Thornden Park

Thornden's rose garden is (second) most beautiful
By Mary Desmond
November 30, 2011 - 10:57am
The Syracuse Rose Society has cared for Thornden Park's rose garden since 1970, transforming it into a botanical paradise.

Every Wednesday morning from April to November, as the earliest rays of sun filter over the Syracuse University Hill, members of the Syracuse Rose Society arrive at Thornden Park’s E.M. Mills Memorial Rose Garden.

As the sun extends higher in its arc, the Rosarians move through the rows of rose bushes, weeding, planting, pruning, pausing only to share bits of gardening advice.

Keepers of our parks
By Lauren Rae Bertolini
July 27, 2009 - 12:24pm
Residents strive to maintain Thornden and Westminster parks as vital green spaces for SU's neighboring communities.

With her infant daughter in tow, Miranda Hine would walk the few blocks from her home on Maryland Avenue to Thornden Park in the early 1980s.

"It was after four or five months that I was talking to a friend and she said, 'You don't go into the park alone do you?' " Hine said. "And those are a lot of the conversations that you would have with people. 'You wouldn't as a female go into that park alone?' they'd say, and I have been, for the past 30 years, and it's absolutely fine. "