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Park installation coming soon
Rendering of Cradle of Country Music Park
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Construction Timeline

LATE MAY
Site preparation
Next in timeline
EARLY JUNE
Lights and benches removed, additional fencing constructed, temporary use of parking spaces for construction materials
Next in timeline
MID JUNE-FALL 2023
Construction of base of project
Next in timeline
LATE FALL 2023
Installation of the artwork
Next in timeline
2024
New space is open to the public



2022 Tree Mitigation Plan
• One tree scheduled to be removed
• 14 new trees to be added
• View Tree Preservation Plan [PDF]

Diagram of Tree Mitigation


Cradle of Country Music Park


  Cradle of Country Music Park
  PARK DETAILS
  • .44 acre
  RIDE THE BUS TO THIS PARK
  KATRoute 22 or Green Line Trolley - Summit Hill at Gay St.
  City Council District: 6
   
Cradle of Country Music Park 

204 S. Gay St.
Knoxville, TN 37902

Downtown


Directions: From I-40, take exit 388A onto TN-158 West/James White Parkway; in .4 miles take exit for W Summit Hill Drive; in .2 miles turn right onto Gay Street.


This nearly half acre triangle shaped park sits at the corner of Summit Hill Drive and Gay Street and has been the location of temporary art from the Dogwood Art's Arts in Public Places program.


HISTORY OF THE PARK

In 1986, the Cradle of Country Music Park was created to recognize Knoxville's role in the promotion of Country music. The park is included on the East Tennessee Historical Society's Cradle of Country Music Walking Tour.

Also in 1986, the Knoxville News Sentinel donated an 18-foot 6,000-pound sculpture of a musical Treble Clef to honor the city's country music heritage and celebrate the paper's 100th anniversary, In 2009, the Treble Clef sculpture, made of fiberglass and metal, was removed due to deterioration and being beyond repair.

Starting in 2014, the Dogwood Arts Festival provided a sculpture piece for the park as part of their Art in Public Places Program. A new sculpture was installed each year.