ARE ALBUQUERQUE’S CITY PARKS NOT AS GOOD AS THEY USED TO BE? LAST YEAR, THE PARK SYSTEM WAS RANKED 17TH BEST AMONG 100 CITIES NATIONWIDE. BUT THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND’S 2018 PARK SCORE INDEX PUT ABQ AT NUMBER 40…A DROP OF 23 POSITIONS. WHILE ALBUQUERQUE’S PARK SYSTEM DID WELL IN SOME AREAS, IT SCORED POORLY WHEN IT COMES TO THE NUMBER OF RESTROOMS AND SPLASHPADS.
PARKS DIRECTOR DAVE SIMON TELLS THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL THE RULES WERE CHANGED THIS YEAR BY INCLUDING THOSE TWO CATEGORIES AS PART OF THE AMENITIES FACTORED INTO PARK RATINGS
