Following is a list of

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s, forests and nature preserves in the Louisville

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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. 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 *

Chickasaw Park Chickasaw Park is a municipal park in Louisville, Kentucky's west end. It is fronted to the west by the Ohio River and by Southwestern Parkway to the east. It was formerly the country estate of political boss John Henry Whallen, and began developm ...

* Churchill Park * Elliott Square * Seneca Park * 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 *

Northwestern Parkway The parkway system of Louisville, Kentucky, also known as the Olmsted Park System, was designed by the firm of preeminent 19th century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The system was built from the early 1890s through the 1930s, and ...

* 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 Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve is a nature preserve located in Louisville, Kentucky's Poplar Level neighborhood, in roughly the central portion of the city. It is named for Beargrass Creek, the south fork of which passes along the northe ...

* Blackacre Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead * 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, Kentucky. Fort-on-Shore, the downriver and first on ...

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

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) * Jefferson Square * Louisville Waterfront Park *

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 ( Lyndon) * 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 — Operated by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources

Nelson

* Bardstown Community Park * Dean Watts Park (Bardstown) * My Old Kentucky Home State Park * Jones Avenue Park (Bardstown) * Woodson/Rogers Park (Bardstown)

Oldham

* John T. Walsh Park ( La Grange) * Wendell Moore Park (

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) * 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

Taylorsville Lake Taylorsville Lake is a artificial lake or reservoir located mainly in Spencer County, Kentucky. As of 12/19/21 Taylorsville Lake has become a hotspot for migrating ducks. According to Central KY Waterfowlers the lake is currently holding a record ...

, which extends into Nelson and Anderson Counties.

Trimble

* Milton City Park (

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) * Trimble County Park ( Bedford)

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 * Wathen Park

Clarksville parks and recreation

* Ashland Park * Beechwood Park * Cedar Park * Colgate Park * Gaskell Park *

Lapping Park Lapping Memorial Park is a park located in the town of Clarksville, Indiana. The park is a park that features play grounds, a Disc Golf course, softball fields, golf, tennis courts, basketball courts, volleyball space, horseshoe pits, amphitheat ...

* 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 Clark State Forest, located just north of Henryville, Indiana in the United States, is Indiana's oldest state forest, formed in 1903 as a forest research facility and a nursery and later expanded by the Works Progress Administration. Originally 2 ...

* Falls of the Ohio State Park

Harrison

Buffalo Trace Park Buffalo Trace Park is a public park preserve in northern Harrison County, Indiana near the town of Palmyra, Indiana. The park is along the edge of the old Buffalo Trace, a historic bison migration trail that was later converted into a road. In ...

* Harrison-Crawford State Forest *

Hayswood Nature Reserve The Hayswood Nature Preserve is a county park owned by the Harrison County, Indiana Park and Recreation Board. The Samuel P. Hays donation The preserve was donated to the citizens of Harrison County in 1969 by Samuel P. Hays, A Corydon native and ...

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