If you walked or drove past Brook Run Park's baseball fields this week, you saw the orange fencing and the sign about turf repairs. The closure ran Tuesday, September 8 through today, September 13, and if you've lived in Dunwoody long enough to know the rhythm of this park, your first read on that sign was probably wrong.
The instinct is to see a closed field and a finale concert on the calendar in the same month and assume the park is packing it in for the season. It isn't. Brook Run doesn't have an off-season. It has a rotation, and September is the month where that rotation is most visible if you know where to look.
Two Nights Left, Not Zero
Groovin' on the Green, the free concert series that's been the park's headline draw since June, is down to its final stretch. This past Saturday brought the End of Summer Bash, a Billy Joel and Elton John tribute act called Piano Man vs. Rocket Man. The series wraps October 10 with a Bon Jovi tribute, Slippery When Wet, closing out the season. Both nights start at 6 p.m. at the Brook Run Park Amphitheater, admission is free, and the format hasn't changed all summer: bring a chair or a blanket, pack a cooler if you want, or grab something from a food truck on site.
That's the part of the calendar most people already track, because it's the loudest. It's also the only piece of Brook Run's programming that actually ends this fall. Everything else on this list keeps running.
The Fields Went Dark Because They Needed a Break, Not the Park
The turf closure is worth a second look, because it tells you something the concert schedule doesn't. The city didn't shut down the baseball and multi-use fields because fall usage drops off. It shut them down because a full spring and summer of Dunwoody Senior Baseball games, youth soccer, adult flag football, and pickup games wears artificial turf down enough that it needs a mid-season repair to stay playable. A field doesn't need maintenance like that unless it's been used hard, consistently, for months.
The closure wraps today, with the fields set to reopen tomorrow. If your regular pickup game or your kid's practice got rerouted to Peachtree Charter Middle School's lot for parking during the closure, that inconvenience was a byproduct of the park working overtime, not slowing down.
What Doesn't Take a Season Off
The DHA Farmers Market is the clearest example of a Brook Run fixture that has nothing to do with the concert calendar. It runs every Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the front of the park, across from the playground, and the 2026 season stretches from January 17 through December 19. Out of 52 Saturdays, it closes exactly two: April 25 for Lemonade Days and July 4. That means the market, run by the Dunwoody Homeowners Association since 2018, is open on 50 out of 52 Saturdays this year, including every Saturday left in fall and into December. Thirty to thirty-five vendors rotate through each week selling produce, meats, seafood, baked goods, and ready-to-eat food. Parking is free, and leashed dogs are welcome.
Here's the split, laid out plainly:
| Ends with the season | Keeps running through winter |
|---|---|
| Groovin' on the Green concerts (final night October 10) | DHA Farmers Market, every Saturday through Dec. 19 |
| Turf field closures for repair (reopening tomorrow) | Skate park, open daily year-round |
| Dog park, 7 a.m. to sunset daily | |
| Disc golf course, no seasonal closure | |
| Community garden, open whenever a volunteer is on site |
The concert series and the field closure are the two things with a hard stop date. Nearly everything else on this list is built to run continuously.
The Corners of the Park Most Residents Never Check
Brook Run is 110 acres, the largest park in Dunwoody and in the surrounding region, and most of that acreage isn't concert lawn. The skate park alone covers 27,000 square feet, making it the largest in metro Atlanta, and it's fully lighted and open seven days a week, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Helmets are required, but there's no season attached to any of that.
The disc golf course starts near the community garden and winds through the wooded part of the property with nine tee pads offering both long and short baskets. The dog park, roughly two wooded acres of off-leash space tucked toward the back of the property, is open from 7 a.m. to sunset every day, tree canopy included, which matters more once the summer heat breaks and fall walks get more appealing. The community garden itself is run by a nonprofit that donates about 20 percent of what it grows to a local charity. There's no posted schedule because the garden operates on volunteer presence: if the gate at the main garden across from the dog park or the greenhouses next to the skate park is unlocked, someone's there and visitors are welcome to look around.
And then there's Treetop Quest, the elevated adventure course with 52 obstacles and 12 zip lines spread across four courses of varying difficulty. It's the one amenity in the park that requires a reservation and a fee rather than free walk-up access, but it runs on its own calendar entirely separate from the concert series or the farmers market.
Already on the Calendar for the Cold Months
Two more Brook Run traditions are worth marking down now, before the fall gets busy. Truck or Treat, organized by Dunwoody Parks and Recreation, the Dunwoody Police Department, and the Homeowners Association, is typically held on the last Thursday of October and brings food trucks, live music, and trick-or-treating to the park in place of a traditional neighborhood route. Then in December, Brook Run Holiday Lights takes over the park with more than 150,000 lights, a display that's become its own seasonal draw well after the last Groovin' on the Green chord has faded.
None of this requires the concert series to still be running. That's the point. Brook Run was never a summer park with a long winter nap. It's a park where one visible, loud event ends on schedule every October while a half dozen quieter ones just keep going, week after week, through the parts of the year most people assume the park goes still.
If you're the kind of Dunwoody resident who plans a Saturday around the farmers market or takes the dog to Brook Run after work most nights, you already knew some of this. If the turf closure sign made you think the park was winding down, it's worth walking the loop again this weekend and seeing what's actually still open.
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