Blue Cypress Park Fitness Course - Jacksonville, FL
N 30° 22.565 W 081° 36.486
17R E 441572 N 3360616
This fitness course is located in Blue Cypress Park, a city-owned park in the Arlington section of Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WM3DP9
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 03/20/2008
Views: 54
This fitness course is a loop that begins and ends at a Pulse Monitor Check station. There are eight stations, including the Pulse Monitor Check station. The stations are unnumbered but are located along a paved path through the front section of the park, making numbering unnecessary. The posted coordinates take you to the Pulse Monitor Check station. The course starts near the park's playground then wanders around a small pond and then past a community center and a swimming pool. The course then crosses the main road running through the park and takes you through a lightly wooded area and past the golf clubhouse and then to the main entrance to the park. The course doubles back for a couple of hundred feet from the main entrance to another road crossing that leads you past the tennis courts and the playground and back to the Pulse Monitor Check station.
All but one station, which is now blank, provide directions on the type of activity one should perform there. We have walked the course, but have never made use of the fitness stations. It's a nice little walk (or run if that's your preference) through a nice park.
Blue Cypress Park was at one time a local 18-hole golf course for the Edenfield River Estates development. Because the park is located in an environmentally sensitive area, plans were developed to reduce the course to a 9-hole golf course and use the remaining area for a natural, resourced-based public outdoor recreation site. The original facilities included a community center (former clubhouse) and swimming pool, golf course, and tennis courts. In July 2001, a fishing dock, and a boardwalk along the St. John’s River were completed. In 2003, the 9-hole golf course opened. In 2004, soccer fields, trails, new tennis courts, and a concession restroom building were added.
Number of Stations: 8
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Degree of Difficulty: Easy
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Visit Instructions:
To log a visit to a Fitness Trail waymark please post a picture of yourself (or a partner) at one of the stations performing the exercise and let us know what the exercise is. If you are alone, an original picture of one of the stations will suffice.