Westchester

Westchester's babbling brook

This is a good opportunity to remind our Secret Sidewalk Adventurers to respect private property. Having said that, we here at Secret Sidewalks are all about walking on other people's sidewalks. We figure, that's what they're there for, right. We're not wandering about in other people's backyards or anything (unless they're amazingly awesome backyards) but we have been known to meander onto paths that were probably meant for others. The latest report is an example of just such a path. It's a short one, but we're completists.

Just off 36th Street south of Robinson, Westchester is an edition of rental houses tucked away behind a brick wall like a zombie apocalypse fortification. Each house has it's own garage, but there's a small parking area at N 35º13'33.798", W 97º29'34.8684" where a dirt path leads to our short, rough sidewalk to the rental property's swimming pool. The notable thing about the walk is the waterway crossing and after a good rain (when we went) the babbling brook was as gently soothing as any public park's. The end of the sidewalk is at the pool gate, not much of a walk, but you can tack it onto a longer walk along the less than secret sidewalk that runs along 36th street to Robinson where a longer Secret Sidewalk runs back behind the First Fidelity Bank.

Secret Sidewalk's Bilbo wondering where the pool is