Memorial Boulevard Park is a beautiful spot both to walk your dog, or just to walk through by yourself. One of the parking lots has a large picnic table if you just want to stop by for a quick bite instead of eating your car or at work. All in all, it is maintained beautifully MOST of the time. BUT Bristol’s goose population keeps getting bigger & bigger and they do have a hard time occasionally, keeping up with the droppings, mostly near the East end of the park(by the pond). It is usually very well maintained though. If you walk around the whole three to four block area, it’s approximately 2 miles from Barnes Spring to Downes Street. Personally, since getting my high energy doggie, just from walking this area, I’ve lost 52 lbs(& have clocked 1350 mi per my GPS). It’s especially beautiful in the Spring & Fall!
Dan R.
Classificação do local: 4 Simsbury, CT
Running through Bristol, there’s a stretch of Route 72 named Memorial Boulevard. It’s pretty much between Main Street and Blakeslee Avenue. It’s a lovely area with parkland and trails on both sides of the road. Memorial Boulevard is quite the appropriate name for this stretch, because the grassy areas bisected by the boulevard contain eight monuments honoring veterans from the Revolutionary War through Vietnam. This review is about one of those monuments; but trust me, this gets confusing. «The Hiker» statue is a copy of a pre-existing statue depicting a soldier from one war, but it’s dedicated to the soldiers of a different war. Confused? Yeah, I was too. Let me explain. This«Hiker Statue» on Memorial Boulevard is a 1983 replica of the same statue used in Bristol’s 1929 Spanish American War monument over on Park Street at Muzzy Field. When the Memorial Boulevard version was dedicated in 1983, it was meant to honor all soldiers killed in WWII. It’s a very detailed bronze statue of a Spanish American War soldier hiking with a rifle held in his right arm. He’s dressed in the manner of his time(1898), wearing a wide brimmed hat, a military jacket, and knee high boots. Check out the jaunty angle of his hat. He looks like a bad-ass Indiana Jones. The plaque’s inscription reads: The Hiker Spanish American War Soldier Given By The Vanesse Family In Memory Of Deceased World War II Veterans November 12, 1984
