PARKS
With over 80 parks within the County, enjoyment of the outdoors is easily obtained
anywhere your adventure might lead.
Aaron Moss Park
Located on Park Drive, includes athletic fields, tennis courts, and a picnic area.
Altitude Trampoline Park
Channel your energy, cut loose with your best flips and tricks, and prepare for the Jump Life℠ Featuring 30,000 square feet of indoor trampolines and other attractions, Altitude Trampoline Park is an exciting destination for families, groups, and individual jumpers to have healthy, athletic fun.
Andy Hovis Community Skate Park
Located on East First Street, provides a secure, smooth surface for skating and skateboarding with various ramps and rails for users of the park.
Belmont Skate Park
This skateboarding park has a bowl, rail slides, ramps, beginner's area and covered area for shade.
Ben Black Park
This park offers tennis, a basketball, a children's playground and a picnic area.
Bessemer City Park and Pool
Take a dip in the pool at Bessemer City Park or just splash around in the water park. Stay cool under a wooded tree canopy on a trail built for hiking or mountain biking. Shoot hoops or act like a kid on the playground. This park is loads of fun.
Central Park
Central Park boasts a mile of natural surface mountain biking trails, walking trails and a natural stream running the length of the park. Other amenities will include restrooms, a picnic shelter with 10 tables and an active open field.
Crowders Mountain State Park
A visit to Crowders Mountain might include hiking more than 20 miles of hiking trails, rock climbing, backcountry camping, picnicking and fishing.
Dallas Park
This 100-acre park provides a broad assortment of facilities A heritage village showcases local farm life in the 1890s.
Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden
Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden is the Carolinas’ Garden for all seasons, providing guests a chance to reconnect with nature and to create lifelong memories with friends and family and is located within 380 acres on the banks of Lake Wylie.
Davis Park
Wooded area with a playground, baseball & soccer fields, picnic tables & public restrooms.
Ferguson Park
Ferguson Park’s softball complex is ideal for tournament play with four lighted fields.
George Poston Park
North Carolina’s first asphalt pump track, designed for cyclists and skateboarders, mountain biking and more.
Goat Island Park
Goat Island Park, in the middle of the South Fork River, is a popular stop for visitors.
Harper Park
Kids delight in the splash pad and playground. Walk along a paved track or down the nature trail and more.
Kates Skating Rink
Kate’s Skating Rinks strives to be among the best family operated skating rinks in the United States; by providing each and every one of its’ customers a clean and wholesome environment that is affordable, safe, and fun, with a goal of continuously surpassing customer expectations.
Kevin Loftin Riverfront Park
Access the Catawba River via canoe, kayak or boat from this 10-acre riverfront park.
Kings Mountain State Park
The Piedmont’s Kings Mountain State Park has miles of forested trails perfect for supreme Kings Mountain hiking, two fishing lakes, and sits adjacent to Kings Mountain National Military Park, one of many national park Revolutionary War sites.
Lineberger Park
Gastonia’s first park provides both passive and active recreation opportunities on 18.5 acres.
Martha Rivers Park
Children head straight for “the castle” playground. The wooden structure houses a fort, a ship, a race car, slides and swings.
Mountain Island Park
Located below the dam this park features a 1.6-mile natural surface walking trail, mountain bike trails, fishing pier, a natural canoe/kayak launch area, playground, and group primitive campsites.
North Belmont Park
North Belmont Park located on Hickory Grove Road in Gastonia is a 35 acre park with lighted ball fields for softball, little league and soccer / football. There are also Three (3) covered picnic shelters with tables, restrooms, playground and a 0.5 mile track.
Patriots Park
Patriots Park in downtown Kings Mountain offers its visitors benches, picnic areas and tables, restrooms, a walking track and a sprayground for the kids.
Rankin Lake Park
The 80-acre lake, complete with fishing pier and boat dock. Canoes, kayaks, johnboats and pedal boats are available to rent.
Riverside Park
This park in Cramerton offers 300 feet of South Fork River frontage with a kayak launch, a 1-mile paved walking path, basketball court, and a fishing pier.
Robert H Ballard Park
Little League baseball fields, youth softball fields, a municipal pool, a playground,mwalking track and more.
Rocky Branch Park
The centerpiece of the 40-acre park is a hand-built single-track mountain biking trail for intermediate and advanced bikers.
Rocky Branch Park in Cramerton
This 55 acre wooded park that crosses municipal boundaries and connects the Town of Cramerton and the City of Belmont.
South Fork River Park
This 44-acre park has 800 feet of river frontage, equipped with a kayak launch and a1-mile paved walking trail.
Stowe Park
Located in the heart of downtown Belmont with access to the Carolina Thread Trail.
T Jeffers Center and Park
The community center is 15,058 square feet and includes a college-size basketball court with six goals and seating capacity for 350. The facility also contains dressing and shower rooms, meeting room, game room, lounge, kitchen, and staff offices. Outdoor facilities include a lighted youth baseball field, playground and two large picnic shelters.
The Mountain Island Educational State Forest
North Carolina's system of Educational State Forests has been developed for use as a living outdoor class room.
