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Friday, April 3, 2015

Iron Horse park(lets)

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There are several dots of parkland just north of Broadway, east of 4th Avenue. They aren't directly on a city street, and the official a...
Friday, March 6, 2015

Next to the Corbett House

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This brick patio with shade (more when the trees have leaves), and a rare patch of green grass, are just northwest of the Tucson Museum of ...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Coming soon, we hope: Centennial Park(let)

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On the southwest corner of Main Avenue and Washington Street downtown is a (currently) empty lot with a sign: As the website says: “With...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Orlando y Diego Mendoza Memorial Park(let)

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While I was cruising the 2014 autumn Tucson Artists' Open Studios , I found a parklet between downtown and 22nd — at the corner of 8th S...
Friday, January 2, 2015

Plaza de la Mesilla

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You've probably seen the brightly-colored La Placita complex as you enter downtown on Broadway from the west. But maybe you rolled right...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Restored pocket park near La Placita

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Pocket Parks usually aren't very well advertised — if they're advertised at all. I have enough photos now to post an entry here once...
Friday, November 7, 2014

Tables, a library, and greenery

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On the south side of Arroyo Chico at Malvern — southwest of Broadway & Country Club, along the popular Arroyo Chico bike route — is a po...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Cesar Chavez Park

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This parklet is one of Tucson's smallest “official” parks. It covers an angled corner next to Five Points. There's one park bench u...
Monday, April 14, 2014

New parklet on North 6th

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There's no visible progress on this new pocket (very) park. A January 20, 2014 article in the Arizona Daily Star mentions the plans:  ...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Dunbar/Spring playground on Playable Parks blog

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I've just run across a blog that covered a pocket-sized playground in the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood . Click there to see the entry. T...
Monday, March 17, 2014

La Pilita Museum grounds

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Next door to the El Tiradito (pocket) shrine ... and just along Simpson Street from El Parque (pocket) de San Cosme ... are the grounds of t...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

El Tiradito

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The historic marker here explains this popular little shrine: This is the only shrine in the United States dedicated to the soul of a sinn...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Nice place for a break in Poets' Square

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Life has been busy and I haven't been out on my bike for far too long. That explains why I haven't been posting more pocket parks h...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Reid Park Rose Garden

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There are a lot of “parks within a park” inside Tucson's popular Reid Park. (You'll find several of them on this blog.) It's al...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Korean War Memorial

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On August 8, 2011, I posted photos of the plaques and other artwork at the Korean War Memorial ; you can click there to see that entry on th...
Monday, January 6, 2014

Sentinel Plaza

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Just across the Santa Cruz from the Garden of Gethsemane is Sentinel Plaza: A plaque near the entrance tells the story (click for a larg...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Garden of Gethsemane

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I last visited this special little place ( very small!) in 2007. It's an isolated spot just west of I-10. Though a sign at the entranc...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Parque de San Cosme

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Back on December 30, 2011, I posted an entry to the Tucson Murals Project blog about Parque de San Cosme , a new little park south of the c...
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Monday, December 16, 2013

Jacome Plaza

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November 24th, on the very familiar walk near the main library to the Tucson Museum of Art (where I volunteer as the museum's event pho...
Monday, December 9, 2013

Bicycle Park (and former air pump)

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As you may have seen on other blogs of mine , I ride my bicycle around Tucson's back streets to find art… and Pocket Parks. So, imagine ...
Monday, December 2, 2013

Sunny strip on 22nd

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Earlier this year (I think it was …), I noticed earth-moving equipment along the north side of 22nd between the railroad overpass and Tucson...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Veterans Memorial Plaza

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This plaza has benches along both sides of a curved wall. One side of the wall (see below) is lined with plaques — like the one on the righ...
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Monday, November 4, 2013

Feld Davis Park

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On December 19, 2011, I posted photos of a pocket park to the Tucson Murals Project blog (before I'd come up with the idea of this Pock...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Beautiful murals (and walking) at Santa Cruz River Park

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The Santa Cruz River Park is too big to be called a “pocket” park. But the walking trails connect to a central plaza that’s like a world of ...
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Sit on a Gila Monster, share a book

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It’s tucked away under a spreading mesquite tree, on the northwest corner of 10th Avenue & 2nd Street, in the art-rich Dunbar/Spring nei...
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Monday, October 7, 2013

Fabulous Feast (for the eyes and stomach :)

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If you're looking for a peaceful garden to sit and reflect, the space between the buildings at the Tucson Buddhist Meditation Center, Wa...