Our Assets
Trees
Water (+ textures)
Grass
Benches
Gazebo
Steel pedestrian bridge
Picnic tables
Grills
Birds
Entrance pillars + sign
Litter !!
Open meadow
Pool
Basketball court
Tennis court
Signs
Gates
Road
Sky & clouds
Leaves
Welcome Map
Park Dimensions
Perimeter = 2122 Meters
Answers to Our ?'s
VR Scenes viewed/played on laptop & mobile devices + VR goggles.
Sound design - water, birds, people, ambience.
Start at southern Woodland Entrance, walk along trail going north and wrapping around Keney Park Pond. 15-20 min walk. Focusing mainly on southern part of park.
Urban wildlife - squirrels, fish (trout!), maybe rabbits.
Think as if you are a park user walking around in a beautiful weekend.
Interesting / highlight facts about the park at entrance.
Keney Park Entrance Text
Keney Park is one of the largest designed landscapes in the United States, composing of 684 acres. It includes 584 acres in Hartford and 110 acres in Windsor. Keney Park is one of the nation’s oldest parks in the City of Hartford. It was an initial gift of 533 acres by investor and wholesale
grocer, Henry Keney, to the City of Hartford in 1894, and it expanded the City’s then emerging park system. On August 18, 1924 the 533 acres of initial land was deemed ready and presentable for transfer to the City, as directed in Keney’s will. Keney Park was designed by the landscape architectural firm of Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot. Frederic Olmsted is called ‘a father of landscape architecture’ in the U.S. Keney Park was intentionally designed to be a “truly sylvan pastoral landscape.” Over time, it has been enjoyed by generations of Hartford families and visitors, providing not only neighborhood recreation in a historic designed landscape, but also ecologically rich environments. The park’s natural look was designed as a series of typical regional landscapes, including meadows and forests.