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The Riverwalk parks are the city's walking grounds, and they stand here one by one at walking size. Beutter Park is the promenade: formal gardens, the river race and its overlooks, an 800-foot perennial garden in its plantings, the Shards standing over the course — the ground a visitor walks to be seen walking. Kamm Island is the island circuit, a loop of its own inside the larger one, reached by the footbridges. Battell Park carries the oldest walking in the city — the park ground of the nineteenth century, its paths under mature trees on the north bank. Central Park is the long green reach of the 2015 extension, the walk at neighborhood scale. Merrifield Park adds the contemplative ground: Shiojiri Garden, the Japanese garden given in the sister-city bond, a walking ground designed for slowness inside the sports park's frame. George Wilson Park, on the city's south side bluffs, is the vertical walking — sledding hill in winter, disc-golf and woodland paths the rest of the year. Crawford Park and Mary Gibbard Park hold the east and west neighborhoods' daily rounds, and Kate's Garden closes the west as Marvin's Garden closes the east: two named garden grounds as the course's bookends. That is the roster entire, at the size the parks record gives each ground; together they are why this city's walking is river walking — every major ground but Wilson's bluff stands on the one course.