Dirt Bowl, Algonquin Park

DIRT BOWL -

In 1969, Louisville natives and

Algonquin Park supervisors Janis

Carter and Ben Watkins created

the Dirt Bowl. What began as

pickup games grew into a playground

basketball tournament. Named for

the dirt surrounding the courts at

Algonquin Park, the Dirt Bowl moved

to Shawnee Park in 1971.

Sponsored by Metro Councilwoman Keisha Dorsey

in celebration of the 50thanniversary of the Dirt Bowl.

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ALGONQUIN PARK -

Algonquin Park was designed by

Olmsted Brothers, a well-known

landscape architecture firm, in

1929. The sixteen-acre Algonquin

Park is one of seventeen parks in

Louisville laid out by Olmsted

and his sons over a fifty-year

period and is a part of the city’s

historic Olmsted Parks and

Parkways System.

Olmsted Parks Conservancy.

Dedicated August 14, 2021.