List of parks in the Louisville metropolitan area

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The following is a list of parks, forests and nature preserves in the Louisville metropolitan area .

Contents

View of Downtown Louisville from the overlook atop Iroquois Park. Iroquois park.jpg
View of Downtown Louisville from the overlook atop Iroquois Park.

Louisville Metro (Jefferson County)

Frederick Law Olmsted Parks

The Jefferson Memorial Forest is the largest municipal urban forest in the United States. Jcf-tuliptree trail 6-2.JPG
The Jefferson Memorial Forest is the largest municipal urban forest in the United States.

The Frederick Law Olmsted Parks [1] (formerly called the Olmsted Park System) in Louisville was the last of five such systems designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. [2] All of the parks in this system are managed by Louisville Metro Parks.

Flagship

Other Olmsted parks

  • Algonquin Park [3]
  • Baxter Square [4]
  • Bingham Park [5] — Originally known as Clifton Park (Locals called it Coral Park)
Walking trails in Central Park, located in the Old Louisville neighborhood. Central Park Sentier.jpg
Walking trails in Central Park, located in the Old Louisville neighborhood.

Parkways

Other parks managed by Louisville Metro Parks

Parks not managed by Louisville Metro Parks

Louisville Waterfront Park, once an industrial wasteland, Louisville's reclaimed waterfront now features trees and walking paths WaterfrontPkDwnt.jpg
Louisville Waterfront Park, once an industrial wasteland, Louisville's reclaimed waterfront now features trees and walking paths

Kentucky metropolitan counties outside Jefferson

Sign at the entrance of Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, 25 miles south of Louisville. Bernheim Sign.jpg
Sign at the entrance of Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, 25 miles south of Louisville.

Bullitt

Meade

Nelson

Oldham

Shelby

Spencer

Trimble

Indiana metropolitan counties

Postcard of a scene from Cherokee Park at the base of Baringer Hill, early 20th century. CherokeePark4-0.jpg
Postcard of a scene from Cherokee Park at the base of Baringer Hill, early 20th century.

Clark

Jeffersonville parks and recreation

[114]

  • 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

[115]

  • 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

Harrison

See also

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