Woodland playground gets family thumbs-up

Published April 7, 2011 in the Commercial Appeal

Thanks to the Greenline, Shelby Farms Park has gone from being a place we rarely visited to being a part of our everyday lives.

My 8-year-old can ride his bike with us all the way from our house in Midtown to the park and back. We've spoiled our 6-year-old with the hitch-hiker attachment that allows him to ride on the back of his dad's bike, but this year it's his goal to make it to the park and back on his own. Now that the new Woodland Discovery Playground is opening in the Plough Park area of Shelby Farms, he is even more motivated to get there.

We visited the playground on Tuesday afternoon during the members-only sneak preview. It is fabulous, and it exceeded every one of my high expectations. I am so happy that my boys are still young enough to enjoy it. (Honestly, after watching them play for a bit, I thought that a parents' night at the playground might be in order.)...(Read more).