Lake Concord Park: The Nine Acres Where Casselberry Keeps Its Art
A sculpture garden, boardwalk, amphitheater and splash pad wrapped around City Hall — Lake Concord Park is Casselberry's cultural center and event lawn in one address.
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Most city halls front a parking lot. Casselberry’s fronts a lake. Lake Concord Park wraps nine acres around City Hall at 95 Triplet Lake Drive, and the city describes it — accurately — as its artistic and cultural center: a sculpture garden under 150-year-old oaks, a boardwalk over the water, an amphitheater, fountains, a playground and a splash pad, with the Casselberry Art House and the city’s other galleries woven into the grounds. It is the front yard, cultural campus and event lawn of Casselberry in a single address, and the first place our Casselberry hub sends any visitor.
A park that is also a gallery
The sculpture garden is the park’s signature. Works are set through the lawns and along the paths so that a walk around the lake becomes a slow gallery visit — pieces catching the light off the water, benches placed where the art and the view coincide. The collection connects to the Art House in the park, to the Sculpture House nearby on Quail Pond Circle, and to quarterly exhibitions inside City Hall itself. Across the street, the Promenade expansion added landscaped walkways, two lit fountains, benches, bike racks, a small amphitheater area, another playground and several new sculptures, effectively doubling the campus feel.
The boardwalk earns its keep at golden hour. The loop around the pond is short — this is a stroll, not a hike — but it strings together the fountains, the amphitheater lawn and the sculpture placements into a complete circuit, and the oaks do the rest. Families split the difference easily: splash pad and playground for the kids, sculpture walk for the adults, picnic space for everyone.
The city’s event stage
Lake Concord Park has been Casselberry’s premier outdoor event venue since 2010, and the calendar shows it. The monthly food truck event takes over on the second Friday evening with live music and artisan vendors. Spring brings a jazz and art festival; the year also carries a Latin jazz and art festival, Earth Fest, the Food and Wine Festival in the fall, and the illuminated sculpture nights of iLLuminart. Many of the city’s events here are free to the community, with parking beside City Hall. We break the calendar down in our guide to Casselberry events at Lake Concord Park.
How to visit
Come on a weekday morning for the quiet version — sculpture garden, boardwalk, coffee in hand, the lake to yourself. Come on an event night for the communal version, when the amphitheater lawn fills and the fountains are lit. Either way, pair the park with its own buildings: the Art House and the Casselberry Arts Center sit right in the campus, and we cover them in our Casselberry art campus guide. Then let the park be the start of the wider day — Secret Lake Park and the Greenway Trail are minutes away, and dinner on SR 436 is closer still.
Lake Concord Park is the clearest expression of what Casselberry decided to be: a working Seminole County city that put its best nine acres in public hands and filled them with art. You will find it plotted on the Orlando Top Spots Map. Bring a picnic, walk the boardwalk slowly, and let the sculptures do what they were placed there to do.
It is worth saying plainly what the park is not. It is not a sports complex, not a thrill, and not a full-day attraction — Wirz and Secret Lake carry the active recreation, as our Casselberry parks guide explains. Lake Concord’s job is different: it is the city’s ceremonial ground, the place Casselberry gathers when it wants to be a community rather than a corridor — for festivals, for food truck nights, for art openings spilling onto the lawn. Judged on that job, it is one of the most successful small-city parks in Seminole County.
Photo: eyecmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr.
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