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Parks
Over 6,000 acres of public parks featuring public golf courses, lakes, swimming pools, picnic facilities, playgrounds, nearly 80 miles of scenic hiking and biking trails, an observatory, recreation centers, and a tennis complex offering year round play.
(402) 441-7847
Parks and Recreation Site: parks.lincoln.ne.gov
- Antelope Park & Sunken Gardens
23rd and N to 33rd and Sheridan Blvd.Take time to smell the roses!
Antelope Park is a particularly beautiful park offering extensive facilities, including Rose Gardens, Sunken Gardens, fountains, statues, Lincoln Children's Zoo, a recreation center, a play center, a golf course, trails system, tennis courts, swimming pool and several playground areas and is accessible for all children. This park appears to be several parks as it is bisected by many streets.Sunken Gardens, at South 27th Street and Capitol Parkway, is a beautiful terraced garden featuring thousands of annuals, reflecting ponds, waterfall, paved pathways with donated engraved concrete pavers that memorialize special people and events, restrooms and an ornate gazebo. The gardens are ADA accessible.
Ager Play Center
Large indoor play structure designed for kids at least three years old and under four feet tall (for safety reasons the height restriction is firm.) Playground equipment, indoor track complete with kiddie vehicles and snack area provide a fun environment. Separate toddler area for children who aren't quite three year's old.Hours: Sessions change seasonally. Call for current times.
Cost: Minimal charge for everyone over 1 year old, including adults.1300 S. 27th Street
(402) 441-6788Antelope Park Playground at Memorial Drive off A Street in Antelope Park is accessible for all children.
- Hazel Abel Park
This quaint, Renaissance-style park includes a gazebo, fountain, play area and benches all surrounded by an ornate cast iron fence. It is tucked away in Lincoln's historic Near South neighborhood.
Hours: Sunrise to midnight
18th & E Streets
- Holmes Park & Lake
The man-made lake is the center feature of Holmes Park and is a Lincoln favorite for non-motorized boating, picnicking and fishing. The park also offers ball diamonds, playground, golf course and Hyde Memorial Observatory. In winter, part of the lake is cleared of snow for ice skating and sledders fill the hills.
70th & Normal Blvd.
- Nebraska Statewide Arboretums
The Nebraska Statewide Arboretum is a remarkable network of arboretum sites, parks, historic properties and other public landscapes working together to enrich lives through the beauty and wonder of plants. The statewide network includes over 90 affiliate sites, 15 of which are in the Lincoln area.
For information about NSA or for a guide to NSA sites in Lincoln, call 472-2971 or visit arboretum.unl.edu.
Alice Abel Arboretum
Nebraska Wesleyan University
5000 St. Paul Avenue
(402) 465-7530Downtown Lincoln Arboretum
66 square blocks downtown
(402) 441-0020Governor's Mansion
1425 H Street
(402) 471-3466Lincoln Children's Zoo
1222 S. 27th Street
(402) 475-6741Lincoln Regional Center Arboretum
Van Dorn and Folsom streets
(402) 471-4444 - By appointmentLower Platte South NRD
3125 Portia Street
(402) 476-2729Mayor's Water Conservation Task Force Garden
2021 N. 27th Street
(402) 441-5930Nebraska State Capitol
1445 K Street
(402) 471-0491Pioneers Park Nature Center
3201 S. Coddington
(402) 441-8708Sunken Gardens
SW corner of 27th and Capitol Pkwy.
(402) 441-7847Taylor Park
66th Street and Taylor Park Drive
(402) 489-3006Joshua C. Turner Arboretum
Union College
3800 S. 48th Street
(402) 486-2536University of Nebraska Lincoln
Botanical Garden and Arboretum
12 garden areas on both City and East campuses.
