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Penfield's Pretty Preserves
Today I traveled only about five miles south of my house deep into Penfield, to more completely explore a park I've been to many times...
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Is it one field or more?
Sherwood Fields I love extra days off of school. It gave me the opportunity to visit two more parks today, and I dragged my bike along...
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Riding through Victor
My husband and I took advantage of a beautiful -- albeit very cool -- autumn day today to head south towards Victor to check out a few...
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Beauty to the east
The weather wasn't supposed to be very nice today. Scattered showers were forecast all day. But instead, the day dawned sunny and warm, a...
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Back in the Saddle Again
Near the end of August, I was making great progress on my park quest, sometimes knocking off six or seven parks a week. But that came to...
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Off the beaten path
My husband and I turned today's park explorations into a bike ride along the canal. We parked at Great Embankment Park just south of...
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Some pleasant surprises in Perinton
Center Park in Perinton is another one of those parks whose Google Maps differ from printed maps. It's either one large park, or two...
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Mountain bikers' heaven
I didn't really know what to expect from Tryon Park and Irondequoit Bay Park West, two Irondequoit parks I would be visiting this day....
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Simply nature
I had only a few hours to spend on this particular explore-the-park trip, so I threw my bike in the car in hopes that the two Perinton...
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Three towns down
I was pretty excited to track down Brighton's Lynch Woods Park, which is located about as far west in Brighton as you can get. It would...