[Dilbert San Diego]

Wow. Martin Luther King Drive in Cleveland is a good place to visit, an historic street which pulls you into the history?

In too many places, Martin Luther King Drive or Blvd. is in the ghetto, and the conditions there hardly are an honor to King.

[scouter]

If you call this ghetto, then I'd really like to see where you live!

I haven't followed MLK Blvd. the whole way, but I'm referring to the part from University Circle north to the lake.

[hinckley buzzard]

MLK Drive, a parkway long before it was named for MLK, meanders pleasantly from near the shore of lake Erie to the cultural center known as University Circle, home of CWRU. It follows a winding creek through a valley, and the road is lined with an array of gardens called the Cultural Gardens, designed and maintained to celebrate the ethnic groups that settled Cleveland, mostly early in the twentieth century. Recently an African American Garden was added. Overpasses for major east-west streets are artistic creations of stone, with winding staircases from the valley to the upper street level.

Along the parkway is the city Greenhouse, and at its southern terminus is the Botanical gardens, the Art and Natural History museums and Severance Hall. The Cleveland VA Hospital sits at the edge as well.

It is continuously being maintained and improved, with pools and fountains, and is a history lesson to drive down it. Previously unfriendly for pedestrians, law enforcement has cleaned up the surrounding neighborhoods and the park today is useful and frequented by families.

One of Cleveland's well-kept secrets.