Kids playing baseball in Chastain Park

Great concerts in Chastain Park

Plenty of landmarks in and around Chastain Park

Chastain Park a great place to relax!

Park Info

Chastain is a 260+ acre park, the largest in the City of Atlanta, in a highly underserved area with a growing population that includes multifamily residents. There are no other regional parks from Chamblee to Vinings, from Peachtree Creek to Sandy Springs.

Chastain Park is an historic park, designed to be a world-class park with state of the art recreational facilities in its heyday in the 1940s. Those facilities—the horse park, pool, golf course, tennis center, and amphitheatre—have expanded to serve thousands of people every year. The newest additions to the park are the recreation center, added in the 1970s, the 3.4 miles of PATH, added in the 1990s, and a children’s playground added in its current location in 2000, combining to bring in hundreds more to the park every month. The variety of recreational offerings makes Chastain one of the most diverse of any of the City parks.

Chastain’s Unique Operations: 11 Operating Partners

CPC is developing strong working relationships with park partners that manage the venues. (See “History” to track the shift from City management to for-profit and nonprofit venue operators.) The Conservancy works to coordinate park solutions that impact everyone—from parking and traffic problems, to security to infrastructure improvements. The Conservancy’s focus is the interface among all the programs, looking for comprehensive solutions that benefit park users.

Chastain Park Amphitheatre

For Live Nation and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra are the two primary venture partners that provide programming for the amphitheatre.

These two joint-venture partners fill a schedule of 60-70 concerts each year between April and October. LiveNation works with a minority partner, Haymon Productions to schedule 5-6 shows per season and works with the City to produce about 5 shows per season.

For the ASO, Chastain is their summer home.

Under an agreement with the City, $1 from each ticket and $3 from each car parked in the nearby lots goes into a trust fund that is used to support the infrastructure upgrades and maintenance at the park. In addition, the venture pays a rental fee to the City that goes into the City’s general fund.

Click here for map of amphitheater.

For Live Nation, City and Haymon Concert questions:
PH:404-233-2227
www.chastainseries.com
www.livenation.com

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
PH:404-733-5000
www.classicchastain.org

Chastain Arts Center

Chastain Arts Center is operated by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, a division of the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs. The Arts Center offers a wide variety of visual and creative cultural arts classes for all ages and skill levels throughout the year, as well as a tremendously popular Summer Arts Camp. Started in 1968, Chastain Arts Center is recognized as the first community arts center in the metro area.

Each year the Center enrolls over 2500 students in 5 sessions, plus more than 450 children in Art Camp each summer. The work of resident instructors and students is showcased twice each year in a large gallery in an adjacent building, along with an additional 4-5 exhibits of local and regional artists in both two-and three-dimensional media.

Chastain Arts Center
City of Atlanta, Office of Cultural Affairs
Erin Bailey, Facility Manager
PH:404-252-2927
www.bcaatlanta.com

Chastain Horse Park

Chastain Horse Park, Ltd. (CHP), a 501(c)(3) organization, was established in 1997. In 1998 they acquired a 20-year lease agreement to renovate and operate the stables property. CHP completed a $4 million development of the facility in 1999, including removal of existing structures that could not be salvaged, building a new clubhouse and four new barns, a large covered arena, fencing the entire site, constructing a new retention pond, burying utilities, adding new sanitary and storm systems as well as several retaining walls, and a new parking lot.

The CHP Therapeutic Riding Program for students with mental and physical disabilities and children-at-risk now serves over 350 students annually through summer camps and special therapeutic sessions throughout the year in addition to more than 145 students and adults each week. The school lesson program serves over 200 students each year. The program is accredited by NARHA (the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association). All the park’s instructors have attained a national instructor certification, and therapists have completed training through the American Hippotherapy Association.

NEW at Chastain Horse Park beginning in April: DRESSAGE lessons by Olympic/International eventer Imtiaz Anees. Taking place in the open and covered arenas on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Beginner to Intermediate students of all ages invited to register. Ride our horses, or trailer in your own horse – with the option of keeping your horse in one of our stalls overnight. Weekly boarding also available. For more information about our Olympic Instructor, please go to www.imtiazanees.com. If interested in lessons, please contact Mandy Branton at 404-252-4244, ext. 27 or at mbranton@chastainhorsepark.org .

