点评:I’ve grown up in the area and have fond memories of this park as a child. But visiting as a parent was very different. We went on a Friday night in the summertime with friends, hoping our combined total of four children under the age of 12 would be able to play while we visited. The park doubles as a venue, so there was a baseball game going on next door and a musical revue in the amphitheater. An arts festival was going on across the river, too, so the place was busy. What troubled us was that it was packed with teenagers. Which is great - they need a safe spot to hang out, and Roseburg is sadly lacking for them - but these kids made the park horribly unfriendly for younger ones. They were rough, their pranks on each other would sometimes affect the young ones near them, their foul language was an education, their PDA was distracting, and their fashion choices included tees with slogans I really didn’t want my kids to read. They crowded the playground, making it hard for the littles to play, taking the swings (even the baby ones). As parents, we had a hard time keeping an eye on what was going on. The visibility at this park isn’t great, and there are no four-person tables along the playground’s edge, so our group was always divided. We were on high-alert for the homeless folks wandering through, raiding the trash cans, too. (It’s a perennial problem at Stewart Park.). The chief of police wandered through, greeting families and handing out badge stickers to the kids, which was great, but there was nothing he could do to improve the experience, and we soon left.
翻译:我在这里长大,小时候对这个公园有着美好的回忆。但作为家长,这次去公园的感觉却截然不同。我们和朋友们在夏天的一个周五晚上去了公园,希望我们一共四个12岁以下的孩子能在我们参观期间一起玩耍。公园本身也是个活动场地,所以隔壁正在举行棒球比赛,露天剧场里正在上演音乐剧。河对岸也正在举办艺术节,所以公园里人头攒动。让我们感到不安的是,公园里挤满了青少年。这很好——他们需要一个安全的地方玩耍,而罗斯堡对他们来说很遗憾——但这些孩子让公园对更小的孩子来说变得非常不友好。他们很粗鲁,互相恶作剧有时会影响到附近的孩子,他们的粗言秽语很有教育意义,他们的PDA让人分心,他们的时尚选择包括印有口号的T恤,我真的不想让我的孩子看到。他们挤满了操场,小孩子们很难玩耍,连秋千都摇不起来(即使是婴儿秋千也摇不起来)。作为家长,我们很难留意周围发生的一切。这个公园的视野不太好,操场边缘也没有四人桌,所以我们这群人总是被分开。我们高度警惕着那些四处游荡、翻找垃圾桶的流浪汉。(这是斯图尔特公园一个老大难问题。)警察局长走来走去,和孩子们打招呼,并给他们发放警徽贴纸。这很好,但他也无能为力来改善这次体验,我们很快就离开了。