Decorative Park Lighting

There are three important things to consider when lighting a park. Safety of course is the first consideration, because no one wants to go to a park at night if someone who is up to no good is lurking about in dark places. Effective commercial park lighting keeps pedestrian areas from threatening shadows and provides an ambient, decorative visibility around rest areas that helps set the mood for a quiet evening away from the traffic and noise of nightlife.

Because it plays such a pivotal role in setting the emotional tone for such an evening, park lighting have to be very decorative in order to provide an aesthetic compliment to the natural surroundings. Easy Rack inventories an enormous diversity of fixtures and lamp types when it comes to making your park, boardwalk, or hotel garden more attractive and relaxed. People often romanticize the past as a better, less stressful time, and so any type of fixture with an antique, early American style, or classic European look, will often help contribute to the feeling of time standing still. Also, most park lights feature more symmetrical geometric designs and more intricate decorations, so they offer a much better fit to a natural, outdoor setting than typical flood lights, parking lot lights, security lights and other industrial lights generally do.

Large companies with high-end landscape lighting systems often decorate sidewalks and outdoor seating areas with park lights. Even though these areas may not be technically considered “parks” in the same way as New York’s Central Park or LA’s Griffith Park, they nevertheless call for the same blend of safety lighting and decorative theme as larger, official park areas require.

It is important to keep in mind, too, that park lights have to be diversified in both height and fixture model to create a true sense of design throughout the grounds. Lights on decorative poles provide general lighting for open areas and walkways. Smaller lights that lie lower to the ground provide decorative accent lighting to emphasize landscaped features, hedges, flower gardens, and trees. Easy Rack lighting bollards are an excellent source of this type of accent lighting. Approximately the size of an industrial bollard, a park lighting bollard gives off just enough light to illuminate any number of natural landforms and vegetation types, and it provides an excellent source of path lighting as well. Park lighting bollards can be used to line sidewalks, rotundas, fountain areas, and the bases of stairways so people can clearly see where they are walking but never consciously notice the source of the light because it radiates at a subdued level of intensity.

Pole mounted fixtures can be obtained from your Easy Rack specialist in any number of ornate styles that are fitted with special reflectors and glare shields to direct lighting into the park but keep it out of the surrounding neighborhood. Dark sky laws have now been passed in most cities that strictly control light pollution, so it is important to purchase your park lighting fixtures from a company like Easy Rack who knows these laws and who fulfill your sense of style and decoration without violating any municipal regulatory codes in the process.

Before making a final selection today, speak at length with an Easy Rack lighting specialist who can help you carefully balance the three demands of security, decor, and dark sky regulatory compliance. Working with an expert will save you from a costly mistake, and it will also offer you the added benefit of a referral to a qualified lighting designer who has experience in everything from lighting parks to lighting parking garages can help you specify your equipment.

As you continue to read through our selection of commercial lighting and material handling equipment products, keep in mind we stand ready to answer any questions you may have about our offerings. Contact us at 888-776-3720 whenever such questions arise and let us help you make the best investment within your budget to ensure home field advantage and continued stability in shifting markets where prosperity can still be guaranteed through wise decisions.

Easy Rack carries a wide variety of outdoor decorative pole lighting fixtures, commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting, used pallet racks, as well as modular prefab buildings installed nationwide.

Our lighting design center is located in Houston, Texas with warehouse lighting fixtures available throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., El Paso, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, Boise ID, Atlanta GA, Raleigh-Durham NC, Washington DC, Albuquerque NM, Huntsville AL, Fayetteville AR, Norfolk VA, Madison WI, Atlantic City, NJ, Phoenix, AZ, and Las Vegas, NV.