Beautiful park. Wide…read moreopen spaces, exercise areas, playgrounds, trails. VERY CLEAN!!!! Picnic tables and benches scattered about. I highly recommend this park for your little ones or yourself.

A beautiful small park in downtown Lexington near Transylvania University. It's picturesque and…read moresurrounded my older homes. Parking can be tricky. We recently went to an arts and crafts festival there.

Lexington is such a pretty place. I was born & raised in Kentucky, but I've only been to Lexington…read morea handful of times. We were in Lexington for the weekend & actually stayed at Gratz Park Inn. After we checked out, we decided to leave the car parked on the street & take a walk around the area. We'd been so busy the previous day's that we hadn't explored the area much. We stumbled upon Gratz Park. The streets that border the park were closed because they were having the 2016 Mayfest Arts Fair. There was a ton of arts & crafts venders. They even had a few food trucks & some local breweries set up giving samples. We saw a local dance troupe that was doing a performance & even bringing in the people watching to join in. The park itself is is very green. Lots of grass, mature trees & bushes. There's plenty of shade for people to sit under on a blanket. The walkways in the park look on the older side, so I'd guess this park has been here for some time. It looks like what used to be a courthouse sits at one end of the park. This is a nice green space for the town.

We visited this area today to partake in the Lucky Leprechaun 5K put on by RaceRise. We only spent…read morea few minutes in their facility. Parts of it seemed a little dated, but it overall looked clean and well-kept (especially the gym and daycare). While running the 5K, the ground appeared well-kept. I did spot a rather hilarious looking concessions trailer, but it didn't seem out of place and did a good job of providing the kind of ambiance I would expect in rural Kentucky. Would run here again!

The facilities are great. I use the weight room and they have everything I need. Staff are…read morefriendly. However, there are a few continuing problems. 1. The weights in the weight room are never, ever, ever sorted into their correctly labeled spots (you can only blame other patrons up to a certain point--then you have to start asking why the staff aren't enforcing a sorting rule or sorting them themselves). 2. The wifi is spotty. 3. When equipment breaks, repairs take forever. One of the selectorized weight machines had a weight that stuck for months and months after I politely mentioned it to staff multiple times. 4. The men's bathroom by the weight room often has a very strong urine smell and the hinge on the stall door is not dependable. And handle on the sink in there has been broken for weeks. 5. The second hand on one of the wall clocks in the weight room is broken, and has been for a long time, which is frustrating if you want to time a lifting rest. (It's a small thing, but it's the kind of thing staff should handle without having to be asked by their customers. Plus, who wants to be "that guy" who asks them to fix their clock? I already asked once--now I'd rather use up my political capital asking about the wifi.) 6. Any time you have to do ANYTHING in the office, it takes forever. Reception and basic bookkeeping tasks move at a snail's pace. Again, all the staff are very nice, and overall things are not bad. However, there are some continual/recurring (and frustrating) problems that appear to be a lack of proper management.

I take my dogs to the Lakeview park dog park every single day. What I don't understand is why it…read morewas built out in the open with no shade the shade trees are just feet away yet both sides are in the direct sun, why wasn't it expanded out to at least have a little shade? In my humble opinion a dog owner did not plan the design or if they did they didn't think about the 100 degree days.

Decent park and several things to do. Could use more signs pointing to what areas things are…read morelocated. Took a while to find the skate park area, which really needs to have the graffiti checked and removed regularly. Didn't really want to spend park day explaining what phallic drawings and the F word were to my 8 year old.

First, I will mention that it is winter now so very few parks look their best with all the bare…read moretrees and muddy grass areas. I saw this park on a map and dropped by with no expectations really. It turned out to be mostly a park for baseball fields rather than open areas or walking paths. The sports areas seemed pretty good though and had bleachers and fencing etc suitable for high school type ball games. It had walking access to the Kentucky River and a few paths that were, at the time, very muddy. There was a lot of drainage pipes, construction stuff and other maintenance areas that detracted from the view. Of course the trees had to leaves but I'd expect them to be nice in the right season. The Capitol view was okay. There was a mountain biking path that seemed like it would make a good ride for those interested. Many deer in the area which was very exciting for the dog and fun for me too. My 3 star review is because it just doesn't seem to meet a nice variety of park uses enough and because of all the maintenance areas (fencing, stacked mulch etc that seems permanent) detracting from the park atmosphere. It was easy to access though from the E-W Connector and had plenty of parking. The bathrooms were closed for the season which annoys me but is common in municipal parks (of course no one needs to pee in the winter....).

My wife and I visited here last weekend so she could participate in the Bluegrass State Games…read more Sure, she won. She was the only racer in her class, but she won. That's all that counts. Upon driving into the park, it was immediately obvious that this park was designed for baseball. A huge, well-kept baseball field dominated the landscape next to the parking lot, with some very nice bleachers for an audience. Must be used for local school baseball or something. You can tell people really care about this park. Not being an avid mountain cyclist myself, I can't say a lot about the mountain bike course. It runs about 5 miles around, and is quite treacherous in a few places. There are two pits along the course known by cyclists as "Sinkholes" that are very challenging to bike through. A good portion of the early part of the course is a gruelingly slow ascent. Emily almost gave up in the middle of her third lap... Her calves were cramping bad. This says a lot, considering that she bikes 12 miles everyday through town.

Nice park! It's clean and nice-looking, with lush grass and trees surrounding an oval path that…read moreconnects to paths that extend outside of the park. There's also a playground, soccer field, and basketball courts. I walked the path in the middle of a weekday and enjoyed it. There were a few others there doing the same.

This is a small, simple park with a paved walking path around its perimeter. Probably not worth…read moredriving to unless you skateboard. The skate park portion looked awesome and had really great vibes! There's also a basketball court and playground. Parking lot had some spots that could be updated.

This is a smaller park, and at first I thought it would be a 3-star rating, but then I saw all the…read morecolorful art and cool little things, like a bike rack made from bikes and a free little library. There's also a nonprofit called The Nest on the park site. I looked up their website and they have a great mission.