Louisville’s Metro Parks system includes more than 60 outdoor picnic shelters that are available for family picnics, employee appreciation days, weddings, field trips and more. You may reserve any picnic shelter to ensure that it’s available for your exclusive use. If a reservation notice isn’t posted in a shelter, it is available at no charge on a first come, first served basis.
For shelter and lodge reservations, contact our Special Events Office, open weekdays in the Iroquois Amphitheater from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Submit your request online! Click here and fill out an easy form
Phone: 502/368-5865
Mail: Special Events Office, Metro Parks, 1080 Amphitheater Rd., 40215
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FIRST TIER: $150
Cherokee (Baringer Hill) Sheppard
Cherokee (Big Rock) Sun Valley
Cherokee (Hogan’s Fountain) Thurman Hutchins
Chickasaw (front shelter) Charlie Vettiner (near softball field)
Hounz Lane Willow
Iroquois (Sunnyhill) Wyandotte
Shawnee (pictured above)
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SECOND TIER: $125
Camp Taylor McNeely Lake (near lake)
Joe Creason McNeely Lake (near memorial)
Des Pres McNeely Lake South
Hays Kennedy Russell Lee
Charlie Vettiner (near tennis) Shelby
McNeely Lake (near tennis)
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THIRD TIER: $90
Jefferson Memorial Forest (large shelter in Paul Yost)
Highview Long Run (remote)
Lannan Riverside Gardens
Long Run (near boat dock) Tyler
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FOURTH TIER: $35
Algonquin Klondike
Auburndale Kulmer Reserve
Baxter Square G. G. Moore
Berrytown Norfolk Acres
Black Mudd Okolona
Blue Lick Parkhill
Bradley Petersburg
Buechel Portland
California Huston Quin
Elliott Square Rubel
Fairdale Mini-Park South Central
Fern Creek Ben Washer
William Harrison Watterson Lake
Jefferson Memorial Forest (Tom Wallace)
Jefferson Memorial Forest (small shelters in Paul Yost)
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