Parks
Mel Swart Conservation Park is a waterfront park located on Lake Gibson. The park offers a large track along the perimeter, and has a boardwalk suspended out over the lake. The park is a popular site for family picnics.
Short Hills Provincial Park is partially located in the City of Thorold.
Some other of the numerous recreational parks in the city include:
Battle of Beaverdams Park - Historical displays, bandstand and playground equipment. It is not far from the actual location of the battle site. One of the locks of the second canal has been partially excavated for its historical interest.
McMillan Park - Baseball diamond, and playground equipment.
Sullivan Park - Baseball diamond, splash pad, and playground equipment.
Hutt Park - Baseball diamond and playground equipment.
Confederation Park - Baseball diamond, soccer field, basketball court, tennis courts, Splash pad, and playground equipment.
C.E. Grosse Park - Soccer field, wading pool and playground equipment.
Beaverdams Park - Baseball diamond, basketball court and playground equipment.
McAdam Park - Baseball diamond, Skatepark and playground equipment.
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“Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.”
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“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)