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Atlanta's neighborhoods are dotted with hundreds of neighborhood parks such as John Howell Park in Virginia-Highland and Perkerson Park in the Capitol View/Sylvan Hills area. Freedom Park is Atlanta's largest passive park, with over 200 acres of linear greenspace going through Atlanta's historic east side neighborhoods.
Southside Park is, at 211 acres (0.85 km 2), the largest park in the City of Atlanta. [1] It is located along Jonesboro Road in the southern part of the city just north of the Perimeter (I-285) . Its rank as the city's largest park is set to be eclipsed by the new Westside Park at 351 acres (1.42 km 2 ).
Since then it has hosted a number of outdoor sculpture displays and is a popular jogging, bike riding, and dog-walking park. With the 2012 opening of the BeltLine's busy Eastside Trail, which crosses the Freedom Park Trail just west of the Carter Center, the trail became connected to the large citywide BeltLine ring of parks and trails.
The result was curvy streets surrounding "mini-parks" comprising a total of 25 acres (100,000 m 2). In 1912, these parks were deeded to the city. [12] In 1909, the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect for Central Park in New York, Carey and Frederick Jr. were asked to design the park's master plan while they were at work on Grant ...
In 2011, the Atlanta Memorial Park Conservancy was founded to manage the park, and in 2014 it hosted a massive cleanup that removed over 2 tons of litter from the park and creek. [4] Between 2017 and 2019, the park saw several renovations, including the installation of a new playground , [ 5 ] improvements to the park's sewage system , [ 6 ...
Grant Park is a 131-acre green space and recreational area and is the fourth-largest park in the city, behind Chastain Park, Freedom Park and Piedmont Park. Zoo Atlanta, established in 1889 and originally known as the Grant Park Zoo, is located in the park and attracts more than 1 million visitors annually.
Centennial Olympic Park is a 22-acre (89,000 m 2) public park located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, owned and operated by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority.It was built by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) as part of the infrastructure improvements for the 1996 Summer Olympics.