If you want to be cool, helmet’s the rule.

The skate park at Scalzi Park is tentatively scheduled to reopen April 1st. This year, the park will have attendant enforcing a helmet rule.

Scalzi is probably Stamford’s most active parks when the weather gets nice. Its central location serves a number of neighborhoods including Bull’s Head, West Side, & the Downtown which brings in a diverse population. Nearly the entire square footage is carved up for the sporting life. Aside from the aforementioned skate park, there is a number of softball fields filled by an army of local and corporate leagues, some free range cricket & parking lot soccer, basketball courts, tennis courts, hand ball courts (mostly used by friendless tennis players), a roller hockey rink (mostly used by soccer players), Volleyball court and my personal favorite: the bocce courts. If you want a lesson in humility, jump in a league game with the old Italian guys who play Tuesday nights in the summer. My friend and I were owned so handedly one night last year that the competition decided they could starting taking our beer.

Like the majority of Stamford parks, Scalzi a little run down (aside from the skate park and tennis courts which are both pretty new) although I think I remember reading somewhere the city was planning to do some renovations. There are also plans to connect Scalzi as part of the Mill River greenway that will run along the river down to the sound. All of that is well and good, but Scalzi Park already sealed its awesomeness in my book when I saw a hawk eat a seagull alive there.