Google Map for James River Park System
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The folks at Friends of James River Park set up this great map on Google with all the hot spots along the James. They have more maps here, check it out, or better yet become a member and directly support the good work they are doing.
Wonderful. Now every littering douche will know exactly where every undiscovered spot in the JRPS is… good job ‘friends’.
Jon, it is a public park and should be available to the public, regardless of its douchery. And I’m sure there are a number of non-douches who would enjoy a map as well.
And it is the Friends who organize the cleanups, who truck out tons of trash, who direct traffic at Pony Pasture,who raise money for footbridges and trails. Jon, if you are there, thanks. If not, why not?
#1′s comment is cracking me up: all of the hot spots on the map are hardly “undiscovered”, given the ample signage, publicity, and so forth guiding park users.
Too funny.
Can we have a fringe group: “The Non-Douches of James River Park?”
Sorry for reusing the word – my parents always said that coarse language is for people with teeny and uncreative vocabularies.
For some help with that, see here.
Thanks sundagger and the rest for standing up for the Friends of JRPS. Everybody have their JRPS license plate apps? We’ll be at the South of the James Mkt tmw. Free FOJRP membership with license plate application. Enemies of JRPS don’t offer that deal!
JRPS is the Central Park of Richmond, and this map will help all around the region ‘discover’ this treasure! The more people we have enjoying the park, the more resources will be devoted. This map is great!!!!
More people = more trash. Fact. This park doesn’t need money, this park doesn’t need organizing. It just needs people who can go out and enjoy it on their own, and pick up trash when they see it. Thats it. For once can’t we have a place that can be kept in its natural state? (as much as possible for a park so close to a city.) This includes not going around telling every Tom Dick and Harry where these places are because they are too lazy or whatever to go and discover them on their own.
I’m not really trying to knock friends of the park here. Their intentions are certainly good, but that’s what the road to hell is paved with as they say.
Oh, and…
“all of the hot spots on the map are hardly “undiscovered”, given the ample signage, publicity, and so forth guiding park users.”
ample signage? park users being guided? This is exactly what I’m talking about. They’re going to dumb down this park to the point where it will become an extension of downtown.
The signage has been there for decades, directing people to access points, so apparently by your logic it’s been dumbed-down since the beginning.
Maybe you should get out there and scold Ralph White for promoting the Park every chance he gets…or the mountain-biking community for aggressively promoting the park and enhancing the trail system, and boosting park usership.
It’s a public park in the middle of downtown: if you want a space to be left in it’s natural state then you should look into acquiring some acreage for yourself and barring access.
“In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.” Baba Dioum
Stuffa- Great quote, I haven’t heard that before. I completely agree with you, if someone wants to keep land untouched and for only the owner to enjoy, move to a rural area (my suggestion is Cumberland County). Heck, I’m sure the land is alot cheaper there than here!!