Well, welcome to River Side Park, other wise known as, Carrier Park, its is a three mile long park that runs side-by-side with the French Broad River. River Side is without a doubt the best park I have ever attended, its features include a three mile paved walk way, which has been used for jogging, running, biking, skate-boarding, skating, and in the winter time skiing. It also has a small roller blading court, a bike-racing court, a sand court with a single net which connects from post-to-post to play ball games, a play ground for kids, a basket ball court, and a grass bowling alley. I'm not entirely certain what the name of the game is, but basically you roll your bowling ball across this very fine layer of grass to see whose ball goes the farthest. I don't get it, but that's what I have seen. Also this park allows people to go kayaking down the French Broad during warmer seasons, you may also fish, but you can't hold onto the fish, also a baseball field, I'll also add that they allow camping there too, I see many people bringing in their RV's all the time, some small and others large, and well in charge, just a little rhyme for ya, and finally at the end of the park are some picnic tables and grills to cook on. Yes, I say, its my favorite park!
This is one of the bridges you see when entering River Side. Now this bridge is actually closed down now, but that's what makes this shot so cool, plus the glowing cross there on the top. Yeah, I got lucky with this shot.
This is the French Broad, now mind you, it doesn't actually get this high, in fact this water is on street level. You can't see it, but near the shore line were some steps, those steps normally get you down low enough to the water, but only when you have reached the 9th step, in other words, this river shot up four feet in a single week, needless to say we had a lot of rain.
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