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Get to Know Your Parks: Joe Creason

18. May 2012

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Written by Walter Munday, Outreach and Volunteer Manager for Metro Parks Joe Creason Park, originally called Trevilian Park following its purchase by the city of Louisville in 1966, is a beautiful 62+ acre park located across from the Louisville Zoo in the Highlands. The city purchased the remainder of the former Ben Collings Estate, which [...]

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Get to Know Your Parks: Olmsted Parkways Story

9. April 2012

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This guest post was written by Walter Munday, Volunteer & Community Outreach Manager for Metro Parks. Did you know that Louisville’s approximately 15 miles of Olmsted Parkways are actually considered park land? Yes, that’s right – Algonquin, Cherokee, Eastern, Northwestern, Southwestern and Southern Parkways are parks. Of course, we don’t encourage you to pack up [...]

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Help Louisville’s Portland Park Get a Basketball Court Refresh

30. March 2012

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Sprite and the NRPA are giving away a total of $275,000 to 25 parks across the country to repair, refresh and all around make better their basketball courts. One of these parks is here in Louisville. Portland Park is guaranteed to get at least $5,000 in grant money through the Sprite Spark Parks program but [...]

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Get To Know Your Parks: Gnadinger Park

19. March 2012

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The second entry in our “GetTo Know Your Parks” series comes to us from Jacob Murphy, Communications Coordinator at Metro Parks. When I introduced this series I asked for suggestions on what parks the series should cover and the very first suggestion was Gnadinger Park (thanks for the suggestion Kelley!). If you’ve ever been by [...]

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Parks Madness 2012

13. March 2012

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So it’s March. And there is madness. So why shouldn’t the competitive madness spill over to the parks? We have divided our parks into four regions (Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast) and picked the top 16 parks for each region (‘top’ being determined by the number of online views the park received over the last year). [...]

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Get To Know Your Parks: Hays Kennedy Park

1. March 2012

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This guest post was written by Walter Munday, Volunteer & Community Outreach Manager for Metro Parks. In the aftermath of one of our city’s worst natural disasters in recorded history (1974 Tornado), a beacon of light shined along the banks of the Ohio River in northeast Louisville. Approximately three months after that infamous tornado, neighborhood [...]

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The Vision of a Generation: Photographs from The Parklands of Floyds Fork

29. February 2012

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A new exhibit of nature photography from three Louisville-based photographers opens this Friday at the Green Building at 5PM as part of the monthly First Friday trolley hop. Called “The Vision of a Generation: Photographs from The Parklands of Floyds Fork” the exhibit features work from Bob Hower, John Nation and Ted Wathen. The natural [...]

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Early Warning: Forest Fest May 21, 2011

8. April 2011

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If you dig the bluegrass music (and you should, you really should) then mark your calendars for Forest Fest at Jefferson Memorial Forest on Saturday May 21, 2011. It’s the 8th year for this event which is an all day (11AM-7PM) family-friendly outdoor extravaganza featuring great local music (run-on sentence FTW!). Bands on the bill [...]

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Sherlock Holmes at Iroquois Amphitheater Tonight August 9, 2010

9. August 2010

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More free movies for your? You must have been very, very good this summer. On deck tonight? Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes Free 8PM Also on deck at Iroquois Amphitheater this week? The Black Keys. I didn’t buy tickets to this show because I thought “it’s going to be miserably hot, I don’t want to sit [...]

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PSA: A Bunch of Park Roads Closed for Bike Race

3. August 2010

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Louisville is hosting part of a big bike race (yay us!) this week. This means a big chunk of Cherokee Park roads will be inaccessible to the rest of us for a few days. The roadways, listed below, will be closed to vehicular, cycling and pedestrian traffic on Wednesday, August 4, from 7 a.m. to [...]

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