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My Favorite Park

City life can be quite boring for many people. Noisy factories, complex interchange highways,

stuffed subways, crammed streets, and hooting buses are just but a few descriptions of how

unwelcoming modern cities can be, even to the seasoned city dwellers. Sometimes it becomes

necessary to flee from these kinds of environments to a place where one’s mind, soul, and heart

can be rejuvenated and filled with life- once again. There are several places where this can

happen. People may prefer refreshing their minds in deserts, forests, lakesides, or gardens among

other countless places. My favorite place is a park and not just any park, but Van Cortlandt Park

in the Bronx. It is a park that I would describe as being more than a mixture of all these other

beautiful places.

The park boasts the very last residues of the native greenwoods of New York and leaves

its visitors with traces of nostalgia that remain in the memories forever. The adventures start

immediately the entrance becomes visible. A simple gate with a touch of the old days evokes

thoughts of Ancient Greece, and the long paved trail that ensues brings forth regrets of why you

forgot to bring your bike for a breathtaking ride. Once inside, scents of the old-growth forests

send you back to what seems like a time travel- perhaps to around two hundred years before

Common Era. My hope of meeting some guys I read in the books of history within the park

reemerge as a walk on the trails in the pursuit of more fun. After a short distance, one realizes

that the fun has just begun.

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Several types of butterflies with brightly shining colors enjoy the coolness of the forests.

Deep within the huge canopies of the forest, few pitch-dark bats can occasionally be seen from

afar. Other animals like groundhogs, raccoons, rabbits, and coyotes can be seen occasionally

gracing the adventures in the park, but it is the melodious choruses of the majestic birds that

bring memories of earlier years. While the melancholic songs of birds like meadowlarks, robins,

Canaries and Swainson’s thrushes are deeply engraved in my memory galleries, the songs of the

birds of Van Cortlandt Park sound like hymns from another world. They are songs that make me

believe that there is life after death.

There then comes the Van Cortlandt Lake. From afar, one can smell the fresh waters of

the lake. No other freshwater lake in the Bronx matches the magnitude and beauty of this one,

nor is there any other site in this park that has as much beauty. It looks like a perfect replica of

the blue sky. It is the center of recreational fishing. The smell of fish here is both repelling and

nauseating, but the attractiveness of the area overwhelms all these. I have been here on several

occasions, and in almost all of them, I made sure that I tasted some of these fish- fresh off the

lake and fried by seasoned fishermen in the area adjacent to the western side of the lake. They

are undoubtedly scrumptious and mouth-watering and always leave one yearning for more. One

would be very wrong to think that fish is the only food served in the park. Several food-spots

have a wide array of aromatic delicacies, and most of them are quite affordable. As for the

appetizers, I always go for the crispy wontons or egg rolls. The egg rolls are too toothsome to

leave without a few takeaways, but it is the flavorful taste of the wontons that keeps me begging

for more.

The recreational area has many features, but the most outstanding include the golf course,

the horseback riding area, basketball courts, and the running trails. The vastness of the park

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Surname 1 Name Tutor Course Date My Favorite Park City life can be quite boring for many people. Noisy factories, complex interchange highways, stuffed subways, crammed streets, and hooting buses are just but a few descriptions of how unwelcoming modern cities can be, even to the seasoned city dwellers. Sometimes it becomes necessary to flee from these kinds of environments to a place where one’s mind, soul, and heart can be rejuvenated and filled with life- once again. There are several places where this can happen. People may prefer refreshing their minds in deserts, forests, lakesides, or gardens among other countless places. My favorite place is a park and not just any park, but Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. It is a park that I would describe as being more than a mixture of all these other beautiful places. The park boasts the very last residues of the native greenwoods of New Y ...
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