Wednesday, August 17, 2016

The French Park Nets Playground – End of an Era


If you haven’t gone and played in them yet. Go do it now because they are going away forever. I just got done talking with a French Park employee who told me the playground is being completely torn out and replaced. I have been worried about this for a while as I watched some of the ropes start to fray and the jimmy-rigging that the maintenance guys were doing to keep the nets alive. One time I talked with a maintenance guy as he told me that he didn’t expect the part to last another 5 years, and he was right. Here were are just a few months from removal.  It will be sad to see the playground go. Ever since I moved here it has always been a fun place to go and now with kids of my own I love to watch them run around and play spiderman games as they crawl through the nets.  The park says they will be putting a new playground in its place, and I’ve seen the new playgrounds, they’re nice… but not the same. I love the old fashioned style of the old playgrounds.

 

And on a personal note it is the end of another era, as I have just recently moved away from Plymouth.

 

It’s like they say: All good things must come to an end. So it is with bittersweetness I put a final posting up onto “Things to do in Plymouth MN”. A new job has caused our family to relocate to Phoenix, AZ. It has been a great run for me in Plymouth. Plymouth has been home base for me from 1996 to 2016. I have enjoyed creating this blog and sharing many of the things I find fun about the area. While each activity I posted up here has been something I loved I’ll leave you with my top 5, and I’ll leave this blog online for the benefit of those searching for fun in Plymouth.

 

Dan’s Top 5 Favorite Things to do in Plymouth:

  1. Wakeboarding
  2. Bike around Medicine Lake
  3. Playing football in the Dome
  4. Skateboard “the wall”
  5. Spending time at the parks

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Great Sledding Hills in Plymouth: French Park

This hill is super steep and gets icy really fast but its well lit and if you want you can pick people up and drive back up to the top! how sweet is that?