Watterson Park is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.

[3] Watterson Park is located in central Jefferson County.

Interstate 264 runs just north of the city limits, while Newburg Road forms the northeast border and Poplar Level Road (Kentucky Route 864) forms parts of the southwest border.

Watterson Park is bordered to the east by West Buechel, and Poplar Hills touches a small length of the southwest boundary.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Watterson Park has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.7 km2), of which 1.9 acres (7,888 m2), or 0.21%, are water.