Peters Park is a small community park located in the South End neighborhood of Boston

Boston

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, MA. Its boundaries are Shawmut Avenue, Watham Street, Washington Street and East Berkley. The park provides roughly 5 acres (20,234.3 m²) of multiuse activity spaces, including a baseball

Baseball

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 field, basketball

Basketball

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 courts, a children's playground

Playground

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, lawns and an off-leash dog run. The park is open from 6:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m.

Sports Spaces

Along the East Berkley side of the park is a little league baseball field. More information about use of the field can be found at http://southendbaseball.com. Peter's Park also contains two full-sized basketball courts with an asphalt

Asphalt

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 playing surface. The courts include bleacher

Bleacher

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s for fans to watch. Next to the basketball courts is a tennis

Tennis

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 court and two handball

American handball

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 courts.

Dog Run

Within Peter's Park is the Joe Wex Dog Recreation Space, Boston's first city-sanctioned off-leash dog park

Dog park

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. The run is over 13000 square feet (1,207.7 m²) and opened in November 2007. A separate smaller are in set aside for the use of small dogs (under 25 pounds).

Art

Peter's Park has two areas set aside for art

Art

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 work. The first is a "Mural Wall" by the tennis court

Tennis court

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. The wall is occasionally refreshed local graffiti artists with permission from the park. A second artistic project is the LandWave, a permanent landscape sculpture

Sculpture

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currently being constructed. The projected is expected to be completed in the Spring of 2010. More information can be found at LandWave.org.