Lexington Parks

[3-8-21 update. Since I have pictures of all the parks we've visited, I thought I would write blog posts about our experiences. These are not meant to be exhaustive "reviews" -- more a record of our experiences.  I didn't start with the goal of visiting all the parks in Lexington; at first, I just wanted to go to all the parks with paved paths so the big boys could ride their bikes/scooters. Then it expanded to all the parks in "safe neighborhoods."  By that time, we were playing on playgrounds again, and I figured we might as well just go to all of them.  Each park name is a hyperlink to my blog post about our experience there. You can also click on the address to view it on the map. There's a user-friendly park map and list on the LFUCG website. Let me know if any of my links are inaccurate--this has been a labor of love!]

Addison Park (1150 Garrison Ave.)

Armstrong Mill Parkway (1301 Armstrong Mill Road)

Beaumont Park (2034 Williamsburg Drive)

Beaumont Preserve (2020 Allegheny Way)

Belleau Woods Park (3770 Forest Green Drive)

Berry Hill Park (3489 Buckhorn Drive)  

Brucetown Park (770 Florida St.) 

Burley Park (301 Burley Ave.) 

Cardinal Run Park North (2101 Parkers Mill Road)

Cardinal Run Park South (2000 Parkers Mill Road)

Castlewood Park (201 Castlewood Drive)

Charles Young Park (215 Midland Ave.)

Henry A. Tandy Centennial Park (251 W. Main St.) 

Clay's Spring Park (200 Clinton Road)

Clemens Park (1960 Old Higbee Mill Road)

Coldstream Park (1850 Pisacano Drive)

Constitution Park (1670 Old Paris Road)

Coolavin Park (550 W. Sixth St.) 

Cross Keys Park (1240 Cross Keys Road)

Deer Haven Park (1937 Deer Haven Lane)

Dixie Park (1850 Eastland Parkway) 

Dogwood Park (2393 Dogwood Trace Blvd.)

Donaldson Park (9790 Tates Creek Road)

Douglass Park (726 Georgetown St.) 

Duncan Park (530 N. Limestone St.)

Eastland Park (729 Roland Ave.) 

Ecton Park (956 Turkey Foot Road)

Elizabeth Street Park (1521 Elizabeth St.)

Elkhorn Park (444 Cane Run Road)

Gainesway Park (3460 Campus Way)

Garden Springs Park (2005 Dogwood Drive)

Gardenside Park (1835 Yorktown Rd) 

Gratz Park (250 W. Third St)

Green Acres Park (1560 LaSalle Road)

Harrods Hill Park (3308 Ridgecane Road) 

Hartland Park (3701 Kenesaw Dr.)

Higbee Mill Park (1421 Higbee Mill Road)

Highlands Park (1991 Mark Ave.)

Hill-N-Dale Park (2351 Maplewood Dr.)

Hisle Farm Park (3601 Briar Hill Rd.)

Idlehour Park (212 St Ann Dr)

Isaac Murphy Art Garden (577 E. Third St.) 

Jacobson Park (4001 Athens-Boonesboro Road)

Johnson Heights Park (846 Johnsdale Dr.)

Kenawood Park (612 Bryanwood Parkway)

Kenwick Park (312 Owsley Ave.)

Kirklevington Park (296 Redding Road)

Lakeview Park (350 Lakeshore Dr)

Lansdowne-Merrick (3190 Montavesta Road)

Liberty Park (2789 Liberty Road)

Lou Johnson Park (190 Prall St.)

Mapleleaf Forest Park (3161 Mapleleaf Drive)

Marlboro Park (1870 Benton Place)

Martin Luther King Park (1625 McCullough Dr.)

Mary Todd Park (525 Rogers Road) 

Masterson Hills Park (277 Lucille Drive)

Masterson Station Park (3051 Leestown Road)

McConnell Springs (416 Rebmann Ln)

Meadowbrook Park (372 Harvard Lane) 

Meadowthorpe Park (333 Larch Lane)

Mount Tabor Park (550 Elk Lake Drive)

Northeastern Park (140 Eastern Ave.)

Oakwood Park (1050 Briarwood Drive)

Phoenix Park (100 East Main St)

Pine Meadows Park (1631 Tazwell Dr) 

Pleasant Ridge Park (1350 Pleasant Ridge Dr)

Preston's Springs Park  (1937 Dunkirk Dr.)

Raven Run Nature Sanctuary (3885 Raven Run Way)

River Hill Park (3800 Crosby Dr) 

Shillito Park (300 W Reynolds Rd)

Southend Park (701 DeRoode St) 

Southland Park (625 Hill-n-Dale Rd)

Southpoint Park (4496 Graves Dr)

Speigle Heights Park (424 Speigle St)

Stonewall Park (3205 Cornwall Dr)

The Arboretum (500 Alumni Dr.)

Thompson Road Park (319 Thompson Rd)

Thoroughbred Park (121 Midland Ave)

Valley Park (2077 Cambridge Dr)

Veterans Park (650 Southpoint Dr.)

Waverly Park (4244 Southmoor Pk)

Wellington Park (565 Wellington Way)

Whitney Young Park (1033 St. Martins Ave)

Wildwood Park (3434 Greenlawn Dr)

Wolf Run Park  (1618 Maywick View Ln)

Woodhill Park (457 Larkwood Dr.)

Woodland Park (601 East High St.)

Zandale Park (750 Zandale Dr)

Grateful to our city for creating and maintaining such an awesome parks system!

[Note: We visited all 88 LFUCG parks in the span of a Covid year. While our quarantine began in mid-March 2020, we didn't actually venture out to the parks system until the beginning of May when we walked to Wellington.  Later in the summer, I set the goal to visit all the parks with paved trails, then expanded it to all the parks in "safe" neighborhoods, and eventually, I figured we might as well shoot for all 88.  There are a few more listed on the Parks and Rec website, but some are just community centers or golf courses (or a model airplane facility!).  And there are a couple that are no longer owned by the city, and the list just hasn't been updated (I double-checked with someone who works in Planning and Design for the Parks and Rec department).  We visited #88 at the end of February 2021. Since I had pictures of each one, I wrote blog posts for each (some super long and some super short and everything in between).  These are not meant to be extensive reviews but more a record of our experiences.].