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==Parks and recreation== * Hunter Park is Douglasville's largest park, and is home to the county [[Boys & Girls Clubs of America|Boys & Girls Club]]. Many festivals, sports activities, and recreational activities take place here. The park features a playground, wildlife pond and trail, seven tennis courts, 11 baseball/softball fields, including one designed for the handicapped, and an 18-hole [[disc golf]] course that opened in 2015. The small train for children that operated during the summer no longer exists, but the track for the train still remains. The park is named after the late 1st Lt. "Jerry" Hunter (USAF), Douglas County's first casualty of the [[Vietnam War]]. * Boundary Waters Park, located on GA Highway 92 North/Highway 166 East, has several pools which are open to the public. The Boundary Waters Aquatic Center<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.celebratedouglascounty.com/view/departments/view_dept/%26cdept%3D195%26department%3DBoundary+Waters+Aquatic+Center|title=Douglas County, Georgia USA|website=www.celebratedouglascounty.com|access-date=July 12, 2018|archive-date=July 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712055408/http://www.celebratedouglascounty.com/view/departments/view_dept/%26cdept%3D195%26department%3DBoundary+Waters+Aquatic+Center|url-status=dead}}</ref> features an eight-lane, 25-yard heated competition pool and a four-lane, heated therapeutic/teaching pool. The center is home to the Douglas County Stingrays<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.teamunify.com/Home.jsp?team=gsdcs|title=Douglas County Stingrays|website=www.teamunify.com}}</ref> swim team as well as local high school and Special Olympics swim teams. The park complex includes an array of ball fields, walking and horseriding trails,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.celebratedouglascounty.com/view/global/viewdownload/&docid=5548&file=/Boundary_Waters_Trail_Map_Includes_Greenway_1-8-15.pdf |title=Map |website=www.celebratedouglascounty.com }}</ref> and an 18-hole disc golf course<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.celebratedouglascounty.com/view/global/viewdownload/&docid=3635&file=/brochure_of_disc_golf.pdf |title=Brochure |website=www.celebratedouglascounty.com }}</ref> In late 2021, the new Boundary Waters Activity Center<ref>{{Cite web|title=Boundary Waters Activity Center {{!}} Douglas County, GA|url=https://www.celebratedouglascounty.com/677/Boundary-Waters-Activity-Center|access-date=2022-02-01|website=www.celebratedouglascounty.com}}</ref> opened up in the park. The new facility has two basketball courts, an indoor walking track, and a fitness room. * Deer Lick Park<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.celebratedouglascounty.com/view/departments/view_dept/&cdept=207&department=Deer+Lick+Park|title=Douglas County, Georgia USA|website=www.celebratedouglascounty.com|access-date=July 6, 2022|archive-date=July 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712055054/http://www.celebratedouglascounty.com/view/departments/view_dept/%26cdept%3D207%26department%3DDeer+Lick+Park|url-status=dead}}</ref> is located approximately {{convert|3|mi|0}} south of Interstate 20 and east of the city limits on Mack Road. This 66-acre park features softball fields, a sand volleyball court, an 18-hole disc golf course, tennis courts, a gymnasium, and batting cages. It also hosts a three-acre fishing lake with a pier, playground, an amphitheater, gazebo, group shelters, and restroom facilities. * The West Pines Golf Club<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westpinesgc.com/|title=West Pines Golf Club - Douglasville, GA β Welcome to West Pines Golf Club!|website=www.westpinesgc.com}}</ref> was purchased by the city in 2003 and is now operated as a public course. * The Fowler Field Soccer Complex<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.douglasville.ga.us/115/Fowler-Field-Park|title=Fowler Field Park - Douglasville, GA - Official Website|website=www.ci.douglasville.ga.us|access-date=December 13, 2016|archive-date=December 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220120626/http://www.ci.douglasville.ga.us/115/Fowler-Field-Park|url-status=dead}}</ref> is located in the southwest part of the city, on Chapel Hill Road. * The Chestnut Log Soccer Complex is located on Pope Road beside Chestnut Log Middle School, about Β½ mile west of SR 92 (Fairburn Road). * Jesse Davis Park is located north of downtown Douglasville and serves as a neighborhood park for residents of North Douglasville. The park was recently renovated, and has a playground and a community swimming pool. * [[Sweetwater Creek State Park]] is a {{convert|2549|acre|km2|adj=on}} park {{convert|7|mi|0}} east of Douglasville. The park has {{convert|9|mi|0}} of wooded trails that follow the stream to the ruins of the New Manchester Manufacturing Company, a textile mill burned during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. The park has a {{convert|215|acre|km2|adj=on}} lake with two fishing docks, canoe and fishing boat rentals, 11 picnic shelters, playground, visitors center and museum. * Clinton Nature Preserve<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.celebratedouglascounty.com/view/departments/view_dept/%26cdept%3D211%26department%3DClinton+Nature+Preserve|title=Douglas County, Georgia USA|website=www.celebratedouglascounty.com|access-date=July 12, 2018|archive-date=July 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712053252/http://www.celebratedouglascounty.com/view/departments/view_dept/%26cdept%3D211%26department%3DClinton+Nature+Preserve|url-status=dead}}</ref> located {{convert|7|mi|0}} west of Douglasville, is a 200-acre historical preserve, located off the Post Road exit of Interstate 20, which features a pre-Civil War log cabin, picnic areas, walking and mountain biking trails, a gravel walking track, fishing, an outdoor amphitheatre, and a 100-percent disabled-accessible children's play garden.
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