Mud Pies and Froggy Tales: Revisiting Coupeville's "Town Park": playground, concerts, cookhouse, bbq, tennis, and more

Monday, March 30, 2009

Revisiting Coupeville's "Town Park": playground, concerts, cookhouse, bbq, tennis, and more

Left: Luc holding Stella on the slide with Marina behind them Right: the Pavilion

This is the best slide around. It is tall, metal, and steep. Great for a adventurous four-year old and a one-year old who thinks she is invincible (with a parent of course). Yesterday I revisited a park form my past: Town Park in Coupeville (at NW Coveland and Colburn Streets). The park is located on 3.8 acres above (to the north-west) of downtown Coupeville. When I visited it was an idyllic sunny day with fluffy clouds gently sailing overhead. My husband and I brought our take-out lunch to the park with our two kids and enjoyed the water view through the trees, the little daisies covering the field and the slide. Mostly, the slide. Marina loved it. She climbed up the stairs and slid down the slide over and over. Then she began, as kids always do, to climb up the slide and slide back down, forget the stairs.

The park has an open grassy field, an outdoor pavilion for concerts and other social events, a large cookhouse, BBQ, picnic tables, tennis courts, bathrooms, and a playground with a climbing dome, slide, and big kids swings (sorry no baby swings). Much of the park overlooks Penn Cove and there is a trail that goes to the beach.

I remember this park when I was a kid, visiting it with my parents to see the "Concerts on the Cove" series. We would play hard and walk down to town and get ice cream at the local ice cream parlor, Kapaw's Iskreme, which by the way is wonderful! Try it out sometime: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3T7D