check
out my Pinterest pages on July
holidays, historical
anniversaries in July,
and July
birthdays.
And
here are my Pinterest pages on August
holidays, historical
anniversaries in August,
and August
birthdays.
