Would love to see a picture of the location. Why put it in the middle of the yard? Could it be moved further toward property line? How far from fences or other structures, or property line is the outlet right now? Will the water erode at the outlet? If you had to do maintenance on the pipe -- say to clean it out or replace -- you'd probably not want something really big, like a tree, with potential roots in the way.

The best pic I could find right off hand is below. Excuse the quality, I was taking a pic of something else and the pipe happened to make it in. I'll have to get a better pic when I get home.

We have a large yard (several of acres), so that is some of the problem. There are no structures or boundary lines anywhere. It could be moved somewhere else, but that would involve a backhoe and several hundred feet of trenching. I guess it was decided to end it somewhere, and that somewhere was where it ended. The gutters for the right side of the house all go to a different area of the yard which is down the hill and much better. The left side goes here.

The land is fairly level in this area, I don't think erosion is going to be a problem.

There is a thicket of wild trees to the left of the skid steer. I guess if I really wanted to be ambitious I could bring a bed of plantings out from the trees to include the downspout. Or, if I really wanted to do a lot of digging, I guess I could reroute the pipe to head closer into that thicket, assuming there is enough fall.

Hmm. I guess the photo didn't attach? Here is a better pic anyway.

how about a pic of the actual pipe ... if its that white thing out there.. i cant tell ...

could you redig the end.. put in a 90 degree elbow.. and then a grate ... so that the water would just bubble up ..???

btw.. the photo is there ...

i think the term to search if french drain basin ... something like this

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/346495765057616208/

ken

as i closed the window.. i saw just some stacked rocks ... that might be an easy way to hide it ....

Sometimes you work with what you got.

I'd have an honest discussion with the people that matter. Do you want a larger planting bed? A separate, small planting bed? Do you run pipe and move outlet? Or find another way?

For this kind of thing, i tend to yse rick and plants that form a thicket. Rockspray cotoneaster and plants with a similar habit get a lot of use from me in such situations.

I have one downspout pipe that finds daylight in the middle of a yard. Where the people that matter said they wanted grass, no bed, make it work, and they did not want to see the pipe. I cut the pipe at an angle and spray painted it green. Graded to the edge of the pipe, and if you are more than a few feet away, you never know.

I think I'd just put a big picnic table over it.

Grouping of boulders, as suggested. But arranged in a naturalistic way, so as to look like they belong there. Like they are the very top of a mostly buried rock formation.

If there are ever children on the site this could double as a play feature. And it would give the lawn a focal point, an element that adds visual interest. A lawn which at the moment looks like an athletic field or playground at a school.

How do you use the yard? How would you like it to look? Do you have time and energy for gardening or the finances to hire someone to garden for you? Do you have kids who use this as a play area? Would you prefer the current large open area or would you rather have a garden island or peninsula? If you haven’t considered how you want to use your yard and how you want it to look, it is difficult to make useful suggestions on how to solve the pipe problem. Until you have a larger plan, perhaps just do some safety mitigation such a large rock or a flag placed to draw attention to the trip hazard.

Have to respond to Dave's suggestion to move it to the property line... NO! Diverting water to someone else's property is highly unethical and usually illegal!

I thought of that also.

Which reminds me that I discovered during one particularly wet period that people behind me have a buried, nearly completely concealed drain pipe that empties onto my place, right at the fence line.

(The same people who complain about my security lights, have been known to reach over the fence as far as they can and cut back my shrubs).