Chatwin Park

Located at Kings Ave & 13th St.

Chatwin Park is a simple one. It's a decent sized chunk of land sitting on a corner with a trail running through it, including a bridge over a small creek.

Good news! The railings of this bridge are very sittable. When there's a park without benches, it can be saved by a bridge. Sometimes the tops of the railings are pointy, and that's just disappointing. In addition to this bridge, Chatwin Park has several other options to make up for it's lack of benches, including the sign and the rocks in the first picture.

The rest of the space in the park is more or less flat with grass that's only sort of maintained and intermittent trees. This space would be an excellent place for a game of hide and seek. There's several of these trees growing out of nurse stumps:

They look like they might have caves perfect for people smaller than I am. Somebody who fits that criteria needs to go check that out.

PPR
Good: path, bridge with sitting railings, place to play hide and seek (and other games)
Bad: no benches, no dogs allowed
5/10

Ambleside Park

Everybody knows where Ambleside is. Everybody knows what's there. I work at Ambleside. Let me tell you how over Ambleside I am.

There's a bunch of sports fields. You can play sports there.

There's a snack bar with somewhat satisfying food for sale, but only during the summer. In the same building there are chronically damp change rooms. The building is basically delicious.

There's a playground. It's not my favorite playground, but it's alright I guess.

There's lifeguards on the beach to watch people swim in the swimming area. It's kind of nice that they make sure you don't die, I suppose.

There's a pier where people fish and a floating dock that only floats at high tide. There's also a fountain over in that area that kids like to swim in instead of the ocean.

And then there's Hollyburn Sailing Club. That's where I work. It's pretty great, actually. You can take sailing lessons there. Those are fun. You should try one.

But yeah... Ambleside... I've been there pretty much every day this summer. Who even cares anymore? Does somebody else want to review Ambleside for me?