Sim Park is a huge park located at 2020 West Murdock, in the Riverside neighborhood. We knew that Sim Park Municipal Golf Course was part of the park, but until I was researching this park for the post, we had no idea that Botanica and Cowtown Museum are part of Sim Park. We will visit … More #121. Sim Park
Finding this park was quite the adventure. The Wichita Parks and Rec site lists the address as 3520 W. 71st Street South. However, GPS couldn't use this address, but had us go to 3520 EAST 71st Street South. It's almost to Derby and Haysville, between I-135 and K-15 near 63rd Street South. The last … More #101. South Arkansas River Greenway
For our 100th park, we wanted to go to one of our favorite parks. Exploration Park is to the south and east of Exploration Place. When we started the project, it was listed on the Wichita Parks and Rec site, but it is not a Wichita Parks and Rec park. Honestly, this park has seen … More #100. Exploration Park
We finally hit the southern part of Riverside Park. This part of the park consists of open grassy areas and the large tennis center. We'd never been over to the Ralph Wulz Riverside Tennis Center, and we were amazed! It has 10 outdoor and three indoor courts and they're gorgeous. We brought our bikes and … More #95. Riverside Park – South
Mead Island is a Wichita Wild Habitat Area in northwest Wichita that you can only get to by boat. It's in the Little Arkansas River, near North High School/Minisa Bridge and the Bitting Bridge entrance to Riverside Park. Since we couldn't find a boat to take us to the 5-acre island, we settled on pictures … More #83. Mead Island
Garvey Park marked our 68th park! Monica Castro, reporter from KAKE, joined us on our visit. We'll post the link to the interview when it's available. So exciting! Garvey Park is nestled along the river in southeast Wichita. GPS is a little weird on this one. Take 135 south to Hydraulic, north one block to … More #68. Garvey Park
Big Arkansas River Park is at 3900 W. 21st Street, which is near 235 and Zoo Boulevard. The Wichita Parks and Rec website states that the Westdall Bicycle Lane connects to the Arkansas River Bike Path here. There are three colorful info boards that look to be new. One was information on Big Ditch Mitch … More #56. Big Arkansas River Park
Best Quest with Weston & Sully 