LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It will truly be a one-of-a-kind park in all of Kentucky

What You Need To Know

  • Construction of Alberta O. Jones Park is underway

  • The new park honors the late civil rights advocate and Kentucky's first Black woman to pass state bar exam

  • A rand opening planned for this Fall

  • Many park features were suggested by neighborhood residents 

In what used to be a flooded-out field is becoming a park unlike any other in Louisville. The forthcoming Alberta O. Jones Park has designs and features inspired by community input.

Prominently, the playground equipment incorporates the natural world.

“Made out of all-natural material. This is real wood, designed to challenge children in a safe space but at the same time, giving them the opportunity to take some calculated risks and push themselves,” Brooke Pardue, president and CEO of the Parks Alliance of Louisville, told Spectrum News 1.

The park is bigger than you think. The first stage of the construction occupies five acres with another 15 acres of development planned.

Pardue says Louisville’s West End deserves far more green space than what it currently has and Alberta O. Jones Park will be a big step forward in closing those gaps.

“The community has led every aspect of the design of this park and they have chosen wisely because what we have here is going to be an incredible amenity,” Pardue said.

The park includes playgrounds for children of all ages, a performance space, a pollinator garden and more.

The park honors the late Louisville civil rights leader and the city’s first African American woman to pass the Kentucky Bar.

“I will say with great confidence that this will be far and away the nicest neighborhood park in the city,” Pardue said.

Pardue says not only will this park be a tremendous resource for the California Neighborhood, it will serve as a model of how successful a collaborative parks project can be. 

A ribbon cutting for the Alberta Jones Park is planned for this November.

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