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| Nearby Parks | November 30, 2009 @ 11:57am | Beech Valley Park
1281 Beech Valley Rd. is a large triangular park with beautiful trees and shaded play area.
Herbert Taylor Park and Daniel Johnson Nature Preserve
Borders Beech Valley and Johnson Roads. The families of the namesakes donated these two large natural parks to the city. There are paths in this natural woodland floodplain park. A beautiful rock formation is located in the streambed.
Hickory Grove Park
1695 Homestead Ave. This is one of our many passive parks in the neighborhood. 300 daffodils were planted years ago. Now they matured into springtime spectacular.
Homestead Park
1755 Homestead Ave. A wooded open space.
Lenox Wildwood Park
1760/1746 Lenox Rd. This park is a continuation of Sunken Garden Park and the Morningside Nature trail. This park is the natural valley of the surrounding residential properties. A stream meanders through this park. Two tennis courts and picnic area are in this park.
Morningside Nature Trail, also known as Sussex Park
Located behind Sunken Garden Park and connects into Lenox/Wildwood Park. The Boy scouts have identified trees with markers and provide a bird watching map located at the entrance of the trail.
Noble Park
1710 Noble Dr. Neighbors recently funded the new play equipment. An open play area is next to the playground. The large Black Gum tree in the park is the recipient of the Park Pride, Big tree award in 2001. It is over 8 feet in circumference, 73 feet tall and has a 80-foot spread. So far it is uncontested.
Sidney Marcus Park
786 Cumberland Rd. This is one of our largest parks. It is a byproduct of the I-485 road days that threatened to destroy the neighborhood in the 1970s. It is named after our late state senators who helped fight a freeway that threatened the neighborhood.
Smith Park
1571 Piedmont Ave. This park was donated and named after one of the developers of Morningside. Located in the center of the park is a small water pond and fountain, complete with fish and aquatic plants. Near the center of the park is a small plaque mounted to a rock, reading: James Robert Smith 1867-1926. Morningside Civic League Dedicates This Fountain July 22, 1932.
Sunken Garden Park
1000 East Rock Springs Rd. This Park was cleared by the 1920's Lenox Park developers for a formal rose garden to promote country living outside the city. The residents that lived near the Park would send their gardeners down to Sunken Garden to tend the rose garden. Today this park has new play equipment that was sponsored by the surrounding neighbors. Over the years trees have been added to shade the playground in the hot summers. An open play area is in the front of the park.
Wildwood Gardens
735 Wildwood Rd. This park was transformed from a Kudzu jungle to a natural nature trail and garden area at the front of the park.
WildWood Urban Nature Preserve.
This is our newest park addition. Bounded by Cheshire Bridge, Wellbourne Dr., Wildwood Rd., and Lenox Road. This park was saved by the neighborhood.
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