I love this place. Its here for me everyday to look at something the rest of the world doesn't and won't have. Coast Redwoods are gorgeous things to crank your neck to watch.

Tl;Dr it's one of the most beautiful walks in town, but don't let your dog sniff along the duck pond unless you want a fish hook it isn't nose... It won't matter if all you're doing is walking the sky bridge tho...

With that said I'm not going there very much these days. I used to watch the newts and ducks but I keep finding fishing hooks along the fences where my dogs like to sniff and walk - like dogs do. I don't have to mention the lines being caught in that beautiful maple across the way and on the only Redwood on the duck island. Every time I go there, there is new fishing lines and hooks on the ground. I'm not being dramatic. It's not like a bunch at a time, but since I look after the dogs, I notice when a new one pops up. I go... went there every other day. I'd drive across town bc it's that easy and that special. When I walk in I say to my friend "not everyone has this" "we just get this, everyday" bc it's pretty easy to forget what we have here in Eureka, Humboldt. But it gets me down so much to see how easily people don't care or don't pay attention. The absolute amazing past time of fishing is such a cool idea, but it is not functional at the park. I hope the city will stop the fishing. It really gets me down to go into the woods and see the litter that inevitably gets in from the street or from your occasional cigarette butthead... But this fishing line issue is pretty bad. Ppl act as if a fishing pond is around every corner... Its that easy to not appreciate the unique opportunity given to us by stocking the pond. I just wish I could go there and not see fishing lines and hooks. At least you could have put out a trash can, not recycle bin, NEXT to and on BOTH SIDES, of the pond. Put buckets up specifically for lines and hooks. Ppl can't be bothered to walk to the other side of the parking lot. It was /hard enough for them to /pack in the lines, how can you expect them to walk all that way across the parking lot to throw them away in the only trash can inside the park.

Please. This experiment failed. Everyone that was a responsible fisher will have to give it up bc poor/absent stewardship from other fishers. I don't like going there anymore.