Friday, May 28, 2010

Jerry Burrell Unity Park

This is a large park with many quality features for small children as well as adults.
A community organization raised $80,000 to purchase a new playground for the park. It was installed on May 22.
A nice little area for tykes. A safe mulch surface

Beautiful old tree provides some welcome shade
A play fountain, no operating hours were listed. Unknown functionality


The two basketball courts in this park are in good shape. This one even has some earthen bleachers on the north side.

Uncle Bob is watching your children.

Site of the new playground.

Unnecessary strip of tarmac, but decent mulch mat. It should be thicker.

This slider is missing a handle. This makes it inoperable for kids.
A nice little fenced off tyke area. No mulching, but no hard surfaces were observed.
Most apparatus in this area could use a fresh coat of paint.
The essential geodesic dome

Fresh paint please.
Two more City tennis courts with out nets.

City workers trying to make some sense of all the new parts.
Here is an example of the damage trees can do to tangible property. Although the tree that fell was not a City tree, it provides another reminder that tree health is important to maintain in highly trafficked areas.

This is the second basketball court, again it is in good shape.

It looks like water would pool up around this merry-go-round after rains. Some leveling and mulching would help.


A nice gazebo, but it is inaccessible from this side. It does not need to be locked.