Come Play
Outdoor recreation
Mayfield Parks
Mayfield & Graves County has many options for outdoor recreation, including 6 parks, a baseball complex, a soccer complex, a golf course, and an 8,265-acre national wildlife refuge. Kess Creek Park (201 Locust Street) includes a disc golf course, a fishing pond, a spray park, walking trails, picnic pavilions, and playground equipment.
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Kaler Bottoms National Wildlife Refuge
Graves County also is home to a National Wildlife Refuge located in Kaler Bottoms, eight miles northeast of Mayfield. This Refuge includes 1,843 acres along a 40-mile stretch of Clarks River. There are no established roads or trails, but hunting, fishing, and wildlife viewing are allowed, by season and Kentucky law. This is the only National Wildlife Refuge located entirely within Kentucky and it is owned by the Kentucky Department of Wildlife.
Dunbar Park
Visit Dunbar Park (631 S. 12th St.) to see the remarkable talents of two Mayfield-Graves County artists: Helen LaFrance and Ellis Wilson. LaFrance and Wilson are considered two of the most iconic African American artists in the history of painting. Beautiful murals on either side of the outdoor pavilion were created by Kenneth Burney and Stephanie Say, of the group Art Inc. of Lexington, Kentucky.
Dunbar Park also includes traditional outdoor recreational activities including a playground, basketball court, concrete cornhole boards, and picnic tables.
Dunbar Park originally was home to Dunbar School, a segregated school until 1958, when Mayfield and Dunbar schools integrated and the park was created to pay homage to the school’s history.