Best Intown Parks
Our list of the best intown Atlanta parks.
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Below are our recommendations for Intown Parks in Atlanta. These selections came from our past winners of Best of Atlanta, recommendations from readers who voted in the past 2 years of Best of and from our critic’s personal choices. Please leave comments below about your ideas to add to this list.
Best Intown Parks
Atlanta Beltline Inc
Headquarters of Atlanta Beltline, a 22-mile loop of trails, greenspace, and parks that circles the city.
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Atlanta Botanical Garden
Atlanta’s most fragrant attraction blooms with more than 3,000 ornamental plants spread over 30 acres adjacent to Piedmont Park, including a rare 15-acre urban forest. There is a 600-foot Canopy Walk situated 40 feet high, and regular exhibitions and concerts in the gardens.
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Candler Park
A 55-acre greenspace with outdoor pool, tennis courts, playground, picnic area, and recently restored soccer field sits in the middle of the neighborhood with the same name. The renovated nine-hole golf course now includes a restored, naturalized creek.
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Cascade Springs Nature Preserve
Established in 1979 with city, state and federal funds, the 120-acre woodland and former Creek Indian settlement features steep inclines, a babbling creek, a waterfall, and is home to deer and more than 150 native plant species. It includes an old spring house where tourists once bathed and the rema...
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Centennial Olympic Park
The best thing to come out of the 1996 Olympics is this stately public plaza with dancing fountains, cool light towers, and a variety of spring and summer music series. A redesign of the park is in the works as part of the city’s larger re-envisioning of Downtown.
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Constitution Lake Park
It’s easy to forget that Constitution Lakes lies inside the Perimeter, considering how much wildlife thrives amid this 200-acre park located deep in Southeast Atlanta. The wetlands boardwalk offers a peaceful journey into a primitive Georgia landscape, where cedar waxwings, green herons, kingfishers...
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Doll’s Head Trail
Out past the Starlight Drive-In Theatre, heading south on Moreland Avenue is an Atlanta cultural gem: the mythical DOLL’S HEAD TRAIL. Created by ATL’s Joel Slaton, the trail is an outsider art exhibit with enough weirdness and compelling art made from refuse to leave you contemplating its existence ...
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Fernbank Forest
Wikipedia: Fernbank Forest is a 65-acre mature mixed forest that is part of Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, Georgia. It has some relatively old trees compared to much of the forests in the Piedmont.
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Freedom Park
Spanning a whopping 210 acres, this is one of the largest city parks in Atlanta. Dog walkers can admire the park’s permanent art installations along the walking trails. Bicyclists can follow its network of multi-use paths to some of the city’s coolest neighborhoods — or link up with the Atlanta Belt...
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Lullwater Preserve
Located at the heart of Emory’s campus, this park is free to the public during daylight hours. On warm days, the park is full of runners, families, and students trying to get out of the library. Be sure to check out the exterior of the Lullwater House, and go on less-traveled trails to see the Rapun...
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Piedmont Dog Park
The city’s most popular off-leash dog park recently underwent renovations and has new landscaping. The park features a nearly 3-acre dog run, separate enclosures for large and small dogs, benches, and restrooms. The park is located just beneath the Park Drive bridge.
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Piedmont Park
The 200-plus-acre park with tennis, walking trails, and a pond has been Atlanta’s place to go on a Sunday afternoon since it was first purchased by the city in 1904. Piedmont Park added 13 acres in 2013 and unveiled a collection of new entrances. The add-on near the intersection of Piedmont Road and...
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More Intown Parks
10th Street Park
A centrally located pocket park for the community and offers games, passive recreation, seating and a temporary sculpture on the northeast corner of 10th and Peachtree streets in Midtown Atlanta.
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Arthur Langford, Jr. Park
Website: Arthur Langford, Jr. Park is located just a few blocks from the future Atlanta BeltLine Southside Trail in the heart of the Joyland neighborhood. The park is named after the late Arthur Langford, Jr., who served as a member of the Atlanta City Council and the Georgia Senate, and was the fat...
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Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail
The paved and popular 2.25-mile path is part of the larger 22-mile loop of parks, trails, and transit known as the Atlanta Beltline that is changing the city for the better. The Eastside Trail provides a direct route from Midtown to Inman Park/Old Fourth Ward in minutes, a feat unheard of by car in ...
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Atlanta Beltline Northside Trail
With the opening of the Northside Trail in April 2010, the neighborhoods around Collier Hills are now linked by a continuous mile-long trail. The updated trail traverses the Howard Property, “Cathedral Woods,” and Bobby Jones Golf Course, from Ardmore Park to Atlanta Memorial Park through Tanyard Cr...
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Atlanta Beltline Westside Trail
Enjoy the rustic charm of this former railroad corridor winding behind old warehouses, historic neighborhoods, and under bridges while you can. More than $40 million is expected to be spent turning this overgrown gem between Washington Park and Adair Park into a glimmering multi-use path.
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Atlanta Memorial Park
The 200-acre park winds along Peachtree Creek in one of Atlanta’s loveliest neighborhoods. It includes a running trail, fields, playgrounds, 23 tennis courts (at the Bitsy Grant Tennis Center), and the Bobby Jones Golf Course.
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Bessie Branham Park and Recreation Center
The 7-acre park features tennis and basketball courts, baseball fields, a playground, and a $2 million recreation center that houses both a gym and a computer center with free classes for Atlanta residents.
