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Booker Creek Park, which for all intents and purposes was useless until its 2007 revamp, sits behind (north) of Edward White Hospital, between 9th Ave N and 13th Ave N, just west of the 275 Freeway. Although it lacks mature trees and shade is sparse, it is a fine and underutilized lakeside park with observation piers, a playground close to 13th Ave N,  and a .75 mile paved walking/jogging track. The roar of the freeway is tolerable on the West side of the park, which butts up against the site of a former (now empty and pleasant, but up for sale) trailer park. I find myself taking my little dog there more and more often, feeling he is probably safer there from from pitbull attacks than at Crescent Lake Park, although Booker Creek Park (not to be confused with “Brooker Creek” in North Pinellas County) does look like prime urban alligator habitat. Which is part of its charm, actually.