Why their work is important

A Gateway to Penarth

St Joseph's Park (The Zigzag Path) has become one of the major gateway travel routes for cyclists and walkers going to & from Cardiff and The Penarth Marina area and The Town Centre on top of the cliffs. It offers a gentle, vehicle free-route within a short distance of Cardiff Bay Barrage, The Pont-y-Werin Bridge, and the Penarth Rd & Barry Road junction, meaning users can avoid the busyness of the Windsor Rd Route and the steepness of Paget Rd.

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Because of this, the park has a good number of visitors per day. FoSJP believes that as an introduction to Penarth it should be seen as a good representation of the town beyond and will look to help maintain, improve and enhance it for this purpose.

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Sustainable Active Travel Route.

With the current drive towards encouraging people to ditch the cars and find alternative, more eco-friendly forms of transport, St Joseph's Park can play a key role in this for those travelling through the area. The park itself is particularly designed for this. FoSJP can look for ways to utilise this key feature as well as collaborate with other groups and organisations who promote such activities. ​

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A Place of Wellbeing

While it may not be obvious that the park is a place that can be stopped and admired while passing through, it is actually quite a relaxing location once you notice this. Its quiet, has places to sit and offers a lot of natural features to discover. At night it is gently lit by path lights and there are bats often seen flying about.