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Parks Project

2010-10-07 : I've always wanted to go visit all the little parks near where I live, be systematic about it and make a big map with push pins and so on. Well, I'm doing it. I've got a map which I glued to a big sheet of foam board, and I'm going to see how many parks Katie and I can visit.

Park List

The location of a park is its center. Parks are ordered by radius, then azimuth. Parks in parenthesis are not labeled on map (Rand McNally 2008 "streets of Saint Louis").

#	Radius (mi)	Azimuth (deg)	Name	Community	Area (acres)	Visited Date	Comments
0 mi
1	0.5	35	Frederick S. Plant Park and Wildlife Sanctuary	Webster Groves	2.5	2010-10-11	Report
2	0.625	350	Larson Park	Webster Groves	15.1	2010-10-11	Report
3	0.7	135	(Ruhe Park)	Webster Groves	1.2	2010-10-15	Report
4	0.75	125	Webster Groves Memorial Park	Webster Groves	17.1	2010-10-15	Report
5	0.75	175	Southwest Park	Webster Groves	12.6	2010-10-18	Report
6	0.9	262	(Monaco Park)	Oakland	1.8		Report
1 mi
7	1	26	(Shady Creek Nature Sanctuary)	Webster Groves	6.1		Report
8	1	345	(McKee Park)	Webster Groves	0.2		Report
9	1.05	239	(Loewnau Park)	Oakland	0.9		Report
10	1.125	204	Sanders Park	Crestwood	10.6		Report
11	1.2	128	Barbre Park	Webster Groves	2.7		Report
12	1.25	206	(Ferndale Park)	Crestwood	0.6		Report
13	1.375	96	Blackburn Park	Webster Groves	36.1	2010-10-09	Report
14	1.375	340	Whitfield Park
15	1.4	15	Greenwood Park
16			(Glen Park)	Webster Groves			(1.39, 35.86)
17	1.6	227	(Backstoppers Park)	Oakland
18	1.625	5	Rockhill Park
19	1.625	19	Ivory Crocket Park	Webster Groves
20	1.625	31	Lorraine Davis Park	Webster Groves
21	1.7	72	(Gazebo Park)	Webster Groves			(check neighboring sculpture too)
22	1.7	323	Warson Woods Park
23	1.8	340	Hensley Park				(check also southwest corner)
24			(Brentwood Recreation Complex)	Brentwood
25			(Broughton Park)	Brentwood
26			(Hanley Park)	Brentwood
27			(Rodgers Parkway)	Brentwood
28	1.875	20	Brentwood Park	Brentwood
29	1.875	250	Fillmore Park	Kirkwood
30	1.9	344	Oak Haven Park
2 mi
31	2	224	Spellman Park	Crestwood
32			(Unreachable? Park)	Crestwood			near Spellman, see this
33			(Sappington House Park)	Crestwood			Grant's Trail and Sappington
34			(Barnickle Park)	Webster Groves			(2.06, 40.05)
35			(Margaret Atlanta Park)	Webster Groves			(2.07, 48.02)
36	2.1	62	Lockwood Park	Webster Groves
37	2.1	87	Paul C Wehner Sr Memorial Park
38	2.1	175	Whitecliff Park	Crestwood
39	2.1	212	Rayburn Park	Crestwood
40	2.1	344	Oak Trail Park
41	2.125	0	Stroup Field				(mislocated on map)
42	2.125	31	Norm West Park	Brentwood
43	2.125	79	Brinkop Park
44	2.125	232	Meacham Memorial Park	Kirkwood
45	2.375	52	Deer Creek Park	Webster Groves			"Rocket ship park"
46	2.375	72	Ackfeld Park
47	2.375	156	Ulysses S Grant State Historic Site
48	2.4	66	Harty Park
49	2.625	2	Tilles Park
50	2.625	196	Crestwood Park	Crestwood
51	2.76	37	Oak Tree Park	Brentwood	7.6	2010-10-14	Report
