The next park that we visited during our summer tour was Franklin Park in Sterling Heights, a simple neighborhood park in the middle of a subdivision. What makes this park nice is the shade and the elementary school located next door which offers several play structures.
Date of visit: Monday, June 18 2007
Date review posted: Friday, June 22 2007
Rating: 
- All the basics for a fun time
Located on Franklin Park Drive (17 1/2 Mile) between Ryan and Dequindre in Sterling Heights (Google Map),
Franklin is a neighborhood park with one playscape, one fenced tennis court (net is missing), a simple fall field, and a fenced in baskeball court. There's plenty of open space available too. The highlight of this park is that it's located adjacent to Schuchard Elementary School which also has several playscapes and lots of swings to explore. Parking is either on Franklin Park Drive or in the parking lot of the school (recommended). There are no restrooms.
Although simple, there are plenty of mature trees in the park itself offering shaded play and benches for parents to watch. The play structures in the school yard are all in the full sun and there are no benches.
The boys spent about an hour between the structures in Franklin Park and the Schuchard yard and had a good time. As this was our third park in one day, after that hour it was time to go home for dinner or we may have spent even more time here.
Franklin Park is a nice quiet place to play for younger kids in the neighborhood but probably isn't someplace we'd visit if we didn't live close by.
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