SUMMER HORSE CAMPS Campers ride TWICE a day! 7:45am-2:00pm

Campers 6-8 Years of Age:
May 24-28; June 7-11; June 14-18;
July 5-9; July 12-16; July 19-23; July 19-23; July 26-30
$650/week tuition
$550/week reduced tuition for the following:
2nd week of camp / a sibling / a returning camper / lesson students who remain in lessons during the summer season

Register Now – Spaces are Limited. Enrollment forms are at http://www.chastainhorsepark.org/ridingprograms.php. Click the scroll icon in the camps section of the page to print registration form.

4-5 Years of Age: Tuesday June 1 – Friday June 4 Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
$500/week tuition
$450/week reduced tuition for the following:
2nd week of camp / a sibling / a returning camper / lesson students who remain in lessons during the summer season

Other offerings include the Hunter Equitation Program providing hunter/jumper riding lessons to the general public, horse boarding, and summer camps.

Chastain Horse Park
Mandy Branton, Executive Director
PH:404-252-4244 ext 27
Email:mbranton@chastainhorsepark.org
www.chastainhorsepark.org

Chastain Park Athletic Club (pool)

The Chastain Park Athletic Club (CPAC), formerly known as the North Atlanta Swim Association, is a nonprofit formed to partner with the City to save the pool from demolition and significantly improve the facility. CPAC now maintains and operates the pool, furthering its mission to promote aquatic sports and life safety through community outreach. Over 250 children ages 5-18 participate in swim teams.
Pool hours for the public is 10 pm-5 pm during the summer. Members and their guests have extended hours daily from 5-8 pm and until 9 pm on Friday. Check the web site for hours after school is in session. The pool had over 18,000 visitors in 2006 and is on track for over 20,000 in 2007.

Chastain Park Athletic Club
404-841-9196 (CPCA); 404-255-0863 (pool)
Email:jimking@mindspring.com or info@chastainparkAC.org
www.chastainparkAC.org

Chastain Recreation Center

Hours of operation and programs vary seasonally. The rec center offers two summer programs: table tennis for all ages on Tuesdays and Sundays and a fitness boot camp for adults on Monday nights. In addition to these programs, the facility is open to the public for free play and the use of the weight rooms Monday- Friday. During the fall, the center offers a men's basketball league, indoor soccer league, yoga classes, aerobic classes and salsa classes. Some new programs include organized bridge and chess tournaments. The Northside Youth Organization (NYO) operates a youth basketball league serving over 400 boys and girls out of the recreation center during the winter months.

Chastain Recreation Center
City of Atlanta, Office of Recreation
Sonia Wimbish, Community Facility Supervisor
PH: 404-237-2726
Email:sewimbish@atlantaga.gov

Chastain Tennis Center

The City of Atlanta and Chastain Park Conservancy are pleased to announce a groundbreaking of our new Chastain Tennis Center.

The new Chastain Tennis Center is one of the first of the major capital improvements set forth in the 2008 Master Plan approved by the City Council during the Franklin administration. The Astra Group will serve as contractor, and construction is projected to be complete in July 2010. The center’s tennis courts will be resurfaced but will remain open during construction and temporary offices will be established on site.

Consistent with the 2008 Master Plan’s emphasis on sustainability, the City has applied for certification of the tennis center as an Earthcraft building meaning it reaches certain criteria as a green, energy efficient building and is similar to a LEED certification. SouthFace will conduct periodic inspections during construction to be able to grant the Earthcraft certification to the City on completion. The Conservancy will assist the replanting of new trees to replace those damaged or removed due to construction.

The Chastain Park Conservancy and the PATH foundation will coordinate the slight rerouting of the PATH at the corner of Powers Ferry and Wieuca Road to ensure safety during construction. If you are coming to Chastain Park to walk or play tennis, the Conservancy would like to encourage you to park in the Red Lot (corner of Powers Ferry and Stella at the amphitheatre) and walk down to the courts to keep as much traffic out of the intersection as possible. Please use caution and look for new signs directing pedestrians in this area.

For more information, please contact the Executive Director of the Chastain Park Conservancy, Gip Johnston at 404-237-2177.

