7/16/25 Letter to the editor regarding Skyline Parkway Changes at Enger.

 

I hereby offer gratitude to The City for their accomplishments in delivering the nonmotorized arc around Enger Hill.  Well done, beautiful, simple. Thank you for doing it. Thanks for giving it a try. Good job.

I also want to urge my fellow citizens to get up there and check it out. Take a walk. Hold hands. Bring a dog. Ride a skateboard. A unicycle. Bike. Stilts. Pogo stick. Bring a chair. Catch some rays. Bring a table. A chess set. Scrabble. Twister perhaps. Take the family photo for next Christmas. Hold a class. Hold a meeting. Meditate. Do yoga. Practice dance, ballet. Practice karate. Do magic tricks. Read the News Tribune. Have a little picnic, a sandwich, a cup of coffee. Bring a guitar, bring a sax, bring a violin, a harmonica. Perhaps have a Banjo and/or Accordian Day. Maybe. Read a book, write a book. Bring a visitor, relish that look of envy for your town in their eyes. After all, there is nothing else anything like this in any other town in the state, at least to my knowledge. Just stare at that view. Bring a blanket, a stroller. Yell at the kids when they stand on one of those rocks by the edge. Get up there. It’s yours. It’s ours.

Park up on Enger, take in the fantastic flowers, climb the tower, bang the gong. Take the trail down to Skyline. Or the ample lane down.

Park at Twin Ponds. Use the recently improved bridge across the creek for access.

Get up there! Have some fun! Cruise the Crescent!

P.S. Have you seen the tablets recently installed along The Incline Steps/Trial? They are planted at intervals. Explore that path. Remarkable. And thanks to those responsible for doing that too.

- Jeff “Smitty” Smith, Skyline Parkway, Duluth MN.