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Golf course set for spring opening
Plan to spend next spring on the greens as the Overton Park golf course is on track to reopen in the second quarter of 2022. Although course designers had originally […]
NatureZen: The Coolest Thing You’ll Read All Day
words and photos by Melissa McMasters It’s August, and the days of balmy three-hour birding walks in the Old Forest are a few months away. Instead, it’s the season of […]
Stories: Zack Meaders Guess
Zack Meaders Guess shares his memories of Overton Park, a place his son Noah Guess cares for as the owner of Echo Systems Inc., the park’s landscaping team. You can […]
NatureZen: The Dragonfly Olympics
words and photos by Melissa McMasters A few weeks ago, I participated in a global community-science project called the Odolympics, named for Odonata, the taxonomic order containing dragonflies and damselflies. Like the […]
In memory of George E. Cates
This week our hearts are heavy with the loss of one of Overton Park Conservancy’s visionary founders, George E. Cates. Anyone who remembers the Overton Park of ten years ago will […]
Stories: Bill Colton
Park supporter Bill Colton generously shares his memories of Overton Park with us today. If you’d like to share your Overton Park story, click here. When I was 10 (insert […]
NatureZen: Happy Bee Day to You
Words and photos by Melissa McMasters Today is World Bee Day, an international effort to convey the importance of bees to our food systems and to the diversity of life […]
NatureZen: The Elusive Indigo Bunting
Today’s guest post is by Steve Adelman, a writer who is an up-and-coming outdoorsman after living the majority of his life in major cities. He can be found most Sunday […]
Restrooms and rentals update
Park Restrooms The restrooms at the East Parkway Pavilion are set to reopen this Saturday, May 1. The Rainbow Lake Pavilion plumbing suffered a good deal of damage during its […]
Time to stay off the golf course!
Those big piles of dirt are about to look a whole lot greener! This week marks the beginning of “sprigging” the renovated Overton Park golf course. Both fairways and greens […]