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Monday, May 2, 2016

Alfonsa McKenna-Luis Redondo Park

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Though the solid fences and walls around this parklet may look a bit forbidding, they actually make it a safe place to bring kids — or your ...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Sit a while at 36th & Kino

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Here's a little spot that's not worth a long drive to reach. But if you're visiting the (soon-to-be) UA Tech Park at The Bridges...
Monday, February 1, 2016

Your own parklet

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Like pocket parks? Why not get together with your neighbors — or your neighborhood association — and make a special spot? It can be more t...
Monday, January 4, 2016

Hunting for parklets

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I didn't come across any new small parks during December, so I don't have any to post here for January. I've done some searching...
Monday, December 7, 2015

Take a break at Grant-Campbell Park(let)

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Just northwest of the traffic-clogged Grant-Campbell corner is this patch of green: Logically enough, its official name is Grant-Campbell...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Peaceful corner at Govinda's

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Maybe you've come to Govinda's to chow down on their vegetarian buffet or for one of the festivals. (For more about Govinda's, s...
Monday, October 5, 2015

Labyrinth at Unity of Tucson

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There are lots of labyrinths around Tucson; we can't list them all here. (If you'd like to find others, try the Worldwide Labyrinth...
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Monday, September 7, 2015

Plaza Palomino

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Although Plaza Palomino is a shopping center, it's also a place with benches for sitting (many of them shady at different times of day):...
Monday, August 3, 2015

Women's Plaza of Honor

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The University of Arizona campus has lots of surprises scattered around (and in) its buildings. Between Centennial Hall and the south side o...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Fixed location for El Parque de Orlando y Diego Mendoza, and others

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The other two blogs I contrubute to, The Tucson Murals Project and Tucson Mailbox Art , have a place near the bottom of each entry that giv...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Miramonte Park(let)

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This place is called a “park,” but I'd call it a pocket park. It's packed with benches, a table with a checkers-chess board, a sandb...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Aviation Bikeway parklets

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Just north of the high-speed road that connects downtown Tucson with Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is a separate path that does the same thin...
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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...