(402) 472-2679Wyuka Cemetary
3600 O Street
(402) 474-3600 - Pioneers Park & Nature Center
The 1,100-acre park includes splendid examples of public art, an outdoor amphitheater, picnic areas, hiker/biker trails, ponds, a sled run and a golf course. Gifted to the city in 1928 by Mr. and Mrs. John F. Harris, it was designed by Lincoln's Ernst Herminghaus and was placed on the National Register of outstanding landscape architecture in 1993. The two entrances to the park are graced by life-size statues of a bison and an elk. The "Smoke Signal," a 14-foot likeness of Chief Red Cloud, was erected in 1935, and stands proudly on a geologically interesting outcrop of Dakota sandstone. During the dedication ceremony, chiefs and members of the Omaha, Winnebago, Sioux and Ponca Indian tribes sat on horseback facing the setting sun. The "Columns," a favorite spot for weddings, are remnants from the 1907 remodeling of the Federal Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. Pinewood Bowl, a natural outdoor amphitheater, is the site of a summer musical and other community events. The park can be reached using the Bison Trail, part of the 99-mile hiker/biker city trail system.Park Hours: Open daily until sunset.
Pioneers Park Nature Center
At the southwest corner of Pioneers Park stands a 668-acre Nature Center. It features eight miles of walking trails that meander along ponds, through tallgrass prairie, woodlands and wetlands, and across a stream. A herd of bison, elk and deer, wild turkey, hawks and owls are exhibited in their natural Nebraska habitat along the Nature Center trails. Herb, bird and butterfly gardens bloom. Two interpretive buildings contain small animal and hands-on exhibits dedicated to the plants and animals of Nebraska. A variety of public programs for all ages are offered in every season. Admission is free.
Nature Center Hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday
noon-5 p.m. Sunday
Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.3201 S. Coddington
(402) 441-7895Web Links:
City of Lincoln -Parks & Recreation Department
Pioneers Park Nature Center - Spring Creek Prairie
Take in the vast beauty, and experience the sights, sounds and scents of this 800-acre tallgrass prairie education center and visit the new straw-bale education building. Only 20 minutes southwest of Lincoln, the center offers miles of walking trails that wind through prairie, wetlands and woodlands. Wagon trail ruts are visible from the Nebraska City-Fort Kearny cutoff, for which the site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday; 1-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, or by appointment.
Weekend hours seasonal. Closed holidays.Cost: Admission fee
11700 SW 100 Street, Denton
(402) 797-2301
www.springcreekprairie.orgDirections: From I-80 take Exit 397 (Highway 77) south about 6 miles to W. Denton Road (stoplight). Turn west and go 7 miles. At the four-way stop in Denton, continue straight (west) for 1/2 mile to SW 98th Street. Turn south and proceed 3 miles. After the curves, you will see the mailbox and driveway on the left.
- Trails
Lincoln’s extensive trail system has been recognized as some of the best in the nation. More than 126 miles of trails are available for walking, hiking, running, biking and rollerblading. Most are paved.
The Lower Platte South Natural Resources District has a limestone trail along Salt Creek, from Calvert Street to Rosa Parks Way. The NRD also maintains MoPac East, east of 84th Street.
Pioneers Park and the trails around the Nature Center attract naturalists. Trails throughout the seven-mile-long Wilderness Park also are popular for viewing birds, deer and other wildlife.
For more information on local trails, go to http://www.gptn.org. - Veterans Memorial Garden
Located east of Auld Recreation Center at 1650 Memorial Drive, the Garden has more than 21 memorials and over 3,000 "Bricks of Remembrance" honoring veterans of foreign wars. Memorials include World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Pearl Harbor, Airborne, Air Force, Coast Guard, Disabled Veterans, Ex-Prisoners of War, K-9 Corps, China-Burma-India, Medical, Purple Heart, Military Women, Special Forces, Merchant Marines, Seabees, Naval Armed Guard and Tuskegee Airmen/Buffalo Soldiers.
- Wilderness Park
Lose yourself in nature. Lincoln's largest park covers more than 1,475 acres and features over 22 miles of bridle, hiking and biking trails.
The trails begin in southwest Lincoln at South 1st and Park Blvd. with additional parking areas at South 27th and Saltillo Road, South 14th and Rokeby Road and approximately South First Street and Pioneers Blvd, Old Cheney Road and Calvert Street.
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