Burdette Park
Burdette Park is a historic 180-acre recreational park on Evansville’s west side, originally developed by the Everett Burdette American Legion Post in the 1920s. Known for its aquatic center, trails, camping, and unusual history as the site of a saltwater swimming area, the park has been an Evansville destination for generations.
The Monkey Ship at Mesker Park Zoo
For decades, one of Evansville’s strangest attractions looked like something out of a fever dream: A replica of Christopher Columbus’s Santa Maria. Filled with monkeys. Surrounded by a moat. With alligators in the water below. It sounds like an Evansville urban legend. It wasn’t. The Monkey Ship at Mesker Park Zoo was a one-third-scale concrete […]