The city’s largest parks lie along the Saline River. The 50-acre Curtiss Park on Michigan Ave. is a rolling, grassy park that sits below Oakwood Cemetery, the burial site of Saline founder Orange Risdon. The green space continues north along the river for another 54 acres as Mill Pond Park. Both parks have picnic areas, pavilions, play areas, and opportunities for cross-country skiing; Mill Pond has soccer fields and a play structure. Four-acre Stonecliff Park is near the river at the end of Saline River Dr.

Two neighborhood parks provide play areas—Marlpool Tot Lot, in a subdivision just east of Old Creek Dr. and south of Michigan Ave., and Risdon Park, on the corner of S. Ann Arbor St. and Pleasant Ridge St.

Thirty-four-acre Tefft Park, at Woodland Dr. E. and Textile Rd., includes the Saline Recreation Center, a picnic area, and a 5.5-acre natural area. There is a wintertime ice-skating rink and ungroomed cross-country ski trails. Both People’s Park (at Ann Arbor and Monroe Sts.) and Brecon Park (on N. Harris) have basketball and tennis courts. People’s Park also has a four-acre natural area, and Brecon Park offers nature trails. On Willis Rd. just east of Ann Arbor St. and south of Michigan Ave., Canterbury Park provides four acres of play and picnic area. Also on Willis Rd. is Wilderness Park, a 28-acre natural area with walking paths that overlook a pond, and good fishing, birding, and cross-country skiing. Other small parks are scattered throughout the city.

Sandra B. Richardson Park, 115 acres off Platt near Willis, is mostly undeveloped fields and woods with some rough trails and soccer fields. Mary J. McCann Park, off Warner Rd. north of Willis, is an undeveloped preserve with no public access.

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