Sights and Scenes: Boone Park

[thelakelander]

Straddling Little Fishweir Creek, Boone Park is a 28-acre park located within the Riverside/Avondale Historic District.

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[Charles Hunter]

Our neighborhood group would walk about one-and-a-half miles from our street near the old Rollerdrome.  Catch and release minnows in the creek (wonder what diseases we were exposed to? well, we survived!)

[Florida Power And Light]

Thanks to the Flood Prone Nature / lowlands wetland belt and flow- way the Park acreage was reserved from development.

And in the days before " Planners & Consultants", Genesis Group,Lewis Longman and Walker, Mayor Delaney/Trust For Public Lands,Lobbying Water Management District , minimal upland buffer width and RAP Civic and Enviro Awards, Florida Times Union enviro pieces by Bill Sweisgood and Ron Littlepage.

Thankfully

[duvaltilidie]

Still find it hilarious to this day that the animals on springs we played on as kids, which were removed some time in the 90's, were covered in lead paint. Have so many memories in that stretch of Riverside. First Coast Cross Fit was a daycare. We used to have story time at Willow Branch in one of the downstairs rooms while attending West Riverside from '87-'90 and lived on the corner of Cherry and Park. Boone Park was always my favorite Park as a kid and now I go riding through there on the bike.

[JeffreyS]

I think a few pics of the Tennis club would be proper for this article. The clay courts are well used and vibrant part of Boone park.

[thelakelander]

There are a few from a distance but I avoided taking shots of the the people playing on court.