park Archives - GetGoing NC! https://getgoingnc.com/tag/park/ Explore the outdoors, discover yourself. Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:19:55 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 90 Second Escape: Garner’s White Deer Park https://getgoingnc.com/2012/04/90-second-escape-garner%e2%80%99s-white-deer-park/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=90-second-escape-garner%25e2%2580%2599s-white-deer-park https://getgoingnc.com/2012/04/90-second-escape-garner%e2%80%99s-white-deer-park/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:17:59 +0000 http://getgoingnc.com/?p=3876 Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, … Continue reading 90 Second Escape: Garner’s White Deer Park →

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Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a fluorescent bulb.

Today’s 90-Second Escape: Garner’s White Deer Park.

I love discovering a new park, and was especially thrilled a couple years back when my daughter Hana and I discovered Garner’s White Deer Park, which opened in 2009. The park had a nice path for cycling — a path that was recently connected to Timber Drive by a one-mile greenway — fun playgrounds and fields for open play. And should you get tired of this park, cross Lake Benson Road to Lake Benson Park.

I did a short film on the park after we discovered it, decided it was worth revisiting today.

Enjoy.

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]]> https://getgoingnc.com/2012/04/90-second-escape-garner%e2%80%99s-white-deer-park/feed/ 4 Holiday escapes: Hit your neighborhood park https://getgoingnc.com/2011/12/holiday-escapes-hit-your-neighborhood-park/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=holiday-escapes-hit-your-neighborhood-park https://getgoingnc.com/2011/12/holiday-escapes-hit-your-neighborhood-park/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:00:30 +0000 http://getgoingnc.com/?p=3374 Starting Dec. 19 and continuing through the end of the year, we’re suspending our normal programming to help those of you with kids on winter break find stuff to do. … Continue reading Holiday escapes: Hit your neighborhood park →

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]]> Starting Dec. 19 and continuing through the end of the year, we’re suspending our normal programming to help those of you with kids on winter break find stuff to do. Every day through year’s end we’ll throw out an idea to get you and your youngsters out of the house and, most importantly, have the little ones tuckered out upon your return. Consider it GetGoingNC.com’s gift to you.

Today: Hit your neighborhood park.

Last year, a postage stamp of a park — 11 acres — opened within walking distance of our house. It’s got limited green space — 1.4 acres — but it’s more than enough for a game of catch, Frisbee, family flag football or Whiffleball. It’s got a short — 0.4 mile —  paved walking trail — but it’s got some swerve and is good for a training-wheeled biker, a skateboarder or an inline skater. It’s got a modernistic playground that I have yet to tire of. I mean, that the kids have yet to tire of. And it’s got a small creek and little nature nooks ideal for in-depth, in-dirt inspection. In short, it’s a great two-hour escape guaranteed to have the entire crew nap-ready upon returning home. Chances are, there’s a similar park not far from you.

To find the park nearest you, contact your local parks & rec department, which you can track down using this list compiled by the North Carolina Recreation & Park Association.

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