Metro Parks offers 22 stocked fishing lakes, covering about 114 acres in 11 local parks. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife stocks Metro Parks lakes. For information on Kentucky’s water recreation laws, please call 1.800.858.1549.

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Metro Parks Fishing Lakes

Cherokee Park
Grinstead Drive and Lexington Road
4.6 acre lake with accessible pier

Chickasaw Park
Southwestern Parkway and Greenwood Avenue
1.6 acre lake - catch and release only

Fisherman’s Park
Old Heady Road near Hopewell Road
8 lakes, 15.2 acres total

Iroquois Park
New Cut Road and Kenwood Drive
1.1 acre lake

Jefferson Memorial Forest
Tom Wallace Lake, off Mitchell Hill Road
5.4 acre lake with accessible pier

Long Run Park
Flat Rock Road off Shelbyville Road
28.7 acre lake with boat ramp

McNeely Lake Park
Cooper Chapel Road off Preston Highway
46.2 acre lake with accessible pier and boat ramp

William F. Miles Park
Shelbyville Road and Miles Park Way
4 lakes, 5.5 acres total

Thurman Hutchins Park
River Road and Indian Hills Trail
Accessible pier

Charlie Vettiner Park
Mary Dell Lane near Billtown Road
1.2 acre lake

Watterson Park
South Wheatfield Drive and March Boulevard
4.1 acre lake with accessible pier

Waverly Park
Arnoldtown Road and Clayton Terrace
5.3 acre lake

River Frontage

Eva Bandman Park
River Road and Barbour Avenue

Chickasaw Park
Southwestern Parkway and Greenwood Avenue

Carrie Gaulbert Cox Park
River Road and Indian Hills Trail
Accessible pier, boat ramp

Hays Kennedy Park
Bass Road off River Road
Access to river through Garvin Brown Preserve

Kulmer Reserve Park
South Dixie Highway near Katherine Station Road

Otter Creek Park
850 Otter Creek Park Road
Brandenburg, KY
Fishing in both creek and river - trout stamp may be required; boat landing

Riverview Park
Greenwood and Lower River Roads
Boat ramp

Shawnee Park
Broadway and Southwestern Parkway

Fishing Lake Rules
Charlie Vettiner, Cherokee, Watterson and McNeely Lake parks are stocked with grass carp. Carp are vital to lake ecology and must be returned after being caught.

• Please obey posted fishing hours.
• Electric motors are permitted. Gasoline motors are allowed in the Ohio River, but not on lakes.
• Fishing licenses are required for persons 16 or older.
• No trotlines are permitted.
• No fishing from dams or spillways.
• Please be good stewards of these fishing lakes and their surroundings. Clean up debris such as aluminum cans and waste from cleaning fish.

Fishing licenses may be purchased at many local retail outlets, bait and tackle shops, and department stores selling fishing equipment.