Heard Park
Heard Park is a park in Clarke County, Georgia. Heard Park is situated nearby to East Athens Community Center, as well as near the library Aaron Heard Resource Center.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sanford Stadium and Akins Ford Arena.
Sanford Stadium
Stadium
Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium is the on-campus playing venue for football at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States. The 93,033-seat stadium is the ninth-largest American football stadium in the NCAA, and the 15th-largest such stadium in the world. Sanford Stadium is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Heard Park.
Akins Ford Arena
Stadium
Akins Ford Arena is an indoor arena in Athens, Georgia. It is part of The Classic Center campus and is intended as an upgrade to the Classic Center Grand Ballroom, which had been configured as a 2,000-seat arena. Akins Ford Arena is situated 1 mile west of Heard Park.
Springfield Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: LadyofShalott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery was founded in 1882 as a cemetery for African Americans in the 216th general militia district, Athens, Georgia area. Nine acres in size, it contains an estimated 3,500, mostly unmarked, graves. Springfield Cemetery is situated 3,700 feet northwest of Heard Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Athens and Five Points.
Athens
Athens is a vibrant college town of 127,000 people in the Classic Heartland region of Georgia. Athens is most popular in the late summer and fall when students, families of students or college football fans visit the University of Georgia.
Five Points
Neighborhood
Five Points is a retail corridor and neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of Milledge Avenue and Lumpkin Street. It occupies the South-Southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus. Five Points is situated 2½ miles southwest of Heard Park.
Normaltown
Neighborhood
Normaltown is a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, by the Athens Regional Medical Center and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge hydroelectric plant in 1896. Normaltown is situated 2½ miles west of Heard Park.
Heard Park
- Type: Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.96001° or 33° 57′ 36″ northLongitude
-83.35604° or 83° 21′ 22″ westOpen location code
865RXJ6V+2HOpenStreetMap ID
way 836189205OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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