Forest Park, the city's 735 acres of green
Frederick Law Olmsted's firm laid out Forest Park in the 1890s, and the result is one of the largest urban parks in the country.
The Forest Park entrance off Sumner Avenue opens onto rose gardens, a small zoo, ball fields, a pond, and miles of wooded path. The park gives its name to the surrounding neighborhood, which is some of the most walkable real estate inside the city limits. People run laps here at six in the morning and watch fireworks here on the Fourth of July.
The park hosts the Bright Nights drive through holiday display every December, a tradition that brings hundreds of thousands of visitors through the gate. Spring brings the Forest Park rose garden into bloom. Summer brings the concert series. Restaurants, ice cream shops, and family services on Sumner and Belmont absorb the foot traffic year round.
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Family Saturdays in Springfield
Forest Park has the swings and the rose garden. Van Horn has the playground that gets busy by 9 a.m. Sixteen Acres has the soccer fields. Saturdays stay outside.
Springfield's city neighborhoods
McKnight, Bay, Old Hill, the South End, the North End, Brightwood, Memorial Square, Liberty Heights. The city is a stack of distinct places.
The suburbs that work like Springfield
Longmeadow, East Longmeadow, Wilbraham, Agawam, West Springfield. Towns that share a paper, a high school rivalry, and a downtown.