The phrase “something for everyone” is one of those shopworn, hackneyed phrases journalists love to overuse, along with the phrase “let’s face it” and the word “avid.”

No one in real life uses the word “avid” on a regular basis, but reporters love it.

So let’s face, um, facts: Rockridge does not have something for everyone. If you’re an avid player of team sports, Rockridge is probably not your best bet.

Rockridge Park is a great spot for solo sports enthusiasts.

Don’t worry, sports buffs: Loads of other Bend parks have amenities for team sports aficionados. Want to play team softball? Get thee to Skyline Sports Complex. There’s league cornhole play at The Pavilion, also known for hosting winter hockey. You can get a full-court basketball game going at Larkspur and Ponderosa parks, or save yourself some sprinting by playing hoops on a half-court at parks including the fairly new Little Fawn Park, which opened in October in Southeast Bend.

A while back, Bend Park & Recreation District set out to make sure there’s a park a ½-mile or less from every Bend resident, and true to their word, down in Southeast Bend, we finally got Little Fawn, just a short walk from my home of 19 years.

But if I were signing 30 years of my income away today, it would be for a house near Rockridge, located at 20885 NE Egypt Drive. Rockridge thrives on solo sports. If you want to try to resurrect or learn a favorite skateboard trick, you can do so in Rockridge’s moonscape-style skatepark, built about nine years ago by Evergreen Skateparks, a company that specializes in such lunarscapes, which board sports enthusiasts lap up. While you’re rolling around, your partner can jog or set a personal best by running a few laps on Rockridge’s 1-mile paved path or 800-meter fitness loop.

Want to work on your mountain bike skills on a low-key course? Rockridge.

Maybe you just want to play a short round to work on your disc golf putt instead of putting steps on your phone.

Here again, Rockridge, where there’s a nine-hole (baskets, really) putting course cleverly arranged among the junipers and native grasses.

For children/future rock climbers, there is a natural play area with a juniper forest of smoothed and repurposed trees harvested from local parks. Kids can also clamber on “log steppers, boulder scrambles and a climbing tree,” according to BPRD’s website for Rockridge. A second play area at the other end of the 36.6-acre park offers more traditional features and a tree house.

The park also has sheltered picnic tables with a seating capacity of 40, and if members of your party prefer to stand, then you can fit 100 beneath the roof, and it’s adjacent to a sizable grass field should anyone want to throw a Frisbee or get a soccer game going. There are also a couple of smaller tables with umbrellas that all but beg for someone to sit and drink a coffee while reading a book or their favorite news publication.

But the park is not overly built out. In fact, according to BPRD, “Rockridge Park was designed with a minimal footprint to maintain over 60% of the original terrain as natural space. It is characterized by its natural look, with old-growth juniper, rugged lava rock outcrops and swaths of sage and bitterbrush which makes you feel like you’re miles outside of town.”

But you’re not, so please watch out for kids, families and adult skateboarders in the parking lot.