Queen City Park — Attraction in Tuscaloosa

This is a nice museum with a bittersweet history, and it has a story to tell. One of public swimming pools and where they went. I never knew this was a pool upon driving up. I'm just visiting the area for a day or two. As someone who learned to swim properly from a public pool program, I have found memories of going to local pools in the summer. I've often wondered why I don't see many now as an adult and this museum did a good job of educating me on the subject. The museum itself retains some of the original pool house architecture which is very impressive. As is the original concrete bleachers and art deco fountain outside. Both is disuse, but tended. Upon closer inspection you can see the outline of a Olympic size swimming pool in the field in front of the bleachers. You can even see some of the original tile work that marked the pool depth. Unfortunately it's over grown with grass and busted in parts so you can't quite make out what it says. Sadly, that's all that remains of a public pool that was of great use to it's public until it closed in 1988 I believe the museum said. Like so many of my childhood memories, this too is firmly in the past.

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I love this park! It is right behind the library so you can walk right over if you have book to read and walk up the path, it is kind of small, it is mostly a little trail that goes up a steep hill. But steep hill are something you are just going to have to get used to in Tuscaloosa. Just hills in general. If you are new to this town and you walk you will feel a soreness in your shins that is hard to get used to if you are from flatland. The river walk is across the street from the library though and it is much longer and flatter. I would suggest coming here if you want to find a little quiet nook in the woods to sit on a bench and read or mayb watch the birds and spot some wildlife like little chipmonks or maybe a fox or a gopher if you are lucky. In spring be on the look out for blackberries, they are everywhere around their and so delicious, you can taste the...

Lovely little public park with woodland paths. There are a couple picnic tables. I didn't realize until visiting recently that the Museum is part of the Queen City Park grounds. There is a big stretch of space for kids to run where the pool used to be. Nice place to walk dogs on leashes. Apparently this used to be a giant park with softball fields; the Tuscaloosa Public Library sits on part of the original park grounds. It is so nice that public spaces have been preserved in Tuscaloosa on both sides of Jack Warner Parkway (River Road). There is no "playground" here, nor restrooms outside the museum, nor vending. But it is a great place to play and go for a walk, or stop for a little picnic, and take in some nature and...