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Columbus, Ohio has numerous municipal parks, several regional parks (part of the Metro Parks system), and privately-owned parks. The Columbus Recreation and Parks Department operates 370 parks, with a combined 13,500 acres (5,500 ha). [1]
In 1904, the city formed an 18-member park commission and maintained playgrounds in four city parks. [6] The City Recreation Department was founded on July 15, 1910, and opened up five recreation centers in the following two years. [3] [7] In 1920, the first municipal golf course was established and a day camp in 1927. [6]
Goodale Park is a public park in the Victorian Village area of Columbus, Ohio.It was donated to the city in 1851 by Lincoln Goodale.For a few months during the Civil War, it was a staging area for Union troops known as Camp Jackson. [3]
The free public park is operated by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department. The Park of Roses was established in 1952, following ideas for a city hall rose garden in 1946. The park was landscaped and planted in 1952 and 1953, opening in June 1953. The American Rose Society held its headquarters at the park beginning in 1952.
Topiary Park is a 9.2-acre (3.7 ha) public park and garden in Columbus, Ohio's Discovery District.The park's topiary garden, officially the Topiary Garden at Old Deaf School Park, is designed to depict figures from Georges Seurat's 1884 painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
Quarry Trails Metro Park is a 220-acre (89 ha) metropolitan park in Columbus, Ohio, owned and operated by Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks.The park opened on November 30, 2021, as Central Ohio's 20th metro park.
The park's pond, Huntington Gardens, and Schiller statue. During the nineteenth century, the land was originally owned by Francis Stewart and was known as "Stewart's Grove."
The park features the James W. Barney Pickaweekee Story Grove (moved from a nearby children's park) amid several monuments and memorials, [2] including the Columbus Firefighters Memorial (1958), Spanish–American War Memorial (1937), Their Spirits Circle the Earth (1987), and To Honor the Immigrants (1992). [3]