Edgewood Park

It’s a beautiful place to take a walk. It has plenty of room with a paved road to allow for running, biking, walking and benches for sitting. I took my dog and there is a dog park area. There is a skatepark and a local farmers market was in full swing. There were tennis courts and they were packed. Parking not so good. The duck pond was clean and lots of ducks and geese swimming. Lots of paths branch off into surrounding neighborhoods. There are park areas with the usual kid equipment.

Growing up in west haven parks have been ok, but since I’ve lived in New Haven this has always been a nice place to jog and see the nature side of the amity west ville border much better cleaning crews, nice to see the kids be kids playing at the park and the amount of new 🌳🌷🌺🌲🌲🌱🌾🦆 is gorgeous very nicely done too, a raise is deserved to the landscaping crew and planters who put up new trees and foliage and the environmental service workers are a1 I saw not one piece of trash and plenty of receptacles great job 👏🏿

Edgewood Park is a truly beautiful greenspace that also functions as an urban oasis for so many different types of fauna and flora. Walking through the trails is an enriching and grounding experience, Duck Pond is a lovely sight and so are the ducks, and of course you have the skate park on the north side and the playground towards the south. The graffiti is not why I'm knocking a star, but it definitely deserves its own note. To me, it tells the history of this park and those that were here once upon a time. It's fascinating to me to see how people saw the world through graffiti. The reason why I'm knocking a star is because the entirety of the recreation area to the west of the playground and West River, between Edgewood & Chapel, is unusable. It has been mowed when I was there a week or so ago, but it's still unusable as an outdoor recreation area, thanks to a solid half-inch of grass and what-not I have to step through throughout the entire area, and I was concerned for ticks and other bugs that I might bring home the entire time I walked through that area. Overall, I would definitely come back here for the sights & sounds, a place to unwind, and also a place to work out; I find a lot of people do their morning workout here!

Really nice park for jogging or mediation with friends.

It’s a fairly typical city park, I think, with some lovely parts and some well maintained features, and other things that have fallen into disrepair and a pretty chronic litter problem. There’s a road (closed to cars) running through the center of the park that is about a mile long. A lot of people run or walk their dogs or bike along it. There’s a dog park and a pretty popular skate park, a bunch of tennis courts, some playground equipment, and short trails running along each side of the park, roughly parallel to the road. There’s a river running through it, and a tidal pond that is usually full of ducks and geese. Certain low-lying areas in the park are prone to flooding, and because a lot of the water there flows in from the Long Island Sound, it can smell a little foul around low tide. But overall it’s a nice place to have nearby.