Cyanide Park, Tarkwa

Cyanide Park is a public park and athletic green space in Tarkwa, in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of Ghana's Western Region. It is mapped in OpenStreetMap as a leisure=park polygon (way 739548717) under the name "Cyanide Park", and a community gazetteer describes it as a park near Nximafokrom in the Tarkwa Nsuaem district. Travel listings characterise it as an athletic park used for recreation and outdoor activities.

The site's best-known feature is the Cyanide Astro Turf, a synthetic pitch with ancillary facilities inaugurated at Tarkwa in 2022, on a Saturday, and reported on 2 September 2022. The project was initiated by George Mireku Duker, Member of Parliament for Tarkwa-Nsuaem, and funded by the Coastal Development Authority (CODA), with construction beginning in June 2020. At commissioning it was described as a phase-three pitch "fitted for all sports activities"; a post by the MP indicated it would serve not only football but also lawn tennis, handball and volleyball. The stated aims were to expand sports infrastructure, widen sports inclusion among the municipality's youth, and help develop future talent.

Beyond sport, the park has served as a venue for large public gatherings. The Gold Fields Ghana Foundation hosted a public viewing of a Ghana versus England match there, and the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipal Assembly promoted live screenings of Black Stars group-stage matches at the park.

The park sits in the Cyanide locality, which has its own community leadership — an Odikro of Cyanide — and is the subject of municipal projects, including an ongoing community centre funded by the Mineral Development Fund.

Practical detail is limited. A travel guide notes parking available near the park and places it in the heart of Tarkwa, reachable from Sekondi-Takoradi via the Tarkwa Road (N1) roughly 30 km to the north. Opening hours, entry fees, booking arrangements and current pitch access are not confirmed by the available sources, so visitors should treat those as unknown rather than assume public or free use.