Greenville's Pocket Parks
The Children's Park
Do you know Linky Stone Park?
It’s a quiet garden – peaceful and serene. It’s like walking around in the pages of a story book. A fairy tale, actually. I love the trees and the bright, beautiful flowers and all the colorful benches. As you enter the park, there is a white picket fence with Peter Rabbit’s name on it – everybody loves a white picket fence. And if you’re like me and love the story of Peter Rabbit, you can look at pictures and read excerpts from the book on the stone wall.
Children love to walk through the rainbow row of flowers and play music on the dangling instruments. When was the last time you walked through a Gingerbread house? Now’s your chance, but watch out for the Wicked Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs! She’s right around the corner.
There was previously a parking lot right beside the park but that lot is no longer open. The River Street Parking Garage though is close. Linky Stone Park is right on the Swamp Rabbit Trail, along side River Street Guide. You will need to cross Academy Street to reach the park from River Street’s parking area. https://kiddingaroundgreenville.com/childrens-garden-linky-stone-park
Neighborhood Parks
With 37 parks occupying more than 400 acres of land within the city, Greenville's green spaces and recreation opportunities are among the amenities that set us apart from other communities. And while it is important to create new spaces and opportunities as our city grows, we are committed to ensuring that our existing parks remain attractive and inviting and that quality public amenities are available to residents in every neighborhood in the city.
Many of these are neighborhood parks. These smaller parks offer much needed greenspaces to urban nighborhoods. Most have many of the amenties a larger park might offer, such as picnic tables, grills and play equipment.
Occasionally they only offer a quiet place to sit and enjoy nature.
Greenspace is Important
Just as growing communities need to upgrade and expand their built infrastructure of roads, sewers, and utilities, they also need to upgrade and expand their green infrastructure, the interconnected system of green spaces that conserves natural ecosystem values and functions, sustains clear air and water, and provides a wide array of benefits to people and wildlife. Green infrastructure is a community's natural life support system, the ecological framework needed for environmental and economic sustainability.
