Greensboro Parks and Recreation Annual Report 2021-2022

Moments That Made Our Year

The Place to Be It’s a thrill-seeker’s paradise. A place to be enveloped by nature. A memory-making space. It’s the exciting frst phase of a long-standing public-private partnership to beneft tourists and city residents alike: the Battleground Parks District, a joint efort to promote the recreation, historical, and museum sites surrounding Country Park. The $4 million project redeveloped Country Park property adjacent to the Greensboro Science Center with FLYWAY, a 700-foot zip line that sends riders sailing over the park’s Sloan Lake, and a meandering “canopy walk,” a 30-foot tall boardwalk through a grove of

towering maple, oak, birch, and beech trees. Other new features include a relocated dog park, new public restrooms, a 100-person picnic shelter, food truck hookups, and landscaping to reduce erosion and improve the water quality. With another six tennis courts being installed at the nearby Spencer Love Tennis Center and July’s $20 million bond referendum to further improve the Science Center, the Battleground Parks District is quickly becoming the place to be.

FLYWAY ZIP LINE Country Park

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