Lions Park

Use South Lions Park Drive for the lake, playgrounds, beach, shelters, and Dunbar Field. Use 710 South Lions Park Drive for Cheyenne Botanic Gardens. Navigate directly to the Aquatic Center, community house, or your reserved facility.

Yes. South Lions Park has a newer ADA- and CPSI-compliant playground plus another play area elsewhere in the park. Paul Smith Children's Village inside the Botanic Gardens offers a separate educational garden experience with its own hours.

Yes. The park includes an Aquatic Center and seasonal spray park, while Sloan's Lake has an expanded sand beach and seasonal paddleboat or water-recreation service. Each operates independently from general park hours.

Developed paths and park roads support walking around the lake and connections among gardens, fields, shelters, playgrounds, and recreation facilities. Snow, ice, events, and maintenance can affect individual sections.

Yes. Developed facilities include restrooms, and Dunbar Field received a new restroom and concession building in May 2026. Permanent north and south shelter restrooms have historically closed for winter, with a portable restroom at South Lions Park.

Yes. Picnic shelters and the community house support gatherings, with reservations managed through Cheyenne Community Recreation and Events. Select the exact facility and confirm capacity, parking, restrooms, and seasonal services.

Major destinations include Sloan's Lake and beach, Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, Paul Smith Children's Village, playgrounds, Aquatic Center and spray park, Dunbar Field, picnic areas, and the park's broad open lawns.

Spray park, aquatic programming, paddleboats, concessions, permanent park restrooms, gardens facilities, and field operations use seasonal schedules. Winter weather can also affect paths and lake-edge access; confirm the exact destination before traveling.

Parking is distributed along South Lions Park Drive near the lake, shelters, playgrounds, fields, Botanic Gardens, Aquatic Center, and community house. Choose the exact destination before entering; large events can fill or redirect the closest lots, and the City recommends carpooling, biking, or walking for major festival days.

Mature trees and picnic shelters provide shade around portions of the lake, playgrounds, and gathering areas, and the park's amphitheater and shelters can be rented. Kiwanis Community House, Aquatic Center, Botanic Gardens, and other buildings have separate admission, rental, or operating hours. The lake, beach, spray park, ballfields, open lawns, and paths can be exposed; during lightning, hail, high wind, or extreme cold or heat, use a confirmed-open substantial building or enclosed vehicle rather than trees or an open shelter.

No. Cheyenne requires dogs in public parks to remain physically leashed, and Lions Park is not a designated off-leash area. Keep pets attached around Sloan's Lake, paths, lawns, and picnic grounds, remove waste, and follow posted exclusions at the beach, spray park, playgrounds, Botanic Gardens, Aquatic Center, athletic facilities, and special events.

Do not assume a fixed-route bus stops at the park entrance or at every Lions Park destination. Use Cheyenne Transit's current route map or call with the exact address for the Botanic Gardens, Aquatic Center, Sloan's Lake beach, Dunbar Field, or amphitheater. If the nearest stop leaves an impractical walk, arrange a rideshare or eligible paratransit trip and confirm return-service hours.

General park, lake-edge, playground, paths, beach, and open-space access are free. Gardens programs, Aquatic Center, spray park, rentals, reservations, concessions, and organized sports may charge.

OpenStreetMap marks this park as wheelchair accessible.