playground closed
Crime tape signals children to stay off playground equipment on Friday, March 27, 2020, at Turtle Park in St. Louis. Many area park goers seem to be practicing the new etiquette, veering off walking trails to allow safe leeway for passersby and spreading out to enjoy warmer weather and emerging blooms. But as people congregate in neighborhood parks, rangers and staff have kept an eye out for distancing, sometimes shooing away pickup baseball and basketball games, and, as St. Louis staff did Friday, placing yellow caution tape around playgrounds.