Latta Park is a 31-acre urban park at 601 East Park Avenue in the
Dilworth neighborhood of
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populo ...
. It features courts for tennis, volleyball, and basketball, as well as many benches and picnic facilities, playgrounds, walking trails, fitness trails, and soccer fields. Latta Park was designed to be kid-friendly and is one of the five Charlotte parks that feature a "sprayground", a water themed playground where children can splash and jump.
Latta Park, as well as the neighborhood it sits in, are both named after Edward Dilworth Latta, the early 20th century Charlotte entrepreneur and real estate developer. The park was designed by the English landscape architect
Joseph Forsyth Johnson
Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840 – 17 July 1906) was an English landscape architect and disciple of John Ruskin. . Adjacent to Latta Park is the Tom Sykes Recreation Center.
Originally, Latta Park covered a much larger area and even included a baseball park, 1/3-mile cycling track, and grounds rented by the Mecklenburg Fair Association. The
Charlotte Hornets
The Charlotte Hornets are an American professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Hornets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division, and pla ...
minor league baseball team played home games at the
Latta Park Baseball Field
The Latta Park Baseball Field was a ballpark located in Latta Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. Its capacity was approximately 1,000 for baseball.
Edward Dilworth Latta, Mayor F. B. McDowell, and others formed the Charlotte Consolidated Constru ...
, and the Philadelphia Phillies and Brooklyn Dodgers practiced and played spring training exhibition games at the ballpark in 1899, 1900, and 1901.
References
External links
Map of Latta Park
Parks in Charlotte, North Carolina
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