Parks & Outdoors

Geocaching is a high-tech outdoor treasure-hunting game played with a GPS-capable device. Locate hidden containers called “caches,” trade items of equal or greater value found in some larger caches and then sign the logbook before sharing your experience online. After obtaining coordinates and hints from www.geocaching.com, you can begin your search. Download the free app. Nearly all Coweta County parks and recreation facilities contain caches; visit the website link for the full list.

Hunter Complex offers a gymnasium with one classroom, two tennis courts, three football fields, four youth baseball/softball fields, two adult softball fields, an ADA baseball field, a pavilion, a playground, walking trail and an 18-hole disc golf course.

This park includes four baseball/softball fields, two multipurpose fields, restrooms and a walking trail.

This recently restored property was once a schoolhouse and now boasts of a gymnasium, playground, outdoor restrooms, a pavilion and a paved walking trail with fitness stations.

Madras Park complex is the perfect site for your next gathering with a banquet room that features a stage and kitchen area as well as four classrooms that can serve as breakout space.

Established in 1833, Oak Hill Cemetery is a 60-acre property with over 12,000 gravesites. Located just a few blocks north of downtown Newnan, it is the final resting place for some of the county’s most prominent citizens, including two Georgia governors and several congressmen. In addition to serving as the burial ground for 270 Confederate soldiers (representing every state in the confederacy), Oak Hill is also the final resting place for soldiers from the Revolutionary War (James Akens and William Smith), as well as soldiers from World War I, World War II, Vietnam and Korea. Self-guided tour brochures are available.

Ideally situated alongside the Chattahoochee River, this park includes a boat ramp, paved parking and picnic tables.

Visit Senoia Raceway and “play in the clay” at Georgia’s fastest 3/8-mile high-banked dirt oval track. Check back often as the website is continually updated, including events, photos and more.

House of Pickleball, or The HOP, is a 15-court pickleball facility located near downtown Newnan. The HOP is a city of Newnan public facility and may be enjoyed by all. Pickleball is a paddleball sport that combines elements of badminton, table tennis, and tennis. Two or four players use solid paddles made of wood or composite materials to hit a perforated polymer ball, much like a wiffle ball, with 26 to 40 round holes, over a net.

The LINC is a multipurpose trail built on public rights of way and greenspace, creating a network of paved paths for recreating and socializing in Newnan. The trail system is enjoyed by walkers, runners, skaters, bicyclists and people using non-motorized vehicles.