Langan Park

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title: "Langan Park" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["parks-in-mobile,-alabama"] description: "Public park in Mobile, Alabama, US" topic_path: "general/parks-in-mobile-alabama" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langan_Park" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Public park in Mobile, Alabama, US ::

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Field	Value
name	Langan Park
photo	Langan Park.jpg
photo_width	280
photo_caption	Langan Park near the Mobile Museum of Art.
type	Public park
location	Mobile, Alabama, US
area	720 acre
created	1957
operator	The City of Mobile
status	Open all year
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| name = Langan Park | photo = Langan Park.jpg | photo_width = 280 | photo_caption = Langan Park near the Mobile Museum of Art. | type = Public park | location = Mobile, Alabama, US | coords = | area = 720 acre | created = 1957 | operator = The City of Mobile | visitation_num = | status = Open all year Langan Park, also known as Municipal Park, is a 720 acre municipal park in the Spring Hill neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama, US. 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.

Activities

The 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 5500 sqft 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 100 acre. The gardens contain a rhododendron garden with 1,000 evergreen and native azaleas and the 30 acre Longleaf Pine Habitat. The Mobile Museum of Art has European, non-Western, American and decorative arts collections.

Playhouse in the Park began in 1961 and concentrates on training young people in theatre arts. The program includes four large productions a year and consists of a training program for drama, dance, vocal, piano and scenic art classes. It also includes a traveling professional drama troupe and a full-scale puppet theatre.

Invasive species

The main lake in the park has become home to several invasive species, including the channeled applesnail and tilapia. Both are known to be very destructive to the native aquatic vegetation. Biologists speculate that the snails were most probably dumped into the lake from home aquaria. In 2009, applesnails were found downstream from the lake in Three Mile Creek, posing an immediate threat to the entire Mobile-Tensaw River Delta.

References

References

1. "Parks". "Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce".
2. "Azalea City Golf Course". "The City of Mobile".
3. "Welcome to the Mobile Tennis Center". "Mobile Tennis Center".
4. "Explore the Gardens". Mobile Botanical Gardens.
5. "General Information". Mobile Museum of Art.
6. "The Playhouse in the Park". Mobile Playhouse in the Park.
7. Raines, Ben. (2 August 2009). "Invasion of snails: Officials plot their attack". Press-Register.
8. D. Shelton, pers. comm. In: United States Geological Survey. 2008. ''Pomacea canaliculata''. [[United States Geological Survey

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