Jollystone Park (Duluth, Minnesota)

USA / Minnesota / Duluth / Duluth, Minnesota
 park, abandoned / shut down
There is not much to this park anymore, overgrown & pretty much abandoned. All that remains is some stairs, A street lamp (likely nonfunctional), part of a basketball court & the unkept field itself. My Grandma used to take me to this park as a child, it's sad to see it abandoned, but at least the property is still a green space.
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Coordinates:   46°46'59"N   92°6'48"W

Comments

  • Emerson elementary school is a few blocks away and I went to school there thru 4th grade. Jollystone park was amazing, huge picnic area, swings, circular tube you could run in, a nice weaving entry ramp, paintings of yogi and boo boo, etc. The park was a blast when I was a kid and after Emerson school closed about 30 years ago the city let the part go to hell, now it doesn't look like a park was ever there. Is a shame, when your a kid that kind of stuff in your neighbor hood is memorable. To bad the neighborhood or community close to the park didn't have some fun raising effort to keep it alive for the kids.
  • It's the city's fault. They've ruined it for kids in many parks. No programs. No skating. All at a time when kids need physical play more than ever. Our $goes to bayfront for tourists and kids who have a ride. Observation is now a shit hole uninhabitable for pleasure. It is an infectious joke of dog park.
  • Back in the late 90s we turned the park into a pretty cool skate park, even raised money to have it repaved. I remember watching the tractors destroy all the hard work we out into that skate spot and thinking how cool the new skate spot would be. City never came back to pave it sadly. Then we made a sweet dirt BMX track for a few years. Memories.
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