How To Use this List:
I’ve kept State Parks and related State Forests as two lines. This might be cheating, but they usually offer different experiences.
Each Link goes directly to the appropriate site, not to a directory, wherever possible.
Scroll down to your favorite area. Look right above it.
Have you been here? How about the area right below it?
"The Spring fishing season began yesterday in Mill Creek Park. Licensed fisherman can fish at both Lake Newport and Lake Glacier, from shore on from boats.more info here.
Shore fishing is also permitted at Yellow Creek Park in Struthers."
"According to Mill Creek Metropark’s Mission Statement, the park is to be:
- Responsive to Community Needs
- Environmentally Sound
- Adaptable
- Economically Feasible
Now, I don’t know if rockclimbing is economically feasible, But I do know that kids today want to do more than play frisbee in the flats and stroll through Fellows.
The ice rink is closed, the swings are down.There’s no snow for the sledding hill. There’s no mountain bike trails, no rock climbing, no skateboard park, no paintball arena.
I’ve seen some progress, and hope there’s more. After all, I know the boating regulations have been updated. But it seems that most of the programs and policies that the park adopts are designed for adults."
"[today] I found Mill Creek Park to be astonishingly gorgeous. She was like a beautiful bride in a shimmering pearlescent white gown.
As I made my way through the Bears Den area I was greatly dismayed to find a large amount of graffiti spray painted on the rock faces and tree trunks. I counted over a dozen large designs scrawled throughout the immediate area. There are more I am sure, but I was getting too ticked off and upset to keep counting. Having gone through this area in the late fall , I saw some graffiti but not to the extent of what I saw today. I assume it was done since then, perhaps during the brief warm spell we had early in January.
After carefully examining this graffiti, I came to the conclusion that it was NOT gang related. As far as I could tell, it was not even classic "tagging". Instead there are pot leaves and names. All in all very mundane and cliched.
I also could see where park caretakers had attempted to remove some of the graffiti by what appeared to be sandblasting. This method not only removed the paint but also the natural, dark patina of the rock, as well as the moss and lichens, leaving large, scoured areas of tan sandstone. In one of these scoured areas some half baked "arteest" had spray painted fresh graffiti."
"The park is known as the Green Cathedral for a reason: it connects all of us with the Divine and the Mystical."
