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Eastern North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland offer a wide range of public parks that are fun for the whole family. Grassy lawns and wide open spaces are just a couple of the many offerings these diverse public spaces boast. At eastern North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland parks you will also find a 9,000-square-foot skate park, an urban wildlife oasis, a state-of-the-art, kid-designed playground, a seaside park.
Delmarva Peninsula Parks
A great energy-expender (caretakers can lounge leisurely on a park bench) is the John Waples Memorial Playground, on McKinley Avenue, in Dewey Beach, Delaware. Waples Playground features excellent play structures as well as wide, shady lawns perfect for picnics and a game of catch. Third Street Park in Ocean City, Maryland has a basketball court, ball field, a playground for the younger kids, and a popular 17,000-square-foot Ocean Bowl Skate Park (designed by Tim Payne, who built the MTV Street Course), for the older, skateheads in the family. A new waterfront park on Chincoteague Island, Virginia, offers tennis courts, playgrounds, and verdant grassy lawns great for a leisurely afternoon looking at the sea.
Eastern Virginia Parks
King-Lincoln Park, in Newport News, features a sublime view overlooking the Hampton Roads waterfront, and it's ideal for a seaside picnic, pick-up game of basketball, or an impromptu tennis match while the kids engage in climbing, swinging, and running on the playgrounds. Kids are often happy when their pets get a treat - and the park at Buckroe Beach hasn't forgotten that pet-friends count too. In addition to walking paths, picnic shelters, and playgrounds at Buckroe Beach, you will also find a Bark Park where dogs are welcome to do their thing, whatever that might be. Richmond is rich in public parks. A great place to just let things flow, James River Park was voted the “Best Urban Park” in a reader's choice survey conducted by the Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine. The 450-acre park offers just about everything a park can and should, all along a unique wilderness shoreline right in the heart of Richmond. In addition to just lying in a grassy meadow, you can also count on a long list of activities including every outdoor sport or activity you can imagine.
North Carolina Shore ParksNever forgetting the needs of the hippest skater dudes among us, Wilmington created a 9,000-square-foot skate park, Greenfield Grind Skate Park, replete with a banked street course, multi bowls, hips, rails, and ledges. Shevans Park, atis the mother of all children's parks. Designed by kids themselves, this is a playground to end all playgrounds: entry tours, mazes, slides, swings, ladders, spring bridges, a balance beam, a race car, a boat - need we say more? Spacious, grassy parks on the Outer Banks specifically geared toward families include Hayman Park in Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head Town Park in Nags Head, and Cartwright Memorial Park in Manteo.
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