Founded in 1906 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, Overton Park is a massive 342-acre public park at 1914 Poplar Avenue in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee, that contains the Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Zoo, a 9-hole golf course, Memphis College of Art, Rainbow Lake, Veterans Plaza, Greensward, a dog park, formal gardens, recreational areas for jogging, hiking, nature study, picnicking and team sports, Old Forest Arboretum and Levitt Shell Theater, where Elvis Presley gave his first paid concert on July 30, 1954. Founded in 1916, the Brooks museum is the oldest and largest art museum in Tennessee with 29 galleries, a collection of over 7,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs and examples of decorative arts, art classrooms, a print study room with over 4,500 works of art on paper, a research library with over 5,000 volumes and an auditorium. Founded in 1906, Memphis Zoo is one of the largest in the United States with 3,500 animals representing 500 species. Old Forest Arboretum is one of the few remaining old growth forests in Tennessee with over 300 plant varieties. The Picnic Pavilion, built in 1904 and the oldest surviving facility in Overton Park, is centrally located within the East Picnic Area along the eastern boundary of the park. Veterans Plaza, located south of the zoo, contains memorials to the veterans of Memphis and Shelby County who were killed defending the freedom of the United States. It is home to memorials for World War 1, World War 11, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm. The Doughboy Statue, the hallmark of this solemn area, is one of the World War 1 memorials, made in 1926 of copper from pennies collected by local school children.

Family outing to The Juicy Crab on Winchester road. Lemon Pepper Chicken over seasoned. Cajun Fries not cajun but regular. Hungry Feast price increased by $5 by mouth, menu showed $5 less. Focus on money rather than customer satisfaction. We spent a lot of money. Some of the other food was okay. This was my first & last visit. I could think of other ways to spend my money & be appreciated for it. Management wasn't willing to work with us on an ordering issue.

This past weekend when visiting my brother in law in Memphis, we stopped at Overton Park for a little hike, and it was really nice! I'd driven through a bit of the park before when we visited the Brooks Museum of Art on a past visit to Memphis, but this time we explored the Old Forest within the park! It's 142 acres with four miles of unpaved walking paths, including a the one-mile Old Forest Loop trail. On a nice day, it's pretty beautiful! A great oasis in the middle of the city! Definitely worth visiting.

Overton Park is a beautiful park in Memphis midtown. Old forest trail in the park offers several running paths with splendid forest views. Levitt Shell is an open-air amphitheater in the western side of the park at which you can enjoy plenty of free music concerts almost four night a week during Summer and Fall. Brooks museum in the western side of the park is a small good quality art museum with a neat coffee shop inside. The park is very close to Overton Square where you can find great restaurants and entertainment options in a lively environment as well. If you come to Memphis and would like to spend a few hours to relax in a park, enjoy the music, or run in the woods right in the heart of midtown, give Overton Park a shot and you will be satisfied.

We drove through the park, then walked one of the trails. Loved the sculptures. very peaceful and well kept.