Overton Park
A leafy park with an old-growth forest and the Levitt Shell, where Elvis played his first paid concert in 1954.
- Open
- Daily, daylight hours
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 1.5 hours
- Address
- 1914 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN 38104Google MapsApple Maps
- Getting There
- About 10 minutes by car east of downtown.
Why Go
Midtown's central park has 126 acres of old forest, trails, a golf course, the Memphis Zoo and the Levitt Shell, a bandshell that hosts dozens of free concerts every spring and fall. Residents famously fought off a highway through it in a case that reached the Supreme Court in 1971.
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