Flower Garden | One Of 10000 Lakes: Buffalo Lake
There’s always somebody doing something at Buffalo Lake. In fact, most families are doing several things all at once: dad fishing from the dock, mom weeding in the public flower garden while their teenager rolls around in the skateboard park and the youngest plays on the swing set.
When Buffalo city officials set out in the mid-1990s to develop the shoreline that skirts the southeastern edge of downtown, they decided to include something for everyone. Literally. The city polled the residents to ask what they wanted.
The result is an eclectic mixture that includes everything from a fountain to boat rentals, a boardwalk to a band shell, exercise stations to a basketball court and a picnic pavilion to a playground. There’s also a spring that people use to fill water jugs, but Mother Nature gets credit for that.
Still, there’s still a sense of waterside calm because the park is spread out over half a mile. There’s room for the lunch crowd, freed for an hour from their desks, to sit on benches listening to lapping of the waves. Room for the
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