52	2.8	265	Kirkwood Park	Kirkwood
53			(McEntee Memorial Park)	Kirkwood
54			(Connor Park)	Kirkwood
55			(Walker Park)	Kirkwood
56			(Mitchell Park)	Kirkwood
57			(Grant's Trail Trailhead)	Kirkwood
58			(Ella and Charles E. Monfort, Jr. Memorial Park)	Kirkwood
59			(Historic Quinette Cemetary)	Kirkwood
60			(Kirkwood City Hall Memorial Walkway)	Kirkwood
61	2.9	28	Rosalie Eulalie Park	Brentwood
3 mi
62	3	25	Memorial Park	Brentwood
63	3.05	192	Claire Gempp Davidson Memorial Conservation Area
64	3.125	211	Eddie Park
65	3.3	156	Park
66	3.375	39	Lindberg Park
67	3.375	98	Cyrus Crane Willmore Park				Not sure where division is with River Des Peres Park.
68	3.375	117	Mathilda Welmering Park
69	3.375	216	Watson Trail Park
70	3.4	74	Lindenwood Park
71	3.5	247	Fireman's Memorial Park	Kirkwood			("Firearms Mem Park" on map!)
72	3.5	284	Pioneer Park
73	3.55	290	Harwood Park
74	3.625	87	Francis Park
75	3.625	225	Laumeier Sculpture Park
76	3.65	59	Ellendale & Arsenal Park
77	3.75	235	Powder Valley Nature Center
78	3.9	251	Meramec Highlands Quarry at Dee Koestering Park	Kirkwood
4 mi
79	4.125	155	Clydesdale County Park
80	4.2	236	Russell E. Emmenegger Nature Park	Kirkwood			(investigate Possum Woods Conservation Area and Emmeneger Nature Park Staging Area)
81	4.25	289	Des Peres City Park
82	4.4	52	Franz Park
83	4.4	74	Tilles Park
84	4.4	204	Grand View Park
85	4.5	168	Bohrer Park
86	4.5	240	Unger County Park
87	4.55	34.5	Oak Knoll Park
88	4.55	35.5	Tuscany Park
89	4.6	111	River Des Peres Park
90	4.6	128	Ohlendorf County Park
91	4.6	150	Green Park
92	4.6	234	Saint Louis Soccer Park
93	4.625	15	Charles A Shaw Park
94	(4.625)	246	Greentree Park	Kirkwood			mostly off map
95	4.63	62	Clifton Heights Park
96	4.875	64	Park
97	4.875	100.5	Saint Marcus Community Park
98	4.95	89.5	Sublette Park
5 mi (finished to here)
99	5	96	Joe Liesure Park
100	5.1	96	Christy Park

Activity

2010-10-07 : Glued map to foamboard. Drew circles around home every 0.25 miles, and drew azimuth lines every 10°. Marked parks on map out to 2.25 miles.
2010-10-08 : Finished marking parks out to 5 miles.
2010-10-09 : First official park visit. Visited Blackburn Park.
2010-10-11 : Visited Frederick S. Plant Wildlife Sanctuary and Larson Park
2010-10-12 : Visited Blackburn park (focusing on the bird sanctuary). Started to add missing Webster Groves, Oakland, and Kirkwood Parks. Added count and community columns.
2010-10-13 : Made report pages for more parks. Started looking up Crestwood parks.
2010-10-14 : Visited Oak Tree Park with Katie.
2010-10-15 : Visited Webster Groves Memoria Park and Ruhe Park with Katie.
2010-10-18 : Visited Southwest Park with Katie.

Useful sites: Google Maps API - Demo Gallery - Draggable Markers - Polygon Creator

Webster Groves: 17 parks - City of Oakland: 3 parks - City of Glendale: 0 parks - Kirkwood: 14(+1) parks - Crestwood: 6(+2) parks - Brentwoodwood: 9 parks - County and State Parks

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