Acorn Live Music Series
Join us in the newly renovated Chapel Event Center for an intimate music series featuring local artists from the area. Shows are twice a month on Sunday afternoons.
Plaza & Play Public Meeting 3
Join us Tuesday, June 13 from 5:30 - 8:00 pm at the Chapel at Dix Park for the final public meeting where you can experience the design that our community helped to shape.
City of Sunflowers
Dix Park and NCMA are connecting Raleigh through fields of flowers this summer - with City of Sunflowers. Over 8 acres of sunflower are planted across both locations with multi-modal connections via our incredible greenway system.
Find your inner calm and balance with Tai Chi in beautiful Dix Park. All fitness levels welcome! This program is free thanks to Dix Park Conservancy donors.
Instructor: Tish Oakley
Juneteenth (June 19th) is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Celebrate the longest day of the year with Sunrise Yoga on Flowers Field! Led by local yoga instructors from CorePower Yoga, watch the sun rise over downtown Raleigh on the first day of summer as you breathe, stretch, relax and enjoy the peacefulness of nature.
Visit the Park
Getting to Dix Park
There are multiple entrances to Dorothea Dix Park. The most widely used entrances are Hunt Drive at Western Boulevard, South Boylan Avenue at Western Boulevard, Umstead Drive at Lake Wheeler Road, and Goode Street at Lake Wheeler Road. Because this is an active staff campus for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for the next few years, parking at Dorothea Dix Park is limited during business hours. On weekends, visitors may park in any of the parking areas striped green.
Hours
We heard from many community members that they desired a place to let their dogs run free while at the park, so we have transformed the former Athletic Field into a temporary dog park, open to the public seven days a week. This facility provides a much needed off-leash dog area for park visitors, with all other areas of Dix Park requiring dogs to be on-leash.