RECREATION PARKS 



be the system of communication between the different parts, connect- 

 ing the various features of interest. The driveways and walks com- 

 posing it should make an entire circuit of the park, returning without 

 break to the original point of entrance. There may be any number of 

 secondary lines with additional entrances and exits from the park, 

 but a trunk line or main artery of circulation is essential. The main 

 route should make a complete tour of the park, revealing practically 

 all of the features therein, or at least indicating their existence to those 

 willing to make side excursions. The principal driveway should be 

 followed closely in general direction by a system of walks, not every- 

 where paralleling the road in a servile monotonous fashion but recog- 

 nising its guidance and joining it at fundamental points of intersection 

 and interest. Walks which form more or less complete designs of 

 themselves as in small parks prove irrational and illogical in large 

 recreation parks ; the walks have usually a definite purpose of destina- 

 tion rather than merely that of offering place for promenading, as in 

 small parks. There may be spur walks leading to objects of park 

 pilgrimage not on the line of the driveway, or deflected walks to reveal 

 some especial scene of landscape beauty, but the devious and random 

 type of walk leading nowhere proves aggravating to the visitor, decoy- 

 ing him from a direct route and delaying him in reaching the especial 

 feature of interest which he may desire to visit. Gardening treatment 

 along walks in large parks should not be ignored but does not demand 

 the same fastidious attention as the planting of walks in smaller parks ; 

 the attention of the pedestrian is in a sense anticipatoiy, and intricate 

 planting detail is wont to be passed by unappreciated. 



NATURALISTIC SCENERY 



The first features to be developed for the enjoyment of the public 

 should be those inherent to the park; interior landscape scenes and 

 prospective views and vistas. Beautiful park landscape is usually the 



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