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PARK AND CEMETERY . 
ade runs all along the water front 
and the plan for the park includes 
provision for many forms of active 
recreation and quieter relaxation. 
(2) Levee Park. This will contain 
about twelve acres and is happily sit- 
uated at the natural water approach 
to the city and close to the business 
•center. The plan for this park is 
more ornamental than Copeland 
Park. The water front will continue 
to be used for business purposes, but 
the undeveloped area between the 
river and the railroad tracks will be 
filled, improved and made available 
for recreation. 
(3) Grandad Blufif and Miller’s 
Coulee. The park which it is pro- 
posed to create at this point will be 
the largest and most beautiful in La 
■Crosse. In fact, few cities have such 
an opportunity. Grandad Bluff is 
the highest in the neighborhood of 
La Crosse and rises majestically to a 
height of 1,172 feet. The Coulee, 
which nestles in its side, affords a 
type of scenery of great attractive- 
ness. It is beautiful and restful, as 
well as adapted for a pleasure ground 
for city people as any that can be 
conceived. This property is only 
partially acquired, but when com- 
pleted it will probably include over 
four hundred acres. It is as good an 
illustration of ready-made park as 
could be found, and except for road 
making, the cost of its improvement 
will be slight. 
(4) West Avenue Playfield. The 
acquisition of this three acre field 
at West Avenue and Jackson Street 
— more than a full city block in ex- 
tent — illustrates the interest of the 
park commission in playgrounds for 
the children. 
(5) Adams Street Playground. Al- 
though smaller in area, this property 
corresponds in character and devel- 
opment to the West Avenue Play- 
field. 
(6) Block at George and Living- 
stone Streets on the North Side. It 
is proposed to acquire and improve 
this block much after the manner of 
the Adams Street Playground. 
(7) La Plume Island. At present 
this island is low and requires filling. 
When filled and improved, it will 
make for the South End of the city 
a park much like Pettibone Park. 
(8) Forty acres at the south end 
of West Avenue. This property is 
not imperatively needed by the city 
for immediate use, but is a valuable 
reservation for the future. 
(9) Main Street Square. The city 
already owns one-half this square. 
By purchasing the other half, which 
can still be had on reasonable terms, 
a splendid' open space would be se- 
cured in the heart of the city. 
(10) Reservation on the viaduct be- 
tween North and South La Crosse. 
Such a property is now easily se- 
cured and would proyide a park for 
the future at a central situation. 
(11) Inter-State Fair Grounds. This 
tract of 37 acres is now owned 
by the city and it is proposed later 
to make it the principal athletic 
ground for the older boys and young 
men of the city. Here there is room 
for a very complete provision for all 
the field sports, tennis, etc. The lo- 
cation is ajjmirable for the purpose. 
(12) Parkways. It is proposed to 
connect all these parks, squares and 
playgrounds by a complete system of 
parkways and boulevards. A circuit 
of fifteen miles might not be entirely 
free from some relatively common- 
place sections, yet most of it could 
easily be made very attractive. Even 
now a very large percentage affords 
views both near and far that could 
not be equalled by the best parkways 
in the larger cities. 
The methods followed at La Crosse, 
a city of but 31,000 population, it 
should be remembered, have been so 
successful and the results so satis- 
factory that it is worth while to note 
the lessons which the experience 
gives as a guide for the future not 
GRANDAD BLUFF, LA CROSSE, WIS., PARK SYSTEM. 
SITE OF THE PROPOSED COULEE PARK, LA CROSSE, WIS. 
