The streets around Craig Park are Greenwood's post-war heart: ranch homes on generous lots, built when the city was becoming a suburb, plumbed in the materials of that moment — clay tile laterals running to the street, cast iron inside, and silver maples planted in every yard for the fast shade the brochures promised. Fifty-plus years later, all three decisions are fully mature. The park blocks are among the most pleasant in the city above ground, and among the most instructive below it.
A Craig Park lateral lives its whole life under a tree canopy its owners would not trade for anything — which means root management here is not a crisis response but a permanent feature of ownership, like the roof. The homes also run the classic Greenwood basement pattern, with floor drains that report every main-line mood. The neighbourhood's veterans have a rhythm — film, cut, note the interval, repeat — and its newcomers do best by adopting the rhythm in their first year rather than learning it at their first backup.
