User:Jcochenour/Peters park

General Information
Peters Park is small community park located in the South End neighborhood of Boston, MA. It's boundaries are Shawmut Avenue, Watham Street, Washington Street and East Berkley. The park provides roughly 5 acres of multiuse activity spaces, including a baseball field, basketball courts, a children's playground, lawns and an off-leash dog run. The park is open from 6:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m.

Sports Spaces
Along the East Berkley side of the park is a little league baseball field. More information about use of the field can be found at http://southendbaseball.com. Peter's Park also contains two full-sized basketball courts with an asphalt playing surface. The courts include bleachers for fans to watch. Next to the basketball courts is a tennis court and two handball courts.

Dog Run
Withing Peter's Park is the Joe Wex Dog Recreation Space, Boston's first city-sanctioned off-leash dog park. The run is over 13,000 square feet and opened in November 2007. A separate smaller are in set aside for the use of small dogs (under 25 pounds).

Art
Peter's Park has two areas set aside for art work. The first is a "Mural Wall" by the tennis court. The wall is occasionally refreshed local graffiti artists with permission from the park. A second artistic project is the LandWave, a permanent landscape sculpture currently being constructed. The projected is expected to be completed in the Spring of 2010. More information can be found at LandWave.org.