Dottie Jordan Park(which also includes the Pool, Community Garden, and Recreation Center) is perhaps the most uniting location of the University Hills neighborhood. The pool, which is open in the summer, is free! And if you go when it first opens in the morning, you’re likely to have it to yourself. The tennis courts have recently been redone, after being damaged by the flooding in May 2015. The Recreation Center is home to the University Hills Neighborhood Association meetings, is a voting location, and now has Buti Yoga on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. There is a bike rack that also has a repair station. There are bike tools for anyone to use and they may have an air pump as well, can’t quite remember. The playground is not huge, but plenty of fun, and it’s been a great place for us to meet up with neighborhood friends, as well as to meet other families in the neighborhood. All around, a good park with diverse patrons that is not well known enough.
Zane N.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 Austin, TX
I love this park! It’s right by my house, so I may be somewhat bias, but I’m still taking off a star for sheer lack of size alone, it has plenty of length, but not much girth… Dottie Jordan isn’t nearly as well endowed as say, Zilker, but the dimensions that it does have are fully utilized. There’s a large playscape for the bigger kids to play on, and a little playscape for the smaller kids. There’s a nice swimming pool to cool off in during the summer, complete with lifeguards, but it isn’t open year-round. There’s a small rec/community center on sight too, but what actually goes on in there is only speculation, since I’ve never been in that building… The ammenities also include multiple picnic tables, some covered seating, and some built-in barbecue grills. There’s also a creek that snakes around the perimeter of the park where my kids love to go fossil hunting, and just on the inner edge of the creek there is a little walking/jogging trail. I’ve been to this park many many times, but never checked in until my kids and I met Keri B. here to plant trees for an event she posted on Unilocal!,called«Ready, Set, Plant!». If you live near this park and haven’t been to it yet then I suggest you take your kids there right away.