The original tennis center building built in the 1940s burned and was rebuilt in 1979. The present facility includes equipment sales, locker rooms, restrooms, offices and a small concession area. The Chastain facility is the smallest of the City’s tennis centers, but is the second busiest to another larger center. Chastain averages approximately 1,000 participants per month.

The center‘s year-round schedule is 9 am – 9 pm Monday-Friday; 8 am-6 pm, Saturday; 10 am-6 pm, on Sunday and most holidays for open play. The center is the home of many leagues, like USTA ,ALTA, K-Swiss, Peach, T2, Visionary, Dade FM.

The center also hosts numerous round robin tournaments on a regular or semi-regular basis. Open play is available on a first come, first served basis.

The center partners with The Galloway School to host their Varsity and Junior Varsity boys’ and girls' teams, in addition to assisting with their elementary student tennis classes. The center has several spring/summer programs, including the Chastain Tennis Academy for high-level playing juniors, and the Chastain Tennis Center Junior and Tot Summer Camps for youth 5-16 years of age. The center offers lessons for youth, teens, adults and seniors, including private, semi-private and group lessons.

Chastain Tennis Center
City of Atlanta, Office of Recreation
Peggy Johnson, Community Facility Supervisor
PH:404-255-3210
Email:pjohnson@atlantaga.gov

North Fulton Golf Course (American Golf)

This for-profit venture partner has recorded the greatest number of rounds per year of any public course in Georgia. The greens were rebuilt in 2006, making them comparable in quality to private golf clubs and increasing the attractiveness and enjoyment of playing at Chastain. In 2007, American Golf is rebuilding all the sand traps and installing a new drainage system throughout the course. The system improves the ‘playability’ of the course.

Beginning in 2008, 50 cents of the green fees go into trust fund to support park maintenance and infrastructure; half of this money is dedicated to Chastain Park and half goes to support parks throughout the City.

North Fulton Golf Course
King Simmons
PH:404-255-0723
Email:northfulton@americangolf.com

Northside Youth Organization (NYO)

NYO provides organized recreational athletic opportunities -- baseball, softball, basketball, football and cheerleading--for over 3,000 children, ages 5 to 16, every year. NYO serves children from Atlanta and Fulton County, with the program primarily run from Chastain Park. NYO is the largest youth, multi-sport organization in Georgia. NYO continues to operate programs under an agreement with the City of Atlanta—an ongoing agreement since 1966-- and maintains all of the facilities, paid for with fees and annual contributions.

NYO also provides scholarships to children in the City who desire to participate but cannot afford the registration fees. NYO also runs a Christopher League program, where handicapped children are paired with several NYO buddies from the program, and participate in a series of baseball games on the fields.

The NYO fields are also used, as an organized, scheduled activity, by the Galloway baseball and softball teams; the Sutton Middle School baseball team; and a variety of adult softball leagues. On an unscheduled and unorganized basis, the fields are used for adult volleyball and soccer games.

NYO is run by a volunteer board of directors, comprised of men and women from the Atlanta community who have or have had children participate in the youth sports programs, with one full time employee, who has acted as executive director for nearly 30 years.

Northside Youth Organization
Jane Wilkins
404-256-1483
Email:jane@nyosports.com
Mark Elliott
Email:mark.elliott@troutmansanders.com

PATH

This nonprofit is building Metro Atlanta's greenway trail system. The Chastain segment is 3.2 miles, circling the park: from W. Wieuca at Powers Ferry, the PATH goes south at the edge of the golf course and then crosses to Lake Forrest, heading north back to W. Wieuca. Another stretch goes across the northern tip of the park along Park Road and then down Pool Road to reconnect at W. Wieuca and Powers Ferry. This location was one of the first built in the metro area. PATH has currently built over 110 miles throughout Georgia. Funding is a combination of philanthropic, corporate, and private donations.

Pete Pellegrini
PH:404-875-7284
Email:Pete@pathfoundation.org
www.pathfoundation.org

The Galloway School

This private, co-educational school serves children from age 3 through high school. It was founded in 1967 at this site, leasing the Fulton County alms house. The school later purchased 8 acres from the County and has expanded to five buildings serving over 700 students from nearly 60 zip codes. The school’s mission is to encourage academic excellence while maintaining a student-centered focus.

The Galloway School
Phil Wendel
PH:404-252-8389
Email:p.wendel@gallowayschool.org