Yesterday's post was about Bunnyhenge, which is one of the art installments at the Newport Beach Art Park. I had ridden by this many times on the bus, and finally decided to walk around it one day last year. Once I started walking through it, there were just a bunch of things that would make cool photos, so I started snapping pics. Here are a few of them.
At the top of this park, near the big bus stop,there are two dog parks, one for big and one for small dogs. There are several parking places along Avocado Avenue, by the dog park. When you head down hill on the side walk, there are some small sculptures and art pieces. The trail swerves up to the left. One part swirls in a loop uphill, with more art pieces along it. The other part head over a walk bridge over San Miguel Drive. There's a cool lookout spot at the end, where the top photo was taken from. From the lookout spot,you can head down the steps or the elevator to the lower section of the park, that reaches from San Miguel down to the Civic Center parking lot.
The path goes two different ways. There's a statue of President Ronald Reagan, and then Bunnyhenge just past him, and a picnic table, and three multi-colored arches. If you head the other way, the path winds through the lower part of the park. There are a whole bunch of various sculptures, as well as flower and some native plants. It smells really good through that area, from the aromatic plants there. As I walked around, shooting photos, I saw a couple real rabbits in the bushes, and a couple of lizards on the edge of the path.
If you're a parent with small kids, say 3-4-5 year olds, Bunnyhenge will almost certainly be a hit with the kids. If you're an adult in that part of Newport, this is a great little place to talk a walk and clear away the day's stress for a bit. It you like shooting photos, or are a YouTuber or big on social media, this art park has a ton of cool backgrounds and places that look great in photos of video. In addition to Bunnyhenge (see previous post), there's the big bunny further down, in this photo above. This one's about 7 feet tall. So for a wide variety of people, art lovers to little kids, this is a great art park to visit for a while when you're in the Newport Beach/Fashion Island Mall area.
These are a few of about 20 photos I shot on my walk through this park, a few months ago. I'll put the rest on Pinterest at some point, on my Steve Emig's Crazy California page. Like I've said a couple other times, this blog is about physical locations, some of which are just cool looking, like this one, some which may be historical, some which maybe be tourist spots (like my posts about Hollywood earlier in this blog), and I'll check out a bunch of action sports related places, too, since I'm a Has Been, Old School BMX freestyle and skateboard industry guy. So if the Newport Beach art park looks fun to you, go check it out, I had a fun time wandering through it, and snapping these photos.
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