One of the best things about visiting a park is being able to share your visit with someone. When my daughter was two weeks old my best friend came to visit with her mom and her son, Dean. At the time, Dean was an 18 month old energizer bunny so we headed out to the neighborhood playground half a mile away.
We took a few pictures that first day, but when Ashley turned three months we decided to head back to the same place our adventures first started, Pollock Place Playground.
Pollock Place is a shady oasis located between Dixie Trail and Meredith College at 3301 Pollock Place. It is in a quiet neighborhood in a triangular median between Taylor St, Merriman Ave, and Pollock Place streets. There are two jungle gyms with slides for different age groups, a swing set, metal benches with artsy designs, three picnic tables with a charcoal grill, and a sandbox. The playground is covered in a hardy mulch base, which is not a bad surface for strollers. My favorite part of this playground is the enormous trees that provide an abundance of shade and tranquility.
Raleigh really is an amazing city with great places to explore! It seems like with every street or neighborhood you drive by there’s bound to be a nearby park, trail, or playground.
Raleigh has several neighborhood playgrounds throughout the city—so take a walk through your neighborhood and explore.
Thumbs up: shade, tranquility, jungle gyms, swing set
Thumbs down: none, unless you think napping all day under the shade trees is wrong 
This article originally appeared on raleighparks.org, where you can see more pictures about this post.