Myers Park
Charlotte’s grandest early suburb, laid out in 1911 on a curving plan with a canopy of willow oaks over Queens Road. Freedom Park and Queens University sit inside it.
Myers Park is Charlotte’s grandest neighborhood. John Nolen planned it in 1911 on the Myers family farm south of Dilworth, with curving streets, a streetcar down Queens Road and the willow oaks that now form the most photographed canopy in the city. Queens University sits in the middle of it.
Where it is
- Queens Road and Queens Road West, the two great streets
- The Booty Loop, the road circuit around the university that doubles as the city’s running track
- Providence Road, Selwyn Avenue and Park Road, the commercial edges
- Freedom Park on the western boundary
If you’re moving here
Houses run from 1920s Colonials on quarter-acre lots to estates on Queens Road West, and prices run accordingly. The condos and apartments along Providence and Selwyn are the way in at a lower number. It’s five minutes from Uptown and feels an hour away. It suits families who want the private schools and the clubs close, and anyone who’d rather walk the Booty Loop than join a gym.
If you’re visiting
- Drive or walk Queens Road West in April, when the oak canopy is at its best
- Run or ride the Booty Loop with the runner guide or the cyclist guide
- Enter Freedom Park from the Princeton Avenue side; the Freedom Park guide explains
- Eat on Providence or Selwyn; the interior of the neighborhood is all houses