Tuesday, October 9, 2007

No name park, Bement

On the way to Arthur today we stopped at this great little park in Bement. I couldn't find a name for it, but if I were to hazard a guess I'd call it Veteran's Park.
The equipment was new, the park was wonderfully shady, and the porto-potties were clean.
There was a shelter and lots of old playground equipment too. There were swings and a simple old merry go round. My son loved running and hollering in the shelter.
There was lots of lawn for running and a generously sized sand box.
Bement has several family restaurants and a pizza place, so next time we go I'll plan to stick around for dinner.

2 comments:

Don Appleman said...

Thank you for your kind words regarding the park in Bement, IL.

I live right on the park, and have only heard it referred to as "Bement Village Park", or the "small park" as there is a larger park (county forest preserve) at the northeast corner of town.

The veterans' memorial in the Bement park is a big deal (for a town of 1800 people) so calling it Veterans Park sounds appropriate as well.

Please come again!

Henny Penny said...

No problem, we enjoyed our time there and will definitely come back.