Langan Park

Description

Langan Park, also known as Municipal Park, is a 720acre municipal park in the Spring Hill neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama, USA. The park opened in 1957 and was named for Joseph N. Langan, a former Mobile mayor, state senator and city commissioner. It has lakes, natural spaces, tennis courts, children’s playgrounds and picnic areas. It is also the site of the Azalea City Golf Course, the Mobile Botanical Gardens, the Mobile Museum of Art and Playhouse in the Park.ActivitiesThe Azalea City Golf Course is an 18-hole public golf course owned and operated by the city. It opened in 1957 and has hosted Professional Golfers Association events. In 1998, all eighteen greens were redesigned and updated to an average of 5500sqft per green and were planted in Champion Bermuda grass. The Mobile Tennis Center is a public tennis facility with 50 tennis courts, all lighted and hard-court, with a professional shop and professional instruction on site.The Mobile Botanical Gardens have a variety of flora spread over 100acre. The gardens contain a rhododendron garden with 1,000 evergreen and native azaleas and the 30acre Longleaf Pine Habitat. The Mobile Museum of Art has European, non-Western, American and decorative arts collections.