County Farm Park

It's nicely kept and it's large, but it's surrounded by busy roads so it's not very quiet. It's not completely natural but it's not totally fancy, curated, or manicured either. It's a nice picnic, walk for exercise sort of park. It's not like a typical city park where there are large open lawns and carefully tended, very large, old trees. It has no fountain, no statues, no stage. It does have some planted gardens which are nice and a play area for small children. It's not a country park with hundreds of acres of relatively unmanaged fields and forest either. It's slightly hilly, overgrown farmland on what used to be the edge of town. There is no water feature that I know of. It's a great place for a brisk walk or a picnic. It's not particularly good for getting away from the distractions of civilization because it's surrounded by city, nor is it good for relaxing while other people go about their business because it's too far from the urban center. They do have exercise stations on the walking trails so you can walk and do things like arm, stomach, and leg exercises every hundred yards along the way. There are plenty of picnic benches so it's a pretty good place to have a picnic, but you will have people walking around if you're there on an early evening or weekend. There is a good amount of parking, but I get the sense that more than half of the visitors walk or bicycle in from the surrounding neighborhoods. At one end of the park is a physical fitness recreation center that is operated by the county. On nice weekend days in the summer the parking lot fills up completely and you have to try to give parking somewhere else and walk a few blocks back to the park.