Highland Road Community Park, Urban park in Baton Rouge, United States.
Highland Road Community Park is a 144.4-acre public park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, owned and operated by BREC. Its grounds hold youth baseball and tee ball fields, tennis courts with a tennis academy, a disc golf course on the rolling hills section, and a boat launch giving paddling access to Bayou Fountain and Bayou Manchac. A recreation center with an indoor gymnasium, event rooms, a splash pad and a pavilion stands beside rugby and soccer fields, and the Highland Road Park Observatory sits on the south side.
Highland Road Community Park is owned and operated by BREC, the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge. The park serves as the home course for the LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers cross country teams, and LHSAA cross country races are held there. The Highland Park Tennis Association, formed in 1976, has long run its Saturday round robin at the park's courts.
The Highland Park Tennis Association, formed in 1976, holds round-robin doubles events every Saturday morning that draw about 75 players of all levels. The park also hosts LHSAA cross country races and serves as the home course for LSU's cross country teams.
The recreation center area holds the indoor gymnasium, event rooms, splash pad and pavilion, with the rugby and soccer fields just north of it. The boat launch gives paddling access to Bayou Fountain and Bayou Manchac. The observatory stands on the south side of the park, and the disc golf course lies on the rolling hills section.
The park's observatory lets visitors look at stars and planets through telescopes in partnership with LSU's Department of Physics and Astronomy. This feature makes the site an uncommon place for stargazing within the city.
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