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The Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves owns and manages the preserve and was dedicated June 24, 1979. [2] The reserve is an undeveloped riverine island and is known for its extensive variety of waterbirds. [2] Even though the preserve has a variety of birds, not many people visit the island as the only access is by boat.
18 Mile Island has a sandy beach facing Indiana, and a narrow channel separates it from the Kentucky shore. When it went up for sale along with the 900-acre Clifton Farm in the 1990s, a Courier ...
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]
The Louisville Zoological Gardens, commonly known as the Louisville Zoo, is a 134-acre (54 ha) zoo in Louisville, Kentucky, situated in the city's Poplar Level neighborhood. Founded in 1969, the "State Zoo of Kentucky" currently exhibits over 1,200 animals in naturalistic and mixed animal settings representing both geographical areas and biomes ...
Jim Patterson Stadium, home of University of Louisville baseball; Kentucky International Convention Center; KFC Yum! Center, home of University of Louisville basketball; Knob Creek Gun Range (in Bullitt County near West Point), famous for its twice-yearly machine gun shoot; L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium, home of University of Louisville football
Shawnee Park is a municipal park in Louisville, Kentucky.It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed 18 of the city's 123 public parks.Along with the rest of the city's Olmsted-designed park system, Shawnee Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Joe Creason Park is a municipal park in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.Located in the Poplar Level neighborhood, it is in roughly the central portion of the city. The park adjoins and connects to Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve, and both were originally part of the same property prior to becoming parks.
Louisville Waterfront Park is both a non-profit organization and an 85-acre (340,000 m 2) [1] public park adjacent to the downtown area of Louisville, Kentucky and the Ohio River. Specifically, it is adjacent to Louisville's wharf and Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere, which are situated to the west of the park. Once a wasteland of scrap yards and ...