Fairfax Station

I am from Fairfax Station, Virginia. Fairfax Station has undergone significant developement throughout my entire life, sprawling with houses and a few new strip malls to accomodate new neighborhoods with grocery stores and gas stations. Fairfax Station is the epitome of "suburbia." This community is very large and many of the homes sit on huge parcels of land. Fairfax Station is not walkable. There are many one lane roads, particularly headed from Fairfax Station to Clifton, Virginia, and these roads also do not making biking feasible. Though Fairfax Station is filled with large houses far apart and a community where driving is necessary, this area has done a great job of mainitaining green spaces and parks. Burke Lake Park is the most well known park in Fairfax Station. It actually is connected to my neighborhood, which I love. The lake is beautiful and has large pathes for walkers, bikers and runners. It also offers boating for recreation, golfing, frisbee golf, small scale fishing is permitted and there is a carousel, playground and train for children as well as an ice cream parlor. On weekends, many people are seen camping. Also, the wildlife there is bustling with deer, herons, geese and the most famous creature at Burke Lake, the "swoose," which is a goose and swan cross.