Parks in Atlanta

Piedmont Park, site of the 1895 Cotton States Expo, is Atlanta's iconic green space. The Midtown park, which underwent a major renovation and expansion in 2010, attracts visitors from across the region and hosts various cultural events throughout the year.^[1] Piedmont Park also features a large 3-acre dog park^[2] with sections for large and small dogs.

Centennial Olympic Park forms a centerpoint for downtown visitors in and around which key visitor attractions are located; nearby Woodruff Park, Georgia International Plaza, and Hurt Park cater to the downtown lunch crowd.^[3]

Grant Park, located on the east side, is home to the city zoo, Chastain Park, the primary recreational center for the northern Buckhead district, contains an amphitheater for live music concerts. Atlanta's largest park, Shirley Clarke Franklin Park, was constructed on the site of a former gravel quarry and is connected by the Beltline. Before it was built, the Southside Park was the largest park in Atlanta. Also, Perkerson Park in Southwest Atlanta is home to the city's only permanent Disc Golf course.^[3] 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. It was designated as Atlanta's Public Art Park by the Atlanta City Council in 2007.^[4]

Several nature preserves line the south fork of Peachtree Creek in the Morningside neighborhood, including the Morningside Nature Preserve, while part of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area lies in the city's northwest corner.^[3]

The Atlanta Botanical Garden is home to the Canopy Walk, a 600-foot elevated walkway ambling 40 feet from the ground through a 15-acre forest of mature hardwoods, and the only canopy-level pathway of its kind in the United States.^[5]