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Louisville Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. ...

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Louisville Metro (Jefferson County)

Frederick Law Olmsted Parks

The Frederick Law Olmsted Parks (formerly called the Olmsted Park System) in Louisville was the last of five such systems designed by

Frederick Law Olmsted Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of landscape architecture in the USA. Olmsted was famous for co- ...

. All of the parks in this system are managed by Louisville Metro Parks.

Flagship

Cherokee Park Cherokee Park is a municipal park located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States and is part of the Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy. It was designed in 1891 by Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture along with 18 of L ...

Iroquois Park Iroquois Park is a 725-acre (3.0 km²) municipal park in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed Louisville's Cherokee Park and Shawnee Park, at what were then the edges of the city. L ...

Shawnee Park Shawnee Park is a municipal park in Louisville, Kentucky. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed 18 of the city's 123 public parks. Along with the rest of the city's Olmsted-designed park system, Shawnee Park was added to the Nati ...

Other parks

* Algonquin Park * Baxter Square * Bingham Park — Originally known as Clifton Park (Locals called it Coral Park) Central Park Sentier

* Boone Square *

Central Park Central Park is an urban park in New York City located between the Upper West Side, Upper West and Upper East Sides of Manhattan. It is the List of New York City parks, fifth-largest park in the city, covering . It is the most visited urban par ...

* Chickasaw Park * Churchill Park * Elliott Square *

Seneca Park Seneca Park was the last park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted's Olmsted Brothers, firm in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The park system in Louisville was the last of five designed by the Olmsted firm. The park resides in the Louisville ne ...

* Shelby Park * William B. Stansbury Park — Originally known as Third Street Playground * Tyler Park * Victory Park * Wayside Park * Willow Park — Originally part of the main entrance to Cherokee Park

Parkways

* Algonquin Parkway *

Eastern Parkway Eastern Parkway is a major road that runs through a portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it was the world's first parkway, having been built between 1870 and 1874. At the time of ...

* Northwestern Parkway * Southern Parkway * Southwestern Parkway

Other parks managed by Louisville Metro Parks

Parks not managed by Louisville Metro Parks

* Auburn Park ( Jeffersontown) * Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve *

Blackacre Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead Blackacre State Nature Preserve is a nature preserve and historic homestead in Louisville, Kentucky. The preserve features rolling fields, streams, forests, and a homestead dating back to the 18th century. For visitors, the preserve features sev ...

* Bowling Park ( St. Matthews) * Brown Park (St. Matthews) * Dayton Avenue Park (St. Matthews) * Arthur K. Draut Park (St. Matthews) *

Fort Nelson Park Fort Nelson, built in 1781 by troops under George Rogers Clark including Captain Richard Chenoweth, was the second on-shore fort on the Ohio River in the area of what is now downtown Louisville, downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Fort-on-Shore, the do ...

* Founder's Square * Garvin Brown Nature Preserve * Harrods Creek Park ( Prospect) * Jefferson Square *

Louisville Waterfront Park Louisville Waterfront Park is both a non-profit organization and an public park adjacent to the downtown area of Louisville, Kentucky and the Ohio River. Specifically, it is adjacent to Louisville's wharf and Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere, which ...

The Parklands of Floyds Fork Floyds Fork is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 13, 2011 tributary of the Salt River in Kentucky, directly south and east of Louisville. It begins in Henry County, ne ...

: ** Beckley Creek Park ** Pope Lick Park ** Broad Run Park ** The Strand ** Turkey Run Park *

Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere is a public area on the Ohio River in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Although proposed as early as 1930, the project did not get off the ground until $13.5 million in funding was secured in 1969 to revitalize the downtow ...

* Robison Park (

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) * St. Matthews Park/Community Center * E. P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park * Shively Park ( Shively) *

Six Mile Island State Nature Preserve Six Mile Island is a nature preserve in Louisville, Kentucky located on the Ohio River. About The Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves owns and manages the preserve and was dedicated June 24, 1979.

* Skyview Park (Jeffersontown) * Veterans Memorial Park (Jeffersontown) * Warwick Park (St. Matthews)

Kentucky metropolitan counties outside Jefferson

Bullitt

Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest is a 16,137 acre (57 km2) arboretum, forest, and nature preserve located in Clermont, Kentucky (25 miles south of Louisville, Kentucky, United States). Bernheim was founded in 1929 by Isaac Wolfe Bernh ...

Meade

Otter Creek Outdoor Recreation Area Otter Creek Outdoor Recreation Area (formerly Otter Creek Park) is a 2,600 acre (11 km²) riverfront park in Meade County, Kentucky. The park is located near Muldraugh and Fort Knox, along State Highway 1638, near U.S. 31W. Although it i ...

— Operated by the

Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, an agency of the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, is responsible for the conservation of wildlife resources and for boating projects in the state. A commissioner appointed by the ...

Nelson

* Bardstown Community Park * Dean Watts Park (Bardstown) *

My Old Kentucky Home State Park My Old Kentucky Home State Park is a List of Kentucky state parks, state park located in Bardstown, Kentucky, United States. The park's centerpiece is Federal Hill, a former plantation home owned by United States Senator John Rowan (politician), ...

* Jones Avenue Park (Bardstown) * Woodson/Rogers Park (Bardstown)

Oldham

* John T. Walsh Park ( La Grange) * Wendell Moore Park ( Buckner) * Wilborn Park (La Grange) * Yew Dell Gardens ( Crestwood) * Creasy Mahan Nature Preserve ( Goshen) * Community Convention and Aquatic Center (Buckner)

Shelby

* Clear Creek Park ( Shelbyville)

Spencer

* Taylorsville Lake State Park — includes

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, which extends into

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Counties.

Trimble

* Milton City Park (

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) * Trimble County Park (

Bedford Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of the Bedford built-up area (including Biddenham and Kempston) was 106,940, making it the second-largest settlement in Bedfordshire, behind Luton, whilst ...

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Indiana metropolitan counties

Clark

Jeffersonville parks and recreation

* Bob Hedge Park * Colston Park * Connie Seller Park * Highland Park * John Wilcoxson Park * Lansden Park * Lottie Oglesby Park * Meijer Little League Fields * Oak Park * Optimist Park * Port Fulton Park * Shannon Memorial Park * Shirley Hall Park * Vissing Park *

Warder Park Warder Park is located in Jeffersonville, Indiana on Court Avenue. This park has been a part of the community since the mid-19th century, when it had a bakery to produce hardtack to Union soldiers during the American Civil War. The park wasn't ...

* Wathen Park

Clarksville parks and recreation

* Ashland Park * Beechwood Park * Cedar Park * Colgate Park * Gaskell Park * Lapping Park * Little League Park * Midway Park * Moser Park * Parkwood Park * Ray Lawrence Park

Others and state parks

* Perrin Park — Privately owned; located in Jeffersonville *

Charlestown State Park Charlestown State Park is an Indiana state park on in Clark County, Indiana, in the United States. The park is on the banks of the Ohio River, east of Charlestown. It was once part of the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant (INAAP), and was donate ...

* Clark State Forest *

Falls of the Ohio State Park Falls of the Ohio State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is located on the banks of the Ohio River at Clarksville, Indiana, across from Louisville, Kentucky. The park is part of the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conserv ...

Harrison

* Buffalo Trace Park * Harrison-Crawford State Forest * Hayswood Nature Reserve

References

Parks A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are urban green space, green spaces set aside for recreation inside t ...

Lists of parks in the United States by city