Nah - that's where you trip over the body of Chandra Levy.

Wow. That's a another example of fine police/media cooperation. Three months and we couldn't hear anything else.

Ran that damn congressman out of dodge.

And now, an unsolved mystery.

But, yup, that's Rock Creek Park.

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If you watch Law and Order nothing good ever happens in Central Park.

For those of you who have never been farther west than the Appalachians ...

Griffith Park has trails, a zoo, trolley town, the Greek Theater, the Observatory and it even abuts Chavez Ravine (I think).

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Well, they did find the body, at least... oh wait, that wasn't the police or the media, it was some random guy walking his dog ;-)

You're right BG, didn't mean to paint RCP or any other park as a high crime area.

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Beeg - I always wanted to find the LaBrea tarpits. Never found them. Closest I got was watching Anne Heche climb down into the utility hole.

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it's good for getting rid of those pesky interns who want to talk to the pres about your relationship with them too!

Belmont Plateau (I forget the official name of that section of Fairmount Park).

I ran many a cross country race there in HS and coached many a runner up and down those hills from my days as an Assistant Track Coach at Temple.

The views are incredible. The most "Philly" park IMHO.

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There is no urban park in my experience to even begin to compare to Fairmount Park, except perhaps, Rock Creek Park in Washington which comes in second.

Both are large and share the major flaw of inaccesability. That is unfortunate but it is kind of neat to have forest in the city.

I rather like Hyde Park and St. James Park in London. Very pleasant and civilized.

Fairmount Park may surpass Central Park as far as the proportions of densely forested parts, but no one can deny Central Park is America's greatest big city park by almost every measure.

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