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Several nature preserves are located
within Louisville Metro. The Kentucky State
Nature Preserves Commission owns and
manages the 41-acre Beargrass Creek State
Nature Preserve which is adjacent to
Creason Park, the 170-acre Blackacre State
Nature Preserve and the 81-acre Six-Mile
Island State Nature Preserve. The Louisville
Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve
Nature Center is also located in Creason Park
next to the Beargrass Creek Nature Preserve. The Blackacre Conservancy manages the Blackacre
State Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead (total of nearly 300 acres).The nonprofit land
trust Riverfields owns and manages the 46-acre Garvin Brown Nature Preserve adjacent to Hays
Kennedy Park. All are open to the public.
There are a number of parks and recreation facilities that are owned and managed by
the suburban cities or neighborhood associations within the boundaries of Louisville Metro.
Cities such as Prospect, Shively, St. Matthews, and Jeffersontown all have parks within their
incorporated boundaries. A partial list of these parks is:
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Anchorage (Anchorage Trail)
Audubon (Henderson Park, Robin Park, Oriole Park, Triangle Park, Curlew Park)
Brownsboro Farm (Brownsboro Farm Park)
Butchertown Neighorhood Association (Karen Lynch Park owned by MSD)
Douglass Hills (Warren Walker Park, Bill Lile Running Creek Park)
Eastwood (Eastwood Recreation Center)
Hurstbourne (Hurstbourne City Park)
Hurstbourne Acres (Stanley B. Welch City Park)
Jeffersontown (Auburn Park, David L. Armstrong Recreation Center, Gaslight
Recrea tional, Workplace and Pedestrian Trail System, Plainview Swim Center,
Plainview Tennis Center, Skyview Park, Veterans Memorial Park, Jeffersontown
Football Complex)
Lyndon (Robsion Park, Romara Place)
Middletown (Wetherby Park)
Norwood (Norwood Park)
Parkway Village (Village Green Park)
Phoenix Hill Neighborhood Association (Lucille Grant Park)
Prospect (Cowley Park, Harrods Creek Park, Little Hunting Creek Park, Putney
Pond and the Woodlands Park)
Shively (Shively Park)
St. Matthews (Arthur K. Draut Park, Brown Park, Community Park, Holzheimer
Park, Warwick Park)
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