Lions Club Roadside Park — Attraction in Mount Vernon

I stopped there to use the bathroom. There was an overwhelming funny smell as soon as I opened the door. Probably drugs. And in the parking lot were several cars with people sitting in them looking like they couldn't sit still. Sometimes crouching down out of sight. I'm thinking those were people using drugs in their cars. Especially since a couple of them had so much stuff in them, the people barely fit. And there was a van parked there that had a tarp covering a mound of stuff on top of it that was as tall as the van itself! I would not bring my kids here to play. Where the people in their cars probably doing drugs were parked was where you have to walk past with your kids to get to the playground. It's a scary world we live in and places like these make me want to go live off grid somewhere with a gun for my...

We have driven past this park several times and always think of stopping by. Today we did.

The place was great! Took our doggie to the river's side and we loved it. The water was perfect, as was the current. It kept the water clear and was just strong enough to have fresh water rushing past the whole time.

Fish were jumping outta the water and the coarse sand was easy to shake off Bessie, our dog.

It wasn't as clean as we would have liked to see it. Lots of people left garbage laying on the "beach". Unfortunate but true. Someone left a bucket of discarded crabs leaving the place to stink...badly!

There is a new 9-hole frisbee golf course which can't really be used because cars park next to the baskets.

We will come back...

This is really one of the only places in Mount Vernon that has warm water. The little park is quite beautiful and "parks people", keep it clean. Being one of the "homeless since Covid" crowd, i really gotta thank Mt Vernon, Parks Staff, and the tax payers and Lions Club people, for this handy, beautiful, and very clean little wayside park(pretty much in the middle of town) for all the park amenities. I'm talking specifically of the hot water. So THANK YOU to ALL you guys and gals who allow everyone, homeless or not, to use this park to rest and clean up. God...