Welcome to Freedom Park

Watch a great little documentary film about houw Freedom Park came to be what it is today. The video was created by Steve Bransford and Terminus Films here in Atlanta.

Listen to a Sidewalk Radio feature on Freedom Park (aired August 18, 2011). Host Gene Kansas speaks to Dave Blackley (Freedom Park President), George Dusenbury (Atlanta Parks Commissioner), Cathy Bradshaw (Past President of CAUTION) and Patricia Kerlin about the origins and the current state of Freedom Park. Let us know what you think about it over on our Facebook Page.

Designated an Atlanta Art Park by the city of Atlanta and home to seven permanent installations of significant art created by artists of international stature.

 

Surrounded by neighborhoods that stretch from the Old Fourth Ward through much of midtown, Freedom Park is the largest public green space set aside in a major metropolitan area in the United States in the last century.

 

It's history stretches from the Civil War to Civil Rights to a turbulent period of neighborhood activism. With almost six miles long of open rolling terrain, the park provides intown residents plenty of greenspace for an urban playscape.