Your favorite parks

[BmillsSkier]

Recently on one of the socials I came across a page that people post up pinned locations and a pic or two of their favorite park. It got me going down a rabbit hole checking a lot of these places out; and found some cool parks I'd otherwise never know about.

They're not all national or state parks, they're not all epic vistas or soaring peaks, and I'd say almost a 3rd of them aren't even out there in nature, but in the middle of a city. I've learned about provincial parks with incredible beauty and also about park so small it's just a little bench next to a brook hidden in a grove in the middle of a major city - and everything else in-between.

So what are your favorite parks? Post em up and share some cool spots we might not otherwise know about.

[JimmyCarter]

In and around Boston harbor you have the harbor islands parks (national and state) as well as one-off parks run by the Trustees (eg Misery islands)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bost...and_State_Park

Some are accessible by park ferries and some are BYOBoat. You can pull up and hike, sit on the “beaches”, check out old forts and lighthouses, and visit the site of Shutter Island.

[BmillsSkier]

A favorite of mine is Hunting Island State Park off the coast of Beaufort, SC. Lowcountry untouched by development. Cool camping, boneyard beaches, intercoastal marsh and miles of beach. (pics from the park website)

[old goat]

Pretty much all of them in or west of the Rockies, and Sleeping Bear Dunes in MI,

[m2711c]

whitaker park. when the spinster whitaker died she left her fathers farmland that contained an awesome gorge with swimming holes and waterfalls to the town. the town never really promoted it or hired any kind of park ranger and as a kid we had the whole thing to ourselves. nice campground, picnic area and ball fields with a great view of the black river valley. they also had a bandstand with power. my friends with bands would just set up and play on the weekends and we’d all campout, get sloshed and sit in the whirlpools.


good times were had.





















shit used to be free. state park up the road would send someone round once a week to pick up the trash. now they want 10 buck ta camp!.!

just one more reason why the 70s were much fuckin’ better than today.


http://whitakerpark.com/


and if you want the same kind of geological shit but with a big heapin’ helpin’ of state park ranger “respect mah authorita” bullshite in your face all the time for much more money, you can go just up the river to Whetstone Gulf State Park.









fact.

[singlesline]

Rock Island State Park in Wisconsin.

1.5 sqmi island located off the tip of Door County. You have to take a car ferry to Washington island, cross to the other side, and then take a passenger ferry to Rock Island. They have 5 remote campsites that are great (skip the campground area...you didn't go all that way to be surrounded by people...)

There's a cool old boathouse left over from when a rich guy built stuff out there, a lighthouse that does tours sometimes, rest of the island is undeveloped other than some relics. Access to Lake Michigan from your site. Just a nice peaceful place to hang out for a weekend or so.