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Wrights Pond Opens: Saturday, June 21st
Tufts Pool Opens: Monday, June 23rd
Mission Statement
The Medford Park Division is responsible for maintaining more than twenty-four parks and playgrounds, passive parks, Riverbend Park and Hormel Stadium and in the summer months, Wright’s Pond and Tufts Pool. These sites comprise over 118 acres of land. In the parks and playgrounds you will find twelve tot lots, twenty tennis courts, twelve and one-half basketball courts, twenty-two ball diamonds, two football fields and various soccer fields.
Our objective each day is to make sure the parks are free of litter and debris, the barrels are emptied, the tot lots are safe for children to play, the grass is cut, ball diamonds are groomed and lined, soccer fields and football fields are marked out and Wright’s Pond and Tufts Pool are enjoyable environments for swimming.
Maintaining all of the above is made more difficult because of vandalism, graffiti, people who do use the litter barrels for their household trash and of course the dog walkers who allow their dogs to leave a mess in the parks. Per a City Ordinance from the Medford Park Commission CH. 14, Sec. 43, 43A. “NO DOGS ARE ALLOWED IN PARKS”.
Every spring after winter each park is visited and checked for safety and maintenance problems. These include but are not limited to painting benches, tables, shade structures, basketball hoops, etc., spreading wood carpet under tot lot structures, adding dirt and re-grooming ball fields, adding sand to the beach at Wright’s Pond to planting flowers for Memorial Day.
Parks and playgrounds are used continuously from the first week in April (when sometimes the weather is against us) to the last Saturday in November. Sometimes the weather does not cooperate as was the case with all the rain we had April-June. Ball games can’t get played, the grass cannot get cut and everything gets pushed back which creates extra work in less time. But when the weather cooperates there is no better place to be than in Medford parks, playgrounds and swimming areas.
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