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Monday, February 5, 2018

Christina-Taylor Green Memorial Park

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Here's a small(ish) park where you can celebrate 2018 without — Tucsonans hope — any more senseless gun violence. Before he sent me thes...
Monday, November 6, 2017

Pas de deux (someday, pas de trois?)

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The right edge of the photo above, at the corner of 4th Avenue and Stevens Avenue, shows two sculptures on pedestals. (The empty third pede...
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Monday, October 2, 2017

Christopher Franklin Carroll Centennial Park

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This place, squeezed between a street and a parking lot, has been a long time in the making. (Our February 20, 2015 article Coming soon, we ...
Monday, September 4, 2017

Keeling Desert Park(let)

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If you aren't looking north as you drive along this part of Glenn (just east of Stone), you probably won't notice this beautiful new...
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Monday, July 3, 2017

Shady and artistic spot in Dunbar/Spring

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How about exploring for some fun and funky art this Fourth of July? One of the best places in Tucson to find impromptu art is the Dunbar/Spr...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Pitch a horseshoe in this pocket park

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In a way, Reid Park is a collecton of Pocket Parks connected by lawns and trees. Here's one: Tucson Horseshoe Pitchers' Club: Th...
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Monday, April 3, 2017

PVNA's Pocket Park being developed

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The Palo Verde Neighborhood Association (from Speedway to Grant and Country Club to Alvernon) has a pocket park next to a Tucson Water well....
Monday, March 6, 2017

San Antonio Park

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More or less centered between Aviation Highway to the south and west, Kino Parkway to the east, and Broadway to the north, is this little ge...
Monday, February 6, 2017

Take a break on Marvelous Meyer

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Just south of the Convention Center — where the Barrio Viejo starts — after you walk past the historic Teatro Carmen, Meyer Avenue looks uni...
Monday, January 2, 2017

Shady benches and Little Free Library

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In the El Monte Neighborhood is this spot. It's shaded from the hot western sun. A Little Free Library is stocked with books; if you...
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Monday, October 3, 2016

Bike Church

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This is probably the smallest pocket park on this blog (so far). It's the Bike Church, built to honor bicyclists — mostly ones killed ...
Monday, August 1, 2016

Desert Sanctuary at Immanuel Presbyterian Church

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David Aber told me about this spot — on the east side of town, near 22nd & Harrison. It's almost three acres (350 x 350 feet) of de...
Monday, July 4, 2016

A pocket park in your complex

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As I've mentioned before , your neighborhood can set up a parklet to bring neighbors together… or just sit yourself… at almost no cost, ...