What is "lakeside park"

Lakeside Park may refer to:

• Lakeside Park, Kentucky, a small city in the United States
• Lakeside Park, New Jersey, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Lakeside Park (Bratislava), an office complex in the capital of Slovakia
• Lakeside Park, formerly Lakeside International Raceway, an Australian motor racing facility
• A song by Rush about Lakeside Park in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
• Lakeside Park, a city park on Lake Merritt in Oakland, California
• Lakeside Park, Guildford, a Local Nature Reserve in England

Lakeside Park is a single from Rush's third album Caress of Steel. The music was written by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, and the lyrics were written by Neil Peart. The song details Peart's memories of many summers spent at the park.

The "Lakeside Park" mentioned in this song is on the shore of Port Dalhousie, a suburb of St. Catharines, Ontario, on the south shore of Lake Ontario in Canada. Peart lived very close to Lakeside Park, and spent summers as a child working and playing there. The lyrics mention the "24th of May", which is Victoria Day, commemorating Queen Victoria's birthday.

The actual Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie overlooks the War of 1812 wreck sites of the USS Hamilton (1809) and the USS Scourge (1812). The smaller of the two piers in Port Dalhousie has been used as a staging area for most of the Hamilton–Scourge survey expeditions to the wreck sites, since the early 1980s.

Neil Peart gave some insight regarding the song:

Geddy Lee gave a somewhat unfavorable mention of this song in a 1993 interview:

The song was played in part, for the first time since the mid-1970s, on the 2015 R40 tour. In a 2016 interview with Guitar World, Lee reaffirmed his distaste for the song, but agreed to include it in the setlist when Lifeson expressed interest.

Lakeside Park is a historic "pleasure ground" park located at Owasco on Owasco Lake in Cayuga County, New York. It is a park located within the boundaries of Emerson Park, a municipal park system. The property includes four contributing design and architectural features: the remaining park, including the primary and secondary paths and walkways, vistas, vegetation, and cast-iron lampposts and benches; and the Pavilion, Carousel Shelter, and Refreshment / Concession Stand. The park was originally designed and laid out in 1895 by the Auburn and Syracuse Electric Railroad Company. A Charles I. D. Looff carousel was installed in 1900. In 1908, this ride was replaced by another Looff carousel. The focal point of the property is the Pavilion; a Colonial Revival style dance hall and restaurant facility completed in July 1912. The Carousel Shelter, a twelve-sided structure built in 1921, once held a 1915 Herschell Spillman Company carousel with 51 animals. In 1972, it was converted into a summer theater. The Refreshment / Concession was also built in 1921 and moved to its present location in 1921.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.