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Brookhaven Park
One of the city’s largest greenspaces, Brookhaven Park is popular with dog lovers. It’s central to the neighborhood and within walking distance of a number of important locations, including Oglethorpe University, the Brookhaven/Oglethorpe MARTA station, and Town Brookhaven, the neighborhood’s behemo...
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Cabbagetown Park
The site of the former Grant School, now Cabbagetown Park, marked the last option for developing a substantial swath of greenspace within the Cabbagetown neighborhood. After years of wrangling over details, price, and land use with the Atlanta Public School system throughout the late 1990s, the neig...
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Deepdene Park
Deepdene Park is the largest and easternmost stretch of the Olmsted Linear Parks on Ponce De Leon Avenue, situated between the city of Atlanta and Druid Hills. It’s a shining example of the kind of park you’ve driven by countless times but never noticed. From the street, there’s no way of knowing th...
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Emma Millican Park
This scenic neighborhood park features multiple play structures, shade trees, paths & picnic areas.
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Grant Park
The 131-acre greenspace that gave the surrounding neighborhood its name is arguably the city’s most mellow and picturesque. On weekends, it’s a stomping ground for family reunions and one of Atlanta’s most popular farmers markets.
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John A. White Park and Golf Course
The 106-acre park contains a 40-acre, nine-hole golf course that remains a bit of a hidden gem in southwest Atlanta, despite its prime location less than 5 miles from Downtown. The park also features picnic grills, a swimming pool, and clubhouse.
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John C Howell Park
John Howell Park is a 3-acre parcel of land located 2.5 miles northeast of the central business district of the City of Atlanta. John Howell was a grassroots civic activist, well-known and well-loved for his extraordinary support of human rights, civil liberties, neighborhood preservation, and the a...
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Lionel Hampton-Beecher Hills Park
The Lionel Hampton-Beecher Nature Preserve is yet another flourishing intown wildlife sanctuary featuring a variety of rugged dirt and paved trails frequented by hikers and mountain bikers alike. The whole area is a haven for wildlife. Deer, box turtles, pileated woodpeckers, and hawks roam the wood...
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Morningside Nature Preserve
Formerly called the Wildwood Forest, it’s a 31-acre woodland plot that was saved after citizens fought to protect the rare and pristine oasis in the city. The nearly mile-long trail is a pleasant trek for hikers and cyclists — and the suspension bridge spanning the South Fork of Peachtree Creek is w...
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Northside Beltline
Winding for approximately 1 mile through Tanyard Creek Park, the Northside Trail treats visitors to one of the most picturesque stretches of the Atlanta BeltLine. Offering a secluded feel that lets city life fade away, it serves as a connector for two previously existing trails. The Northside Trail ...
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Olmsted Linear Park
The result of a public-private partnership between the City of Atlanta, DeKalb County, and Fernbank Inc. that includes six segments — Oak Grove, Shadyside, Virgilee, Dellwood, Springdale, and Deepdene. It was the brainchild of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. in 1890.
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Perkerson Park
Perkerson Park is a lovely fixture of Southwest Atlanta’s Capital View neighborhood. At nearly 50 acres, it’s the largest greenspace in the area, complete with playground facilities, baseball fields, a tennis court, and an active disc golf course. What’s remarkable, though, is the patch of old-growt...
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Phoenix II Park
Phoenix Park II is within the Summerhill neighborhood of Atlanta. It has been developed by the neighborhood over the past few years as part of an ongoing park vision plan. This 7-acre property has standard public park amenities, including several sports courts & fields.
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Selena S. Butler Park
Park, tennis courts, basketball in the heart of the Sweet Auburn neighborhood.
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South Bend Park
South Bend Park is a part of the Southtowne Path Trail which is a 2.7 mile trail in South Atlanta. Scenic river path.
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South River Trail
South River Trail is a system of quiet, paved biking, running, and walking trails interspersed with paths into the woods. It’s a great intown wildlife spot and a true alternative to the Beltline. Ride your bike freely here throughout a varying terrain of trees and paved trails that can take you all ...
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Stone Mountain Trail: hiking the Walk-Up & Cherokee Trails
The Stone Mountain Trail begins near Georgia Tech and runs thru Freedom Park continuously to Stone Mountain Park. The trail is 19 miles long with paths and bike lanes making this one of the most scenic ways to see Atlanta.
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Westside Park
City: The Summer 2021 opening of the $44 million Westside Park will change the surrounding landscape far beyond just becoming the largest green space in the city. It will also serve as a catalyst for Westside neighborhoods and become the home of a critical backup source of drinking water for the ent...
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A Sip of Paradise Garden,
(404) 397-7025
Adair Park I,
(404) 546-6744
Adams Park,
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Ansley Walk Terrace Northeast,
404-892-7886
Apple Valley Rd Park,
678-571-9796
Arthur Langford Jr. Skate Park,
(404) 546-6757
Atlantic Station playground,
(770) 454-7599
Blackburn Park,
(404) 637-0512
Blue Heron Nature Preserve,
(404) 946-6394
Blue Heron Nature Preserve - Emma Wetlands,
(404) 946-6394
Blue Heron Nature Preserve - Land O Lakes,
(404) 946-6394
Boat Rock,
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Centennial Park All childrens playground,
(404) 223-4000
Charlie Loudermilk Park,
(404) 546-6742
Chastain Park Conservancy,
(404) 237-2177
Coan Park,
(404) 546-6813
Daniel Johnson Nature Preserve,
(404) 546-6788