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Central Kentucky and Louisville parks offer everything from wide, open running, model-airplane-flying, tag-playing, kite flying, cartwheel-and-somersaulting spaces to more structured park and playground play with fossil digs, fountain frolicking, antique carousels, and creative climbing structures.
Central Kentucky Parks
Louisville, has more than 100 public parks comprising more than 10,000 acres, many of which feature wide open, grassy spaces, baseball diamonds, basketball and tennis courts, and state-of-the-art playgrounds. You can even tell your tots to take a hike (accompanied, that is) at Jefferson Memorial Forest on Mitchell Hill Road. The enormous 7,000-acre public urban forest offers many short-but-sweet paved (and long, rugged) hiking trails, playgrounds, and plenty of tables and shelters for pleasant picnics under strong and sturdy centennial oaks. Louisville's Waterfront Park, on East River Road, predictably on the shores of the Ohio River, consists of wide grassy areas, tree groves and walking paths, a top-notch children's play area, and brand new Adventure Playground, complete with a 225-foot sandbox in which kids can get some sand between their toes as they search for buried fossils. Lexington has three outdoor public Creative Playgrounds: Jacobson Park, on Richmond Road, Shillito Park, on Reynolds Road, and the park behind Picadome Elementary School, on Harrodsburg Road, each of which have wooden towers, bridges, cars, and even a lighthouse for those times when your children just simply need to climb.
Central Tennessee Parks
Nashville has its own vast collection of kid-friendly parks. Riverfront Park, in addition to wide-open running and kite-flying spaces, has the famous Tennessee Fox Trot Carousel guaranteed to capture the imaginations of the smallest members of society. One of the largest municipal parks in Tennessee, Percy Warner Park and Edwin Warner Park (adjoined) comprises nearly 2,700 acres of fields, picnic areas, and even a model airplane field. Kids can also run around the grassy knolls of Nashville's beloved Centennial Park (home to the Olympic-sized Parthenon). Moss Wright Park in Goodlettsville, Tennessee is a 147-acre wooded historic park with a large playground and volleyball court. Chattanooga's cool and breezy Coolidge Park situated on the banks of the Tennessee River, has an antique carousel and fountains in which children are allowed to play, and Chattanooga's 20-mile Riverpark has plenty of playgrounds to keep children safely occupied while parents enjoy the walkways and piers.
Skate Parks in Central Kentucky and Tennessee
Central Kentucky and Tennessee have several state-of-the-art skate parks for high rolling skateboarders, in-line skaters, and BMX bikers looking to turn tricks and spin their wheels. Millennium Park in Danville, Kentucky, is a 10,000-square foot skateboard park open everyday, year-round, from dawn to dusk. Also in Kentucky, the Louisville Extreme Park, open 24/7, year-round, is one of the nation's best skate parks. The 40,000-square foot concrete facility includes a 24-foot full pipe and a wooden vert ramp. Nashville, has two skate parks located at Two Rivers Parkway and Sixth Avenue. The Sixth Avenue Concrete Wave Country skate park includes three different areas of skate terrain, a mid-sized flow bowl, as well as angular street obstacles.
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