McNeely Lake Park

This park has a Beautiful 27 hole golf course known as Quail Chase Bordering lake Mc Neely. A well maintained facility with bent grass fairways along with well manicured greens and white sand bunkers. You must play this course. Price wise this is worth every penny. Call ahead for tee times Highly recommend Green fees include golf cart. Tee times are a must.

Tiny park located off cedar creek road. You pull into a the parking lot and the road way is gated off. So you park to the immediate left. The park itself features a small playground, a full court basketball court and lots of soccer fields. If you follow the concrete path near the parking lot towards the patio area and soccer fields you can follow that path around a short trail that eventually takes you through a gravel paved wooded area that runs along side the soccer fields. It leads back out to the road where it circles back to the blocked off road at the entrance. It's a giant circle. But it's a peaceful and easy trail. Overall solid little park and it's pretty close to my home. So I'll come up here and let the girls play on the playground. It's very rarely crowded. Most of the crowd heads to the larger McNeely Lake Park about 3 miles down the road as it has several massive playgrounds. So a lot of time when we don't want to deal with bit crowds I'll make the short trip here and let the girls run wild and blow off energy.

Second Largest metro park working on being more community inclusive like to see sidewalks connecting neighborhoods and horses come back better bike trails and more events. Huge lake fishing and nice playgrounds,

Wish I could eat the fish I catch but the lake has been destroyed by runoff coming from the golf course.

This is a great park that I've been to many times over my life and childhood growing up pretty close to it. I still take my daughters to go hiking on a little trails look at their ponds playgrounds all the good things that we enjoy doing. I would recommend it and I enjoy going

Love the walking trails to walk with my two dogs and or my husband in good weather! I will always enjoy coming to this park because it's close to my house and there's a lot for us to be able to do and feel safe while doing it!My only thing that I would love to change about it is to have a fenced in dog area in lieu of that we use the tennis courts as a place for the dogs to just run around off leash. And we always make sure we clean up after them so nobody is upset with us being in there. I'll be back like I always am I really enjoy this park and then getting to stop at the barrel on the way back home!

Located off Cooper Chapel rd. This side of Louisville sits this beautiful park with a lake. You can fish, bring the kids to the playground and walk the trail to the beautiful waterfall that sits at the end of the lake. The appearance overall of the park is good, other than some full trash cans and some muddy trails. My advice if you come here to walk the trail, don't wear your good shoes you may get some mud on them, it's not too muddy but, it does have some spots.My favorite part of the lake is the waterfall. It is quite the hike but well worth it. Minus the graffiti it is a beautiful site, I like to come here on a day like this (not too hot, not too cold) just right for some me time and feel at peace listening to the waterfall. I highly recommend this park.

I would have to say I was impressed with McNeely lake park today. I had read that they only had about a two mile hike there and I knew it was rather flat. But that is right up my husband's alley, 2 to 3 miles, not hilly and places to sit. Today he was in his glory. We parked at the playground, which was very nice, plenty of parking in various spots in the park by the way. From there we headed to the path that runs along the lake. Path goes from concrete to gravel ro dirt but all easy to traverse. We headed to the right from the playground and walked about a mile to end up at the dam. There are multiple secluded fishing spots just off the path, views of the lake, lush greenery and lots of bird wildlife. It was pretty crowded with lots of walkers fishermen and families, all friendly. The dam at the end of the trail is well kept, from there you have to turn around and head back. The lake is impressive, longer than I would have imagined with many off shoots. At the other end of the trail there is a nice swing and a boat dock. I was amazed at the number of small boats and kayaks on the water. Also near the playground is a Korean War memorial that is well kept and touching. I was very surprised at just how much I enjoyed the hike along the lake and all the amenities of the park.

If you live near or around the Hillview area, this is one of the best parks to visit. It seems to attract a lot of fishers, but it also has some great walking trails, and is easily accessible. For the most part, the park is very clean; Minus the graffiti found around the place. And sadly from the couple times I've visited within a span of a few years, that graffiti has not been removed. It is pretty much only on the big boulders though, the rest of the area you'll find to be really nice. There are parking lots all over, so you won't have any issues with that. This is a nice park to visit; It's easy to spend at least an hour here just exploring.

First things first - this park kind of has 2 locations. And this can be confusing. There is McNeely Lake Park - South, which is where the soccer fields, basketball court and playground are located. Then there is the park area which is actually down by the lake. To make things even more confusing, I'm pretty sure you can't drive from one to the other. It's about a 10 minute drive to get from the south park to the lake. The South portion looks as though it's being repaired or added on to. Or it's going to be part of the Louisville Loop. There were a few signs but nothing that gave any indication as to when these projects were going to be completed or what they even were. We walked along what may be the path and there was just a large open field that was torn up and muddy. Plus there were old light fixtures along the path. It sort of made the area look like a large dump. After walking a circular path, we ended up back at our vehicles and left to find the entrance near the lake. After about a 10 minute drive, we had found our location. If using GPS, it's better to use Quail Chase golf course as the entrance to the park is right past the golf course. Once arriving at the lake, we walked along a path that followed the shore line. There was a lot of trash left by people who had been fishing, which was disappointing because there were a plenty of trash canse. From our walk, the park seemed to be well-maintained but the park has a weird vibe to it. There is a weird cave kind of thing and a lot of feral cats. I haven't driven through the entire park though so maybe it was just the area we were in.Overall, I'm just not a fan of this park. I've been several times and I just don't feel safe - even when I'm with a group of people. I would rather drive a bit further to the Parklands (where I feel safe walking or biking alone) than frequent the trails of McNeely Lake.