If you're cruising around 36th and State, you're either lost, looking for a high-ball, or Sunset Park. If it's Sunset Park you're after, we can help. If you're lost, you're an idiot and if it's a high-ball, remember to bring enough for the whole class.

Sprawling across a cozy 10 acres in the northwest part of Boise, the park was purchased way back in '71 from five guys who didn't own a burger joint (John Fery, Wanek Stein, Paul B. Larsen, Dan Johnson, and Neil Labrum). Originally an undeveloped lot, the City of Boise has turned a patch of weedy semi-desert into a pretty little spot complete with grassy play areas, playground equipment, shade trees, a softball field, tennis courts, and picnic tables.

The playground equipment isn't the newest, but it is nice and my rented five year old had a lot of fun running around and playing, eating woods chips occasionally aside.

Sunset Park is also home to City ran softball leagues. Many a weekday night you can see adults running around in spandex and form fitting pants. Lucky for us, most of the teams are in coed leagues so for every three or four overly-large dudes there's one gal worth oglingglancing at.

Like most public parks, the play fields are reserved for soccer organizations. Non-leaguers are left with weekdays or early evenings on a first-come, first-serve basis.

For the Biffs and Muffys out there, the park includes four high-tech tennis courts. Being as I enjoy real sports, I'm not sure how a tennis court can be high-tech but according to city propaganda the courts feature, "a post-tension concrete overlay surface, a technologically advanced process that significantly improves their life span."

Good news for basketball fans, though. The City recently pimped the court with a new surface, striping, standards, backboards, and hoops. It looks better than it has in a long time and it's waiting for your best LeBron moves.