{"id":6312,"date":"2016-04-27T20:31:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T03:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6312"},"modified":"2016-04-27T20:31:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T03:31:56","slug":"westerly-creek-park-offers-gorgeous-views-of-central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6312","title":{"rendered":"Westerly Creek Park Offers Gorgeous Views of Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"westerly-creek-park\"<\/a>Stapleton has roughly three dozen pocket parks<\/a> which provide wide open areas for kids to play sports, fly kites, and have picnics. Most of those parks have new age playground equipment which on a nice day, are crawling with Stapleton kids. Then, of course, there\u2019s Central Park<\/a> which provides everything the pocket parks<\/a> do, but with ten times the space and playground equipment. But one of these Stapleton pocket parks<\/a> stands out from the rest of the Stapleton Green Space. Westerly Creek Park.\n\nBlink, and you just might miss it. But if you are lucky enough to get caught at the stop light on Beeler and MLK, look off to the south, and you will see an insignificant amount of land with two oddly placed benches. That\u2019s the pride of the Stapleton pocket parks. \u201cJust because something isn\u2019t big, doesn\u2019t mean it doesn\u2019t have purpose (that\u2019s what she said),\u201d said resident Amy Westwick. \u201cThere are a lot of things you can do at Westerly Creek park.\u201d One of Westwick\u2019s favorite things to do is to imagine what she would be doing if she was 100 yards away at Central Park. \u201cI will think of things I could be doing over there, like feeding the geese, or walking along the path,\u201d said Westwick. \u201cI\u2019ll imagine having friends, and grilling and hanging out at the picnic tables.\u201d Westwick says she often just enjoys watching all the people having fun at Central Park. \u201cWesterly Creek Park is a great place to view the happenings at Central Park. I\u2019ll see kids playing, people playing with their dogs. It\u2019s just really neat to watch.\u201d Westwick acknowledges Central Park has one thing Westery Creek Park does not; a restroom. \u201cSometimes I\u2019ll be hanging out there for hours, and have to use the restroom. Westerly Creek Park doesn\u2019t have one yet, so that\u2019s something I am going to take up with the MCA.\u201d\nWestwick says the best time to go to Westerly Creek Park is really anytime. \u201cAlmost no one is ever there,\u201d says Westewick. \u201cAside from the almost constant stream of traffic on that corner, it\u2019s pretty quiet, at least as far as people go. There\u2019s a lot of construction that had been going on there for the last several months, but a lot of that is over. So, it\u2019s often just me, the traffic, and people heading on through to Central Park.\u201d So the next time you are walking passed Westerly Creek Park, or \u201cthe Gateway to Central Park\u201d as it is often called, stop, sit down, and take in the breathtaking views of Central Park just across the street. ]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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