[LV10101]

19th in the US...I'm not sure why this wouldn't make some question this survey. Parks, planted in the middle of the desert...for the most part not natural.

[NLVgal]

Originally Posted by Merry Lee Gather

You have to be careful in and around parks at night!

Where I come from that's well known as where the drug deals have gone down and some go real bad like people getting jumped, stabbed in the neck and they stumble out from the edge of the trees seeking medical help before they bleed out.

Also a couple young homeless women have been found dead face down drown over the edge of a large water fountain with their pants around their ankles.

I imagine in a city as large as Las Vegas these same nefarious things may also be going on here.

That would actually be big news here. While our violent crime has gone up in the last few years, a rape/ murder in a park would not be a second page story. We have more than our share of shenanegins, prostitution, drug related crimes, and gang violence that has spiked recently, but random acts of violence against strangers are an anomaly.

You want to get trick-rolled, your car broken into, offered some weed, Vegas is your place, but this ain't the South Side of Chicago by any means.

[Merrily Gather]

It wasn't until I moved here that I first heard about what a trick-rolled was.

[tijlover]

It can get pretty spooky walking around Sunset Park between 2-4am, when I usually walk my ferret, the near absence of lights down there. I let the sounds of the ducks be my guide to getting to the lake, as I might get lost otherwise.

Desert Breeze is more lighted, but the police have never run me off like in Henderson.

I consider the homeless in the parks, at that hour, to be quite harmless. And my ferret always seems to dis-arm strangers, as I have yet to run into someone else walking a ferret at night.

[Clarkcty]

Originally Posted by Raiderman

We were very surprised at how well the parks in the valley were maintained. We only frequent a couple (and one is basically a walking path around a drainage basin), but always impeccably maintained. I like Sunset Park very much, both for walking and weekend softball games.

Sunset Park was once a beautiful park but nowadays it is like a ghetto in there. Sure it has recent additions to the park but the feel of Sunset Park has changed.

[Clarkcty]

Originally Posted by tijlover

It can get pretty spooky walking around Sunset Park between 2-4am, when I usually walk my ferret, the near absence of lights down there. I let the sounds of the ducks be my guide to getting to the lake, as I might get lost otherwise.

Desert Breeze is more lighted, but the police have never run me off like in Henderson.

I consider the homeless in the parks, at that hour, to be quite harmless. And my ferret always seems to dis-arm strangers, as I have yet to run into someone else walking a ferret at night.

Desert Breeze in Spring Valley is a beautiful park day and night with the best view of the Strip. Desert Breeze still has more space to expand if we could only get Susan Brager's head out of her a$$ and start developing the vacant huge tracts of land surrounding Desert Breeze. The land on Durango/Flamingo, Desert Inn/Cimarron and Spring Mountain/Cimarron are all part of Desert Breeze Park. Overall, Spring Valley has numerous beautiful parks in its boundaries. Another park worth mentioning with a nice view of the Strip is Charlie Frias Park, also in Spring Valley.