Bles Park
Bles Park is a community park offering a variety of outdoor activities including walking trails with scenic river views, soccer fields, and a playground. The trails provide opportunities for wildlife observation and nature appreciation, with some areas being gravel and others paved. Amenities include public restrooms. The park has a natural, slightly unkempt feel with overgrowth in some areas, but it remains a quiet and enjoyable place for walks and hikes.
Reviews
We love this quiet park for the awesome trails. Easy walk even with a stroller or bike.
Hiked with my Sheepadoodle along the Patomac Heritage Trail from Bles Park to the Goose Creek Canal. 10k round trip. Nice river view and Selden Island. The trail to include the golf courses along the way were deserted on a cold and windy Sunday afternoon.
This park’s alright, but a typical Loudoun park, largely unkempt, minimal facilities or maps of the little park, and is threatened by further development from the so-called board of supervisors. Its flora are mostly invasive with some natives, which is perhaps better than data centres or ubiquitous housing projects here, but natives like oaks certainly host more species than the invasives. It does protect some floodplain, wetland, and pond habitats and is apparently home to some coyotes, endangered species of plants and and other neat animals. Worth a visit, but nearby Claude Moore Park is much better. Some football pitches, but they’re tarpped and closed for winter like other Loudoun parks. I’m sorry these are funded by your tax dollars, but you’re still not allowed to use them.
Nevertheless, please, please show your support for the park to protect whatever little green space we have left.
There are lots of trails here that run around the Potomac River. I saw deer, blue herons, white egrets, red-winged blackbirds, cardinals, ravens, crows, a baby frog,a black snake, a salamander, small toads, turtles , a red fox, bunnies, dragonflies, moths, and butterflies. Cotton plants, wild blackberries and wild Raspberries grow on the trails.
This is a good community park with a wide variety of things to do: there are plenty of walking trails, four soccer fields, and a small playground for the kids. I spent an hour walking on the trails, and overall they aren’t bad. However, some of the trails were gravel instead of paved, and I also saw signs that a few of them were currently closed. There were places where weeds were popping up in the middle of the trails and other places where the overgrowth on the sides of the trails was getting out of hand. These issues aren’t that big of a deal and the park is still good despite them, but with some upkeep this would be a 5/5 park.