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Once an important community greenspace, Rouge Park is now a 1200-acre expanse of deciduous woods and tall-grass meadows. A central north-south belt of forest is bounded by paved streets, while the former sports fields around the edges are overgrown with grasses punctuated by saplings. At the north end, the golf course is transitioning into stretches of weedy grass with scattered groves of maple and elm. The park is large enough to get lost in, but there are landmarks: the streets passing through it, with their pavement now cracking, and the old restroom buildings. The latter are beginning to cave in and fall down, becoming half-disintegrated masses with graffiti-covered walls and buckling rooftops. There are a few sculptures as well that act as signposts for travelers. | Once an important community greenspace, Rouge Park is now a 1200-acre expanse of deciduous woods and tall-grass meadows. A central north-south belt of forest is bounded by paved streets, while the former sports fields around the edges are overgrown with grasses punctuated by saplings. At the north end, the golf course is transitioning into stretches of weedy grass with scattered groves of maple and elm. The park is large enough to get lost in, but there are landmarks: the streets passing through it, with their pavement now cracking, and the old restroom buildings. The latter are beginning to cave in and fall down, becoming half-disintegrated masses with graffiti-covered walls and buckling rooftops. There are a few sculptures as well that act as signposts for travelers. | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:38, 9 December 2018
You enter the wild, overgrown expanse of Rouge Park...
Once an important community greenspace, Rouge Park is now a 1200-acre expanse of deciduous woods and tall-grass meadows. A central north-south belt of forest is bounded by paved streets, while the former sports fields around the edges are overgrown with grasses punctuated by saplings. At the north end, the golf course is transitioning into stretches of weedy grass with scattered groves of maple and elm. The park is large enough to get lost in, but there are landmarks: the streets passing through it, with their pavement now cracking, and the old restroom buildings. The latter are beginning to cave in and fall down, becoming half-disintegrated masses with graffiti-covered walls and buckling rooftops. There are a few sculptures as well that act as signposts for travelers.
Still, there are signs of human activity: thin tracks, like deer paths, cross through the meadows and woods. The old hiking trails, only half-completed when Measure 2 passed, remain only as the same sort of track: visible, sometimes even cut into the contour of a low-rising hill. The belt of woodland ranges from a few hundred yards wide, to perhaps half a mile at their widest point--and it is clearly expanding, with some of the former ballfields turning into nurseries for a new generation of trees.
The park is huge: approximately half a mile from east to west in most places, and about two miles from north to south.
