Walking every park in Woodbury
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- Woodbury's expansive 3,000-acre park system serves as a model for urban green space accessibility.
- Citizen-led initiatives demonstrate the impact of well-maintained public infrastructure on quality of life.
- The ongoing evolution of city infrastructure, with new parks added faster than they can be explored.
I think Woodbury is so blessed to have such a great park system because we have parks in every neighborhood.
What I enjoy about going on walks is the solitude, the quiet in the sounds of nature. No distractions. It's a nice break from everything.
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[0:01] I think Woodbury is so blessed
to have such a great park system
[0:06] because we have parks
in every neighborhood.
[0:12] They're so accessible,
[0:14] you don't have to have a car or
you don't have to have a bike.
[0:17] There's going to be a park
somewhere nearby
[0:20] that you can go to and explore.
[0:23] Woodbury has more than 3000
acres of open space and parkland
[0:26] to explore, with miles of trails
connecting them.
[0:29] Each park is relatively easy
to discover.
[0:32] Living among this vast
amount of green spaces.
[0:34] is what inspired Kathy Stevenson
to see every park in Woodbury
[0:38] while experiencing her community
at the same time.
[0:41] I saw a person on TV
that was being interviewed
[0:45] that walked all the state parks,
and I thought,
[0:47] I wonder if I could walk
all the parks in Woodbury.
[0:50] And so I went to the website
and I clicked on the parks
[0:54] and I thought, oh, there isn't
that many, I can do this.
[0:58] So every day she gathers her dog
and walks out of her house
[1:02] and decides where to go.
[1:03] Every day I choose whether I'm
going to go right or left or
whatever,
[1:08] and there's 11 parks
within walking
[1:10] distance of my house,
so I've got a lot of choices.
[1:13] It's nice to see something
different.
[1:15] It's nice to see all of Woodbury
[1:17] or Constant Companion on her
journey has been melodee,
[1:20] who has also experienced
and sniffed
[1:22] every park by Kathy side.
[1:24] This gave me lots of
different places to go with her.
[1:27] Lots of places for her to sniff.
[1:29] She's always looking for
the squirrels.
[1:31] I think Wilmes Lake is probably
your biggest squirrel Lake.
[1:37] What I enjoy
[1:39] about going on walks
is the solitude, the quiet
[1:43] in the sounds of nature.
[1:45] As you're walking
in, you can think there's
[1:49] no distractions.
[1:50] It's a nice break
from everything.
[1:54] Kathy keeps
track of all her explorations.
[1:57] She has a spreadsheet
for all the parks
[1:59] she has visited, the distance
she's walked, and other details.
[2:02] It's a tool she uses to connect
with some of her favorite places
[2:07] I like Carver Lake Park
because it's so diverse.
[2:10] Carver Lake goes
into so many neighborhoods.
[2:14] There's so many branches
that go out to different places.
[2:18] Something different instead of
the same old park every day.
[2:24] She started this journey
in September 2023,
[2:27] and by November of that year
she had walked almost 50 parks.
[2:30] However, since then, Woodbury
has added more parks,
[2:33] and this summer
[2:35] she's out and about, determined
on making new discoveries.
[2:38] It's a beautiful park.
[2:39] I love the wildflowers
and the prairie
[2:42] and the trees are still little,
but they're going to grow
[2:45] and it's a nice path
to go around.
[2:48] It feels great
[2:50] to get another park off my list
and look forward to finishing
[2:53] my journeys.
[2:55] Now that she's added Discovery
[2:57] Park to her list, she can now
[2:58] focus on the two parks
she has left.
[3:01] Through it
all, Kathy has garnered
[3:02] a great appreciation
for all of Woodbury■s greenspace
[3:05] and the efforts
it takes to keep them beautiful.
[3:08] What I have learned
is that the parks
[3:10] here are absolutely stunning
and great condition.
[3:13] They're beautiful.
[3:15] The nature that we see the
the lakes, the streams,
[3:20] and they're always
being cared for.
[3:22] So they keep maintaining them
and doing more things to them.
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Woodbury Park System accessibility
Citizen engagement with public greenspace
Park maintenance and preservation
Individual project of walking all local parks
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