World's Fair Park was the site of the 1982 World's Fair and today is a city park with ten acres of green space and gardens. It houses the 300-foot Sunsphere, a glittering landmark constructed for the fair but now closed to the public. The park has four main areas—the festival lawn, the lake area, the performance lawn, and the amphitheater. The performance lawn, roughly the size of two football fields, is a natural amphitheater ideal for summer concerts, festivals, and community events. The nearby festival lawn, another two acres of green space, stands adjacent to the Court of Flags Fountain, another symbol of the 1982 World's Fair. Noteworthy strolls include the Lawn and Water Walks, which take visitors through the festival and performance lawns, the stream, and the lake; the HGTV Walk, which starts at the north part of the park near the Court of Flags Fountain and takes visitors through the park's beautiful flower gardens; and the Sergei Rachmaninoff Walk, which passes a statue of the famous Russian composer and celebrates his last public performance, at the University of Tennessee in February 1943.

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