Macon's Parks and Recreation Department provides comprehensive programs and scheduling of services at community parks, recreation centers, and swimming pools. It also provides a comprehensive program for special populations and senior citizens.

DEPARTMENT FUNCTIONS

The Grounds and Facilities Division of Parks and Recreation, is responsible for maintaining over 750 acres of landscaping and beautification throughout the City of Macon. The areas include various park sites; from small neighborhood parks to Central City Park, the eight recreation centers, the Senior Citizens Center, the two tennis centers, City Hall, downtown Macon, Booker T. Washington Community Center, various traffic islands and rights-of-way, five city cemeteries, and additional areas that we are asked to help landscape and maintain each year.

We maintain a full-service greenhouse where we grow the majority of all the plants, flowers, and shrubs used around the city.
Our duties include but are not limited to, mowing, trimming, weeding, pruning, and fertilizing all parks and beautification areas that we maintain. We plant our flower beds and park landscaping highlights once in the spring for the summer and once in the fall for the winter. We constantly work these areas to keep them beautiful. We have rose beds that require constant attention. Also, we have 82 hanging baskets to water daily to maintain their beauty. We have a prison detail that helps with mowing and trimming downtown.

We are responsible for five cemeteries: Rose Hill, Evergreen, Fort Hill, Fort Hawkins, and the Old Seventh Street Cemetery. We have a regular prison detail that helps us very much with maintaining them along with our regular grounds crews. The Grounds & Facilities Division is called upon to help maintain many additional areas across the city. These include E911, Eastview Police Precinct, Police Training Academy, Medical Dispensary, Fire Administration, Fire Station 92, Cherry Street and New Street Parking lots, Shurlington Library, Building Maintenance, Guy Paine Road Crime Lab, the Macon Centreplex and Chamber of Commerce. We mow and trim these areas as well as plant and maintain all the flower beds and landscaping.