Arlington's Long Bridge Park Opens Saturday
Park is just north of Crystal City, will eventually connect bicyclists and pedestrians to Mount Vernon Trail.
Arlington County has transformed a brownfield north of Crystal City into a massive public park that boasts three full-size, multi-sport fields and will eventually connect to the Mount Vernon Trail with a bicycle and pedestrian bridge. Long Bridge Park officially opens to the public following a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday. "To have the park opening… As you design these things, and you see plans, you wonder what will it really look like?" said Tobin Smith, chairman of the Long Bridge Park Design Advisory Committee. "What's cool is now to see the pictures that are now being taken compared to what was drawn. So, it's really kind of cool to see the vision, what we thought we were creating, to go out and see it, which is really …
