Edgewood Park — Attraction in New Haven

Edgewood Park is a truly beautiful greenspace that also functions as an urban oasis for so many different types of fauna and flora. Walking through the trails is an enriching and grounding experience, Duck Pond is a lovely sight and so are the ducks, and of course you have the skate park on the north side and the playground towards the south.

The graffiti is not why I'm knocking a star, but it definitely deserves its own note. To me, it tells the history of this park and those that were here once upon a time. It's fascinating to me to see how people saw the world through graffiti.

The reason why I'm knocking a star is because the entirety of the recreation area to the west of the playground and West River, between Edgewood & Chapel, is unusable. It has been mowed when I was there a week or so ago, but it's still unusable as an outdoor recreation area, thanks to a solid half-inch of grass and what-not I have to step through throughout the entire area, and I was concerned for ticks and other bugs that I might bring home the entire time I walked through that area.

Overall, I would definitely come back here for the sights & sounds, a place to unwind, and also a place to work out; I find a lot of people do their morning...

My favorite walking spot in New Haven! Nice long wide paved path, usually not to many people there. If you start from Whalley, you first pass by tennis courts, usually people there enjoying themselves. Then exercise equipment.

Then a skate park, this is the one part that scares me, usually lower class people there, graffiti all over, a lot of noise...

Then you pass by a dog park. Then as you continue there many trees, some small pathways, that go to the sides, can walk along the river, there are some nice bridges, and built path ways. You pass under a street, there's too much graffiti on the tunnel/bridge. As you go, there is this huge pond, with ducks all over, nice bridges, seen people fish here before, don't know if they found anything or if it's even legal... But it's a really nice spot.

Further there's water shoots, where kids play in, and a play ground.

The ranger house and bathrooms appear to be permanently closed, but I don't know, forsure wasn't every opened whenever...

It’s a fairly typical city park, I think, with some lovely parts and some well maintained features, and other things that have fallen into disrepair and a pretty chronic litter problem. There’s a road (closed to cars) running through the center of the park that is about a mile long. A lot of people run or walk their dogs or bike along it. There’s a dog park and a pretty popular skate park, a bunch of tennis courts, some playground equipment, and short trails running along each side of the park, roughly parallel to the road. There’s a river running through it, and a tidal pond that is usually full of ducks and geese. Certain low-lying areas in the park are prone to flooding, and because a lot of the water there flows in from the Long Island Sound, it can smell a little foul around low tide. But overall it’s a nice place to...