Memorial Park, a municipal park in Houston, Texas, is one of the largest urban parks in the United States. Opened in 1924, the park covers approximately 1,466 acres (6 km2) inside the 610 Loop, across from the neighborhood of Memorial. Memorial Drive runs through the park, heading east to downtown Houston and west to the 610 Loop. I-10 borders the park to the north.
The park includes the 18-hole Memorial Park Golf Course, Texas’s top-rated municipal golf course which opened in 1936. The park also has facilities for tennis, softball, swimming, track, croquet, volleyball, skating, cycling and a running course (2.93 miles), and is very popular with Houston joggers. The park is home to the Seymour Lieberman Exercise Trail, a 2.93 mile crushed granite pathway that sees almost 3 million visits annually.
On the south side of Memorial Drive, there are miles of multi-use trails through the woods, a 'picnic' loop which is used heavily by road cyclists, softball fields, sand volleyball courts and a field for playing rugby or soccer.
