SOUTH BEND â St. Joseph County Parks will dedicate its new River Ramble Natural PlayScape at St. Patrick s County Park on Saturday, a more-than-$500,000 project that has been in the works for nearly two years and that was paid for through crowd-sourcing and county dollars.
The event will begin with a ribbon cutting at 9:30 a.m. that will be streamed live on the St. Joseph County Parksâ Facebook page. Then there will be an open house with family activities from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
River Ramble is closed now through Friday, though, for final preparations. Kids have already been crawling through the hollowed-out log and metal tunnel, pumping water, playing in sand, swinging on large, net-like hammocks, using the composting toilet and other nature-play features.