This park is wonderful. Down the hill from downtown Tuscumbia you’ll find a roaring waterfall and a lake full of splashing ducks. It’s just beautiful. There seems to be plenty for families to do-check out the falls, a large playground, picnic tables, lunch at Claunch Café. There was a small merry go round and train but I’m not sure when these run. There was a big pavilion for large events. Definitely cool and some place you should at least drive through while in Tuscumbia.
Shadowstitch ..
Évaluation du lieu : 2 Muscle Shoals, AL
It’s a nice enough park, but it might be nicer if they did a little upkeep now and then. Everything looks like it needs some maintenance — wooden fences are cracked and broken, planks are missing, paint is peeling, and the restrooms are exactly the horror show you’d expect from a public park. The broken glass, floating soda bottles and stray garbage laying everywhere make it hard to enjoy the scenery, and give good cause to think twice about sandals(or god help you, bare feet.) The goose poop coating every conceivable horizontal surface doesn’t help matters any. Watch your step! I’ve never seen any of the various attractions/facilities actually open and running, even on summer days with a dozen families milling about. Though some enterprising amateur vandal has torn down half the decorative brick retaining wall around the Tank display, engineering a makeshift set of stairs to crawl up onto it. It really does look like once upon a time they invested a lot of money and care into renovating this place, then just turned it loose to rot. It’s probably a good thing it’s closed at night.
Michael s.
Évaluation du lieu : 5 St Petersburg, FL
I studied about Helen Keller in grade school here in Alabama but it wasn’t until an episode of South Park, in which the kids are putting on ‘Th Miracle Worker’ that I began to appreciate who she was. Ironic, yes? So it was with great pleasure that I finally visited her birthplace here in Tuscambia and I’m glad I did. Ivy Green, as it is called, is a beautiful gounds with 150 year old English Boxwoods, Magnolia. a FIG tree even! Just like the one I had in my yard growing up. The house sits in the middle of this spledor, looking much like it did in 1820! The tour is informative and full of many stories unknown to me. Aah! The furniture and antiques are 85% original. my favorite? The Sugar Chest in the dining room which was appraised on the Antique Road Show for $ 18,000! Oh, heck, I love all things old, who am I kidding? Everything has been lovingly restored/preserved and there is much see and read on this great woman. There’s the cottage next door where she was born, the beautiful herb garden, th cook’s quarters/kitchen and the famous pump. ah yes, the pump. sorry, I started singing the South Park song«Water, she said water’! while standing there. but just for a minute. For $ 5.00 admission, it is definitely worth a visit.
Brandon R.
Évaluation du lieu : 5 Bowie, MD
Tuscumbia, Alabama. Where history and poverty meet. Birthplace of Helen Keller. Per capita income, $ 18,000. It’s in this setting that I love introducing people to Spring Park. We turn the corner by ColdWater Books and overlook the park. The reaction is usually something like, «What the crap.» Plus a few expletives. It’s like you’ve stumbled upon the elves’ workshop in the vast arctic north. All that’s missing is Santa, strapping his suspenders around his bloated, jiggling belly. There’s quite a bit of history to Spring Park going back some 200 years and including Jimmy Carter’s announcement to run for President. Today it’s a thing of beauty. You could easily spend the day here exploring the area. There is an incredible water fountain with 20 or 30 spouts that light up and are choreographed to music every night during Spring and Summer. It’s like something out of Las Vegas — really incredible. There’s the world’s largest man made waterfall. An absolutely astounding American Indian carved out of a giant tree. Petrified tree stumps. Two awe-inspiring paddle wheels in the lake. A train which runs around the entire park. Visitors can ride it. A full size, functioning carousel. Roller coaster. The list goes on. And I haven’t even mentioned the beautiful scenery. Gorgeous flowers, massive trees, ducks and geese… I just called my pastor and told him I found the Garden of Eden. He dropped the f-bomb, then hung up on me. I’m lucky to live just a couple of blocks away, and I visit here often. Usually with my dog. It’s really a neat place. I would even put this above Helen Keller’s birthplace as a «must see» for Tuscumbia.
