Greensboro Plan2Play Parks and Recreation Master Plan 2019

42 - FEBRUARY 2019

Multi-faceted System Today, the Department operates a diverse system of trails, parks, programs, and recreational centers. Overall, Greensboro’s parks and open spaces total 2,937 acres. The city’s 134 parks range in size and function for the city, from Claudette Burroughs-White Pocket Park at just over a tenth of an acre to Bryan Park, the largest park in the system at 798 acres. The Department maintains 98 miles of greenway trails (excluding private trails). Thirty fives of those miles are paved greenways with surfaces that support wheelchairs, bikes, strollers, and pedestrians. Over time, the Department has taken on ownership of many stream buffers, totaling 2,411 acres. These buffers are not activated as park space today; hence, they are not included in the needs analysis below. Still, they offer significant acreage along ecological corridors for potential future expansion of the system. The Department has committed to creating parks that are proximate to all community members. As a result, 110 of Greensboro’s 134 parks are neighborhood-serving parks. In addition, the Department maintains

Figure 23. Eighty percent of Greensboro’s 134 parks are neighborhood-serving parks.

five large parks greater than 20 acres, two large outdoor sports venues (Carolyn Allen and Bryan Park), two large indoor sport venues (Simkins Indoor Sports Pavilion and Greensboro Sportsplex), four community gardens (Keeley Park, Steelman Park, Maywood Park, and Village at Northside) and fourteen community centers. These centers include multiple recreation centers and specialty facilities like the Smith Senior Center, the Greensboro Cultural Center and the Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center. The recreation centers are: Brown Center, Craft Center, Glenwood Center, Griffin Center, Leonard Center, Lewis Center, Lindley Center, Peeler Center, Trotter Center, Warnersville Center, and Windsor Center.

Within city limits, other partners also provide open space amenities to the community. The National Park Service owns Guilford Courthouse National Military Park which offers 5.75 miles of trails and 216 additional acres of regional, special use space that is integrated within the Battleground Park District. The County owns the 2-acre Sternberger Park, the well-loved 250-acre Bur-Mil Park, and 16.52 miles of the Bicentennial Greenway. The Department has an agreement with the Guilford County School District to jointly share use of 8 school facilities in order to make more recreation opportunities available to the community.