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HARTFORD LIVE WORK PLAY MILL POND PARK offers a peaceful retreat in the Hartford suburb of Newington. The other city parks also offer a relaxing respite from the daily grind, oen adding history to the mix. • Downtown Hartford's Bushnell Park, dating from 1854, includes an antique carousel and such monuments as the Corning Fountain. It's also the site of the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz and the Hartford Marathon. • Colt Park, which covers 114 acres, was established in 1905 from the former Armsmear estate of Samuel Colt and Elizabeth Jarvis Colt. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it has playscapes, a swimming pool and splash pads, sports fields and Dillon Stadium. • Elizabeth Park, opened in 1897, is the "horticultural gem of the Hartford park system, with its many gardens, sweeping vistas, notable trees and greenhouses," the Parks and Recreation webpage explained. It's also home to the first public rose garden in the U.S. and is on the National Register. • Designed by Olmsted, the father of American landscape architec- ture, 237-acre Goodwin Park is in the south end of Hartford and extends into Wethersfield. • Hyland and Rocky Ridge Parks, which include lots of playing fields, were opened for public use in 1911. • One of the largest public parks in New England, Keney Park is almost 694 acres and dates from 1896. It was designed as a series of typical regional landscapes, with meadows and forests, and features Keney Park Golf Course, rated by Golfweek Magazine as the second best public golf course in Connecticut. STEVEN LASCHEVER PHOTOGRAPHY 47 HBJ HARTFORD LIVE WORK PLAY