Allmendinger Park

It’s the best all around park in Ann Arbor. There’s always people there enjoying organized and informal activities. It has a tennis court, basketball court, softball fields, playground, open grass field for playing Ultimate, etc and a building with restrooms. Come and enjoy!

This park has a *CARGO NET*!!! Way too small for regular adults to climb though. Makes me wish I were a kid again… or at least a dwarf (worth it?).

Oh yeah! There is so much shade on the playground! It’s great for hot days when the little ones need to get out some energy. I’ll drive here again even though it’s sort of across town! Also, they have some bathrooms!

I’m so happy to have this lovely park close by. Ann Arbor has a lot of parks, ranging from a triangle of grass with some benches to parks with trails and canoeing. Allmendinger isn’t big enough (like Gallup) to have a bike/​walking trail, and it isn’t adjacent to a body of water, but it’s a dang fine neighborhood park.
The majority of the space here is open and sunny, with the side along Pauline offering more shade as well as lots of play equipment for kids and picnic tables. There is an outbuilding, too — with public bathrooms that are really not that gross, amazingly. They even stuck some sort of fake stained-​glass sticker on the windows in the bathroom. I was kinda amused, kinda charmed that someone wanted to make the park bathroom look that nice!
There’s a drinking fountain outside of this building too, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Bummer. There are also two large baseball diamonds, which would be perfect for baseball or kickball…
… and then, around the periphery of the park is one of my favorite parts:
Lilacs!
Big, giant bushes (trees, really!)… mini-​walls of lilacs. Right now, they are blossoming, and just a walk near them — either in the park or on the sidewalk smells like heaven. Way to go, whomever planted these beauties long ago, and big ups to the A2 Parks staff for keeping them strong and healthy!
I wasn’t able to hop on anyone’s wi-​fi, but I do have a wireless card for my computer, so this can theoretically be my new «outdoor office» now and then. I just have to remember some SPF and camp out on the shady side of things…