Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Crysta Parkinson @ Well Worn Suitcase
Just off Interstate 5 in Irvine, there is a beautiful, vast metropolitan park called Orange County Great Park. If you have been there before for an event, we think it is time you rediscovered this peaceful gem in the hustle and bustle of the OC.
Preferably when there’s not a thing on the park’s calendar.
We visited on Monday afternoon, and it would have been the ideal location to shoot a zombie apocalypse movie. Where IS everyone? Oh right, sitting in traffic.
The vast parking lots were completely empty, and acres of gorgeous park land was going completely unutilized. We even hit the park’s website to make sure it wasn’t closed. When an Irvine Police officer drove by, we wondered for a moment if we would be in trouble! But sure enough, the park is open from 10 a.m. to dusk on Mondays. (Check the site here for complete hours.)
Orange County Great Park is home to a list of fun events for the whole family, including free concerts in the park, a solar decathlon, farmer’s markets, and much more. Programming and events are great, but it’s the in-between time – the time when this is just a beautiful metropolitan park – that is where the action’s really at.
If you haven’t visited the Great Park during those in-between times, you’re missing out on a beautiful oasis in the city of Irvine. It has been called one of the great metropolitan parks in the country, and we see such potential to live up to that. Built by focus group and working hard at creating identity in this community, the idea for Orange County Great Park was born after Marine Corps Air Station El Toro closed in 1999. This is one of the things we loved most about this beautiful park – it is being reused and recycled! How cool is that?
This park is a beautiful space for reflection, and it is so much more. A trip to the park is one of the most budget-friendly, healthy activities you can do with your family. So…unplug the kids, get them in the car, and drive on over to the Orange County Great Park. Here are the directions.
Not sure what to do when you get there? Maybe one of these ideas will strike a chord.
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