Edina is home to thirty six parks, but with such a variety, it begs the question: which ones are the best?
Pamela Park, located on West 58th Street in North Eastern Edina boasts sixty two acres that feature a new playground (installed last summer), a skating rink and warming house in the winter, not to mention multiple soccer and baseball fields.
Sami Peterson, an Edina High School sophomore on Edina’s junior varsity softball team says Pamela is one of the best parks for softball in Edina. “The fields are smooth and there are fences for the outfield.” When asked what the park needed, Peterson replied quickly, “Lights! We can’t practice or play later without lights, which is why we have to start early.” Early indeed, softball players need to get released at three to make it to games before there’s not enough light to play by.
A personal favorite would be Centennial Lakes Park, off France Avenueand 76th Street in the southeast corner of Edina. The twenty four acre park includes a pond, over 1.5 miles of trails, and is probably most notable for sailboats in the summer and a huge ice skating rink during the winter. But there are lesser known aspects to the park, such as the maze, a thousand seat amphitheater or the farmers market that takes over the walkways by Hughes Pavilion. Open rain or shine on Thursday afternoons from June 14 to September 27, the farmers market has an average of three dozen venders featuring locally grown products.
Another Edina park isRoslandPark, behind the Edina pool. With a huge playground and gazebo outfitted with grills, it’s the perfect place for large gatherings. The park also features the only Frisbee golf course in Edina, with a nine-hole course that surrounds the Edina Pool. But even though it’s the only course in Edina, according to junior Ben Albitz, “the course if fine, but it’s only nine holes, which is pretty short.” Albitz prefers to play at Bryant Park in Eden Prairie. There the course is eighteen holes and “it’s well kept and the layout is better. There’re maps at the holes of the course.”
Even while not perfect, there are definitely some noteworthy parks in Edina.
