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Piedmont Park

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Piedmont Park is an urban forest and recreation park in Atlanta, Georgia, between Midtown and Virginia Highland, about 1.6 km northeast of downtown.

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What's on here

Weekly Walking Club Weekly Walking Club Tuesday, 10:00 Green Market Green Market Saturday, 09:00 44 Live Jazz Festival 44 Live Jazz Festival Saturday, 15:00 Community Game Night Community Game Night Monday, 18:30 Weekly Walking Club Weekly Walking Club Tuesday, 10:00 Community Craft Night Community Craft Night Tuesday, 18:30 Cider Making Workshop Cider Making Workshop Thursday, 18:00 Block Printing: Tea Towels Block Printing: Tea Towels Friday, 18:00 Show more

Why go

  • Isamu Noguchi’s 1976 Playscape is his only public work in the United States.
  • Annual festivals include Atlanta Pride, Atlanta Jazz and Atlanta Dogwood.
  • The northern expansion added an interactive fountain, restored meadows and a daylighted stretch of Clear Creek.
  • Free Shake on the Lake performances use Lake Clara Meer as their backdrop.
  • Atlanta’s first Vietnam War veterans memorial, unveiled in 2026, honors 240 people from Atlanta and Fulton County.

Opening hours

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Monday08:30 – 17:30
Tuesday08:30 – 17:30
Wednesday08:30 – 17:30
Thursday08:30 – 17:30
Friday08:30 – 17:30
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed

Entrances

  • 12th Street entranceEnter at 12th Street. Skate Escape, across the street, rents bikes and skates.12th Street

Don't miss

  • Lake Clara MeerFishing is permitted on this spring-fed lake in the park’s southeast. Enlarged to about 11.5 acres in 1895, it gained a connecting bridge and three fishing piers in 2002.Southeast part of the park
  • Sharon E. Lester Tennis CenterThe center has 12 lighted hard courts and offers leagues and lessons.
  • Active OvalIts grounds include softball and soccer fields, beach volleyball courts and a dirt running path.
  • Paved pathsSeveral miles of paved paths accommodate walking, running, cycling and inline skating.Across the park

With kids

  • Mayor’s Grove offers accessible, interactive play.
  • The Noguchi Playscape near the 12th Street Gate has swings, a slide, a sand pit and a climbing dome.
  • Children’s learning options include EnviroVentures Camp, homeschool days and field trips.

Facilities

  • Grills The park has 22 grills, plus picnic tables, benches and lawns for picnics.
  • Dog parks Fenced dog parks cover three acres and are designated for small and large dogs. Dogs generally must be leashed outside them, with exceptions at special events.
  • Pool The park has a pool.

Photo spots

  • Clara Meer DockAt the lake’s west corner, the dock sits below the historic Visitor Center.West corner of Lake Clara Meer
  • Exposition stoneworkStone balustrades around the park once supported steps to a major exposition building.

Shorts

History

Joseph Forsyth Johnson designed the park for its first exposition. The 1895 fair brought together 6,000 exhibits and 800,000 visitors over 100 days and hosted the first public demonstration of the Phantoscope.

  1. 1821The Muscogee people had lived, worked and cared for this land before being forced to relinquish it in 1821.
  2. 1834Samuel and Sarah Walker bought the land and cleared it for a farm.
  3. 1887Benjamin Walker sold the land to the Gentlemen’s Driving Club for a club and horse-racing grounds. The Piedmont Exposition opened on October 10, attracting 20,000 visitors that day.
  4. 1895The Cotton States and International Exposition ran from September 18 to December 31. Booker T. Washington delivered his Atlanta Exposition Speech there.
  5. 1904Atlanta bought the park and extended its city limits to include it.
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  1. 1909The city hired Olmsted Brothers to plan the transformation of the former fairgrounds into a park.
  2. 1910The park’s first permanent building, a rest house, was built. It became the Visitors’ Center after restoration in 1996.
  3. 1989The Piedmont Park Conservancy formed to restore and preserve the park.
  4. 2009The stone bathhouse, built in 1926 to replace a wooden bathhouse from 1911, reopened after restoration as the Greystone events venue; the renovated Aquatic Center also reopened that year.
  5. 2011The first phase of a 53-acre expansion opened, including The Greensward, The Promenade, Lower Meadow and Six Springs Wetlands.

Sources: Piedmont Park - Wikipedia · Atlanta/Midtown - Wikivoyage (do) · Piedmont Park · About Us - Piedmont Park Conservancy, Inc. · Learn The History of Piedmont Park in Atlanta · Parc Piedmont - Wikipedia · checked 10 Oct 2026

Where
1322 Monroe Drive, GA, Atlanta

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Questions and answers

What are Piedmont Park’s opening hours?

Monday–Friday 08:30–17:30; Saturday–Sunday 06:00–23:00.

Can I bring a picnic to Piedmont Park?

Yes. Picnic tables, benches, lawns and 22 grills are available.

Is there bicycle and skate rental near Piedmont Park?

Skate Escape rents bikes and skates across from the 12th Street entrance.

Can I drive through Piedmont Park?

No. The park has been closed to through traffic since 1983. Its paths are open to pedestrians, skateboarders, cyclists and rollerbladers.

What occupied Piedmont Park’s Active Oval before the park?

Samuel and Sarah Walker cleared farmland here; a later horse racetrack was shaped into today’s ball fields.

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