About The Parks
Located at S. Downing St. and E. Louisiana Ave., Washington Park is a fitness destination for city dwellers, featuring a recreation center with an indoor pool, bicycle/pedestrian pathway, boating, a crushed granite jogging path, fitness course, fishing, horseshoe pit, indoor pool, lawn bowling/croquet, soccer field, tennis courts, lighted tennis courts, two playgrounds, four picnic sites, a boathouse pavilion, two lakes, 1/2 basketball court, two major flower gardens, and a youth fishing pond. Washington Park is also home to the city’s largest flower garden, with more than 50 large flower beds over the 165 acre area.
