This quaint community is next door to the city limits of Omaha and the Omaha airport. Several parks…read moreopen to the public is available. If you want to have a good view of the lake, barbeque, have kids play basketball, use the skateboard park, or BMX bike course, visit Mabrey Park located on the corner 9f Willow Drive and 18th Street. They close by 10 pm and allow watercraft to be lowered by the ramps into the lake. Outdoor picnic seating is also available around the park area. No swimming is allowed at this park. You will have to visit Wavecrest Park for that.

Carter Lake is a former channel of the Missouri River and was formed by flooding of the Missouri…read moreRiver in the summer of 1877. The city of Carter Lake, Iowa takes its name from the lake and there is an interesting background story to this lake located near the Omaha Airport. In 1930, Carter Lake was incorporated as a city in the state of Iowa, a status it has retained ever since but there has been lots of fighting over it. Carter Lakes Colorful History states that "Carter Lake was once called Cut-Off Island - a fitting name for a place torn between two cities and two states, yet connected to neither." Iowa and Nebraska constantly battled for the city named Carter Lake and it's water feature born of a change of course of the Missouri River. The ensuing legal battle over whether Iowa or Nebraska had jurisdiction over Cut-Off Island went to the Supreme Court. In a 1892 ruling, the court sided with Iowa on the basis that state lines remain the same when a river avulsed, or dramatically altered, its path in 1877. Therefore, the land had never left Iowa, despite its position on the Nebraska side of the river. It is weird driving through the area, as you are in Nebraska one minute and Iowa the very next. Carter Lake has not escaped water pollution problems and in 2005, the lake had reached a crisis level. Due to a number of factors, the lake water level was both dangerously low and polluted with toxic algae. Placed on Nebraska's Section 303(d) List of Impaired Waters for elevated concentrations of nutrients, the lake was no longer a place for recreation and beauty, but a haven for floating contaminants. Interested citizens formed the "Carter Lake Environmental Assessment and Rehabilitation Council," and a community based watershed plan was organized to help improve the water quality. Now Carter Lake is a recreational hub for the area. The park is a great place to launch a boat for water sports and fishing, and also has baseball and football fields, basketball courts, and areas for picnics and larger gatherings. It is a beautiful gem of a lake and worth 5 YELP STARS.

This is a nice baseball park for Bellevue University. Decent seating but a lot of the bleacher…read moreseats are cracked. The field is great. They have a small pair of batting cages and bull pens for each side. Parking is somewhat decent for a smallish crowd. Trees are overgrown surrounding the parameter of the ballpark so losing numerous balls is easy.

As my husband mentioned in his review earlier the ball field is very nice but the bleachers are…read moreworn (my guess is due to constant access to weather elements). The area is surrounded by trees so there's not much open area to walk around. There are 2 batting cages on each side and a bull pen for each team. The seating is small and there's only 2 bathroom stalls for the women. I'm not sure about the men's stalls. They do have a war memorial upon entering the ballpark in memory of the fallen soldiers who've played ball in the local area.

One of Omaha's signature parks. Nice playground for kids…read more Lots of picnic tables and grills. A pavilion. Quaint if slightly sketchy grotto. A baseball field. Lots of mature trees and a walking path. Even a pool and a golf course! This is a great space for public events, such as an Earth Day celebration I recently attended. It is by UNO campus and that can impact traffic and parking sometimes. Still, a really nice green space here in the city.

My review of the this park may be a little weird because I'm not reviewing it as a public park…read morereally, I'm reviewing it as a wedding venue. But also the beauty of the park itself will be discussed many times - don't worry. We wanted a short (but still beautiful) outdoor wedding in October, and realized that the City of Omaha actually rents out parks for events. And the gorgeous Elmwood Park Grotto was the first thing I thought of! Just a note, you can't reserve a park location more than a year out (so a year to the day out from our wedding date, we called and snapped it up). We reserved the grotto, and went to look at the space to be sure it could fit our large guest list. It was exactly the right size - we decided to rent some nice chairs to put in a little semicircle design in front of the fountain, and we had the wedding take place at the front of the semicircle at the center of the fountain. The fall foliage was in full bloom and made our special day so perfect. The gorgeous greenery of the park also made the most beautiful backdrop for our formal photos once the chairs had been cleared out! The only negative thing I would note if you decide to rent the grotto, is that they don't put up any signs or anything that it's closed/rented for a private event, so I would recommend doing that yourself and placing signs at each entrance. We almost had someone walk their dog through our wedding because we didn't do this. All in all, It was perfect for our needs. A gorgeous (and very affordable!) outdoor location with a fountain to wed in front of, some pretty steps so you can still "walk down the aisle" - and a huge space to fit our 100+ guests!

Ball fields are great. The outdoor portable potty was disgusting. The toilet was almost filled to…read morethe bottom of the seat. I was so scared to sit down. Garbage containers were full so trash all over.

Man this is a terrible ballpark! The parking is terrible and most people had to park in huge mud…read morepuddles and some even got stuck. Also, you had to park a mile away because as previously stated, there is no parking! Why host tournaments if there is no place to park? There is zero shade and if you don't get hit by a foul ball then consider yourself lucky. The prices in the concession were okay but the food was not that good. The worst part is how unclean and filthy the restrooms. The men's and women's were equally bad. Although the moms on our team had to go as partners to the restroom due to lack of locks on stall doors. They are in need of something to cover and shade fans as well as some netting to protect spectators from fouls balls. Finally, they need to hire someone to maintain and clean their facilities. Our two games were early morning which means they hadn't been cleaned in a while! Just not a great park overall. The Slumpbuster is a big tournament and should use better facilities to host the tournament.

On our cross country road trip, we visited this little park while stopping in to see my brother and…read morehis family in Omaha. The park is a quiet space which includes various athletic fields (baseball, basketball, tennis) and a well-maintained fishing pond stocked with catfish, bass, bluegill, and trout in season. The park features plenty of green space, shade trees, benches and tables, and walking paths. We had a nice afternoon with the kids, catching lots of little panfish in the pond, all released. Parking is free in the large dirt lot, but more that as best we could figure, the only bathroom facility is a portapotty near the baseball diamond. Hidden gem.

This is a nice surprise in the area. I have been before but it was looking kind up unkempt - not…read morethis time. The park looked great - nice place to walk around - the field looks well kept and the lake was active with people fishing and talking walks.

We went to this stadium and had a great time! Parking is really easy. Food was fantastic and the…read moregame was great.

The atmosphere is good, but the concession prices are outrageous. When the ballpark was first…read morebuilt, it was touted to be family friendly and affordable for a family, but when you start charging $7 for a bag of Lays, affordability went out the window. They also wanted free parking, but now parking costs $5/car.