This park is only a mile away from my house. I sometimes walk there on Sundays for a change of scenery.
Johnson City is the sister city to Guaranda, Ecuador, and this is our friendship arch dedicated in 1982.
The park is also home to this massive sculpture by Peter Wolf Toth.
The Trail of the Whispering Giants is a collection of sculptures by Hungarian-born artist Peter Wolf Toth. The sculptures range in height from 20 to 40 feet (6.1 to 12.2 m) and are between 8 and 10 feet (2.4 and 3.0 m) in diameter. There are currently 74 Whispering Giants, with at least one in each of the 50 U.S. states and in Ontario and Manitoba, Canada, and one in Hungary. In 1988, Toth completed his goal of placing at least one statue in each of the 50 states by carving one in Hawaii. In 2008, he created his first Whispering Giant in Europe, Stephen I of Hungary in Délegyháza, Hungary, along the Danube River.
This picture shows the massive scale of the sculpture.
I am five feet six inches tall.
Lightning struck the sculpture at some time in the past. Thankfully it survived.
