The Hacienda Business Park Parcourse was designed by Bissell & Karn with warm weather fitness for park employees in mind. Beginning at Hacienda Drive, the 2.3 mile course features 18 exercise stations of varying degrees of difficulty.

The Parcourse stations along the route in Hacienda are:

• Achilles Stretch

• Sit and Reach

• Touch Toes

• Knee Lift

• Jumping Jacks

• Log Hop

• Step-up

• Circle Body

• Body Curl

• Chin-up

• Hop-kick

• Vault Bar

• Sit-up

• Push-up

• Bench Leg-raise

• Hand-walk

• Leg-stretch

• Balance Beam

The founder of the Parcourse system is Peter Stocker, a San Francisco developer. The first Parcourse system was installed in Mountain Lake Park in San Francisco in 1973. Today, Parcourse has installed more than 3,200 facilities in all 50 states and 20 foreign countries, with the highest concentration in the Bay Area.

To see a reproduction of the original article and edition of Pleasanton Pathways, visit: June 23, 1986 Pathways.