I'm pretty partial to Seven Hills and the old sledding hill. Do they even operate the tow rope anymore? I imagine liability insurance would cost the County a ton. I do have some of my best memories growing up of spending a Saturday or Sunday afternoon hitting that hill time and again. Always a roaring fire and hot chocolate waiting in the shelter house, too. We were very lucky to have the sledding setup at Seven Hills.
My favorite park has always been the Spring Lake gravel pit. I'm sure that no other gravel pit in Greene county has brought more couples together than Spring Lake.
Here's how I would rank the top 4: 1 - Hyde Park. Nice setting and not many people go there. Oak trees everywhere and really nice toilets for a park. Hey, that makes a difference! 2 - Squirrel Hollow. Very pretty park, but the access to the park is pretty poor. If you can put up with that, then the park is really worth the trip. Very cool old shelter house that is not used too much these days. 3 - Seven Hills. Not a lot there, but has great potential to be developed. Maybe a few walking trails throught he trees. 4 - Spring Lake. Okay park. Getting better as they let the trees fill in the old tent camping areas. Won't make anyones list as most beautiful, but you can enjoy what is there pretty much by yourself.
Just a quick comment or two on Hyde Park. We editors visited that park last summer, and found it was a very well-kept, pretty location. Unbelievably, when we asked a current Jefferson Chamber of Commerce member if he knew where Hyde Park was located or how to get there, he didn't.
Obviously, these parks suffer from a total lack of publicity.
Calling Spring Lake a gravel pit is like calling Lake Meade a river. It might have been a gravel pit in the 1950's (I'm not sure), but I've seen lots of gravel pits and they are a lot deeper and smaller than Spring Lake.
If you insist on referring to Spring Lake as a gravel pit, you better be at least 75 years old.
Even growing up in the 60's, nobody called that spot a gravel pit. That's OK, though. Nobody refers to the Ledges as that great Mesozoic swamp.
If you want to see a gravel pit, let me show you some current locations and you decide.
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McMahan Access?? Is that a Greene County Park? I would vote for it!!!
You know, if you want that to be a park, then it's a park.
I'm going to have to repeat myself and vote for Squirrel Hollow, even with the underground cave near the latrine.
I'm pretty partial to Seven Hills and the old sledding hill. Do they even operate the tow rope anymore? I imagine liability insurance would cost the County a ton. I do have some of my best memories growing up of spending a Saturday or Sunday afternoon hitting that hill time and again. Always a roaring fire and hot chocolate waiting in the shelter house, too. We were very lucky to have the sledding setup at Seven Hills.
My favorite park has always been the Spring Lake gravel pit. I'm sure that no other gravel pit in Greene county has brought more couples together than Spring Lake.
Hey, Fae! What about Perkins Pond?
For those who might know- What was the name of the fenced turnout across from Perkins Road 1/2 mile south of Bruce Hadley's place?
I'm pretty sure that's just a part of Seven Hills.
Until this blog started, I had never heard of anyone calling Spring Lake a "gravel pit".
Some one needs to tell me when Spring Lake was an actual operating gravel pit - it was obviously long before I remember.
Fae, there is no way you are that old.
Spring lake is actually a gravel pit, dug and mined for gravel used for sub-base for highway 30 when it was first constructed.
Here's how I would rank the top 4:
1 - Hyde Park. Nice setting and not many people go there. Oak trees everywhere and really nice toilets for a park. Hey, that makes a difference!
2 - Squirrel Hollow. Very pretty park, but the access to the park is pretty poor. If you can put up with that, then the park is really worth the trip. Very cool old shelter house that is not used too much these days.
3 - Seven Hills. Not a lot there, but has great potential to be developed. Maybe a few walking trails throught he trees.
4 - Spring Lake. Okay park. Getting better as they let the trees fill in the old tent camping areas. Won't make anyones list as most beautiful, but you can enjoy what is there pretty much by yourself.
Just a quick comment or two on Hyde Park. We editors visited that park last summer, and found it was a very well-kept, pretty location. Unbelievably, when we asked a current Jefferson Chamber of Commerce member if he knew where Hyde Park was located or how to get there, he didn't.
Obviously, these parks suffer from a total lack of publicity.
Hendersmoke - 'scuse me, Henderson Park was a great place to throw a frisbee and do whatever before school back in the day.
I remember it now, that's why I got up at 5:30 for my 8:00 class.
Calling Spring Lake a gravel pit is like calling Lake Meade a river. It might have been a gravel pit in the 1950's (I'm not sure), but I've seen lots of gravel pits and they are a lot deeper and smaller than Spring Lake.
If you insist on referring to Spring Lake as a gravel pit, you better be at least 75 years old.
Even growing up in the 60's, nobody called that spot a gravel pit. That's OK, though. Nobody refers to the Ledges as that great Mesozoic swamp.
If you want to see a gravel pit, let me show you some current locations and you decide.
It's a gravel pit.
I agree with Fae.
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