5.14.24 - Great park with playground, beach, ducks, covered picnic area, benches along the hike,…read morerest shelters, clean restroom.

Great little park for all sorts of activities. Honestly one of my favorite places in town. The…read morewalks are nice, there are so many different paths, and the scenery is idyllic. There's also a beach for fun and swimming. A lot of fishing also goes on here. There's a good sized shelter with plenty of tables too. A great place to hang out with family and friends or just enjoy some time on your own outside.

stunning such a nice informational ride out there beautiful walk. Would recommend for all agesread more

This was a pretty cool and quick 20 minute walk to breeze through. Pretty and peaceful. Completely…read morepaved easy path.

Great skate park. Not huge so could be dangerous if full. But super awesome for Freeport.read more

Stellar park "centrally" located with access to bars, beers stores, a diverse range of ethnic amd…read moredomestic restaurants, and is two blocks from Willy Street Co-op so a prime picnic stop. Central Park Farmers' Market is awesome! Central Park Sessions provides a venue for world music! Make Music Madison bands are all around the space! Everything from techno, zydeco, bachata, house, and swing can experienced at Fête de Marquette! You skate, spend some time at the skate park! Basically a lovely neighborhood party that is extremely versatile and changes with the seasons!

Central Park, I love you so!…read more I love this place. It is such a great use of land. I was so happy when they started developing it. It's long and narrow shape allows for so many things! I enjoy Fete de Marquette the most of all the festivals/events that take place here. Food, music, a Ferris Wheel! Lots of vendors to browse and even cool activities for the kiddos. 10/10 recommend! I attended the Isthmus Food Cart Fest here, too. Wow that was a BUMMER. I won't get into how much it sucked..... But, it was still a nice set-up at this park. The park also has a skate-park at one end. It's brand new (within the last 2-3 years) and seems to be pretty popular. About midway, there is a really nice brand new restroom facility as well. There is a farmers market weekly in the warm months, too!

The ice was good, the Referee room was good, use the shower got cleaned up before heading out. Easy…read moreaccess into the building towards the Ref room. Zamboni guy was great. Helped us get things wrapped up before we left. Parking was great. Skated on the small rink everything went well. I will return and I recommend.

Open skate is really nice. They don't allow hockey during open skate which is nice because it's…read moreless intimidating for kid's learning to skate. The have metal pushers available or milk crates. The milk crates are awesome because you can stack them to the right height, so kids can skate upright instead of being leaned over with a short pusher. They play music during open skate. There are nice wooden bleachers for observers.

Basic prefab street course with quarter pipes and a pyramid…read more But I came for the beautiful 3' mini ramp. Tons of fun.

My men's softball league moved to Verona when Bowling Green Recreation Center finally shut down…read morethis year. While excited about the new venue, I was sad to leave a memorable (yet dilapidated) setting. After fours weeks of play at Hometown USA Community Park, I have to say the complex is pretty nice. There is ample parking for the amount of people that come through there. The two softball diamonds (next to the ice arena) are in very nice shape. They don't get chewed up too bad as the night progresses, though in the later games you might get some funny hops through the higher-traffic areas. The fences are long enough that more balls are in play, but it's not impossible to get a home run. I like that challenge. The shelter near those fields houses relatively clean bathrooms. The covered area will be good if we encounter rain - it's a large enough area to hold all of us while a shower passes. Nice. The shelter also houses a concession stand. They are fairly well stocked, but it's "cans only" for beer (no taps or pitchers). Also, they don't pop their own corn. Well, they DO, but it's microwave popcorn. Basically, the concessions are whatever they can buy in cases and sell through the window. It's serviceable, but it could be so much better. For the rest of the enormous complex, I haven't been able to experience any of that. I appears to be just as nice as what I've seen, and people I know enjoy spending their time there for baseball games, their kids' games, etc.

I was in the area picking something up and decided to take a short walk through this park. My…read morenephews and I used to come here in Spring when everything was still covered in snow, and in winter, the park is popular for cross-country skiing, so I'm quite familiar with it. I've also attended a foraging class here through the Madison Public Library, which was a great experience. The trails are easy to walk, but keep an eye out for black walnuts that ripen and drop onto the ground--you could easily step on one and twist an ankle (as I unfortunately did). Along the way, you might spot squirrels and hear birds singing in the bushes. I even came across some mushrooms, which reminded me of the foraging class. There's a restroom facility and a pond nearby, and in winter, local families love coming here for sledding on hill. I've done it myself--it's a lot of fun, just make sure to protect your back on the way down! Don't say I didn't warn you!

I went recently to try out the ice skating and had a blast. It cost 6$ to rent ice skates and you…read morecould skate for as long as you want until the rental place closed. If you have your own skates you can skate for as long as you want. They have 2 rinks, one for regular ice skating and the other for hockey. They have the green assistance rollators, for when you need assistance ice skating, that are useful. The ice was chipped in some areas, but overall good quality. There is a huge hill close by that looks like it can be sledded when there's more snow.