Central Park packs trails, sports fields and recreation into one site

Central Park is the kind of place that lets a Forsyth County family stay in one spot and still get a full day’s worth of recreation. At 2300 Keith Bridge Road in Cumming, the 121-acre site combines a walking trail, playground, disc golf, sports fields, tennis courts and an indoor recreation center, with daily hours from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

One address, many uses

The county’s park map shows how much is packed into the site. Central Park includes a paved walking trail, playground, picnic pavilion, recreation center, administrative office, maintenance facility, restrooms, a disc golf course, tennis courts, a baseball and softball complex, batting cages and a multi-purpose field complex. That mix makes it unusually practical for families trying to do more with one trip, whether the goal is a quick walk, a youth game, a pickup workout or a longer afternoon outside.

The layout also matters for everyday convenience. Multiple restroom locations, picnic pavilions and county operational buildings make the park easier to use for people who plan to stay longer, especially families with children, league players and older adults who need a reliable place to pause, cool off or gather between activities.

Outdoor space built for different age groups

Central Park works because it is not built around one kind of user. The 1.1-mile paved walking trail gives walkers and runners a simple loop that is easy to understand and easy to repeat. The playground serves younger children, while the 18-hole disc golf course with one practice basket gives teens and adults a lower-cost way to spend time outdoors without needing a full field reservation.

The sports inventory is what turns the park into a true recreation campus. Forsyth County lists 8 tennis courts, 5 youth baseball and softball fields, 4 adult softball fields and 3 turf multi-use rectangle fields. That combination supports everything from organized youth leagues to adult play and informal practice, which means one property can absorb a lot of the county’s routine recreation demand.

The recreation center extends the season

Inside the park, the Central Park Recreation Center makes the site useful when the weather turns hot, rainy or cold. The center opened in 2003, two years after the park itself opened in 2001, and it added gymnasiums, fitness spaces and classrooms to the campus. Today the center includes 2 indoor basketball courts, a cardio-weight room, an indoor walking track, dance and pottery classrooms, fitness classrooms, a multipurpose classroom, a community room and showers.

That indoor mix gives the park a rare kind of flexibility. A resident can walk outside in the morning, move indoors for basketball or a fitness class, then return to the fields or courts later in the day. For families balancing school schedules, youth sports and work, that kind of stacked use is what makes the site feel more like a community recreation hub than a single park.

A growing place for older adults too

Central Park’s role widened again in 2025 when Forsyth County opened Central Park Senior Recreation & Services at the same Keith Bridge Road address. The county held a ribbon-cutting on May 12, 2025, and a public grand-opening event on May 19, 2025, marking the move of senior services out of Charles Place and into a larger, more integrated setting.

County leaders also sought public input on senior-services amenities before the programming was finalized, which matters because it shows the campus was shaped around actual use, not just a top-down plan. That addition makes Central Park more than a youth-sports center or a place for weekend walkers. It now serves seniors who want organized programming, indoor space and easier access to the same recreational campus used by younger families.

Why it fits Forsyth County’s bigger parks system

Central Park is one part of a much larger county recreation network. Forsyth County says it operates 30 unique parks across nearly 3,000 acres, and the county’s parks department won the Georgia Recreation and Park Association’s Agency of the Year Award in the largest-population category in 2024, its fourth win in that category since 2016. Those numbers help explain why Central Park has been developed with so many layers of use instead of a single-purpose design.

The county is also revisiting what residents want next. In January 2026, Forsyth County announced public-input meetings for a 10-year Parks & Recreation Master Plan update. Central Park stands as a clear example of the model that appears to work best here: indoor and outdoor amenities in one place, enough room for leagues and casual use, and spaces that still serve well outside prime sports seasons.

For families watching time, mileage and weekend logistics, that combination is the value proposition. Central Park can handle a playground stop, a walking lap, a tennis match, a disc golf round, a field reservation and indoor recreation without sending anyone to another part of the county. In a fast-growing county where public space has to do more than one job, that kind of density is what keeps the park at the center of local recreation.