The Parklands of Floyds Fork
Floyds Fork is a 62-mile-long (100 km)tributary of the Salt River in Kentucky, directly south and east of Louisville. It begins in Henry County, near Smithfield Kentucky flows through eastern Jefferson County and flows into the Salt River near Shepherdsville in Bullitt County.
It runs for about 30 miles (48 km) through Jefferson County and drains approximately 122 square miles (320 km2), making it the largest watershed in the county. It is also the least environmentally compromised watershed in the county, according to the Metropolitan Sewer District, as large-scale development in the southeastern portions of Jefferson County is still relatively sparse. To preserve its rural character, much of Floyds Fork south of I-64 was zoned rural residential in 1993.
The proposed City of Parks initiative by Louisville would purchase 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of land along the river and establish three to four parks, as well as hiking and other recreational trails.
Floyds Fork is named for John Floyd, an early surveyor of the area. During the Civil War, Confederate and Union forces skirmished on Floyds Fork and what is now US 60 (Shelbyville Road, locally) on October 1, 1862.
In August 2010, Louisville's newest public parks system was named according to the waterways, the one unifying feature that tie the four primary parks together, and that run through and unite the nearly 4,000 acres (16 km2) of park system being created in the eastern and southeastern part of the county;
A 3.5-mile-long (5.6 km) narrow strip of connecting land between Pope Lick Park and Turkey Run Park, called "The Strand", will encompass another 353 acres (1.43 km2).
Turkey Run will be the city's second-largest park, behind the Jefferson Memorial Forest.
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