Freedom Park & Charlotte Nature Museum

Amenities: Handicap Accessibility, Restrooms, Information Available, Biking, Fishing, Picnic Facilities

Unique Features: This 98-acre urban park near downtown Charlotte is teeming with ball fields, playgrounds, and humanity, but the observant visitor can also view a diversity of wildlife.  Those seeking contact with nature should look along the restored Little Sugar Creek for Gulf Coast spiny softshell turtles, great blue heron, and northern water snakes. The 7-acre lake offers fishing year-round and opportunities to view other aquatic turtles and waterfowl. The Charlotte Nature Museum located across the creek from the park is an urban nature center that exhibits plants and animals of the Piedmont including an ever-changing indoor butterfly garden. This site is located along Little Sugar Creek Greenway.

Habitats:  Floodplain Forest

Directions: From Interstate 77, Exit 6A. Bear right onto Woodlawn Road and travel east for two miles. Turn left onto Park Road.  Travel north for one mile and turn right onto Princeton Avenue.  Continue for 0.5 mile and turn left onto Sterling Road.  The Charlotte Nature Museum entrance will be on the left.

Hours:  Charlotte Nature Museum, Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Sunday 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
                Freedom Park, Open daily 7:00 a.m. - Sunset

Contact information:

Freedom Park
1900 East Boulevard
Charlotte, NC 28209
704-336-3854
www.parkandrec.com		 Charlotte Nature Museum
1658 Sterling Road
Charlotte, NC 28209704-372-6261 ext. 605
www.discoveryplace.org