Cherokee Gardens

Cherokee Gardens is a residential area six miles east of downtown Louisville. The area is a collection of small, unconnected subdivisions along Lexington Road and large estates built just outside Cherokee Park.  Many of Louisville's early 20th Century elite lived in the area, drawn there by the large, undeveloped parcels of land near downtown. Most houses in the area were built from the 1920s to the 1950s.  Cherokee Park is a 409-acre municipal park. It was designed, like 18 of Louisville's 123 public parks, by Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture. Beargrass Creek runs through much of the park, and is crossed by numerous pedestrian and automobile bridges.