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This is a list of parks in Pittsburgh.All public parkland in the City of Pittsburgh is maintained by the Pittsburgh Department of Parks & Recreation and the Department of Public Works.
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Frick Park Playground on Beechwood Boulevard near Nicholson Street, opened in the early 1960s, features an unusual cement slide set into a hillside. Originally painted red and bordered by cobblestones, it is today painted blue and surrounded by rubberized playground surfacing. The playground is popularly known as Blue Slide Park. [12]
Point State Park (locally known as The Point) is a Pennsylvania state park which is located on 36 acres (150,000 m 2) in Downtown Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, US, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, forming the Ohio River.
The park was founded in 1889, and opened in 1893 after Pittsburgh Director of Public Works, Edward Bigelow, spent more than $900,000 in city funds to buy the land, parcel by parcel, from farmers. In 1898, Bigelow's cousin Christopher Lyman Magee created the Pittsburgh Zoo as an attraction to encourage customers to ride streetcar lines which ...
It is owned jointly by the City of Pittsburgh and the Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County [1] Established in 2001, North Shore Riverfront Park stretches about one mile (1.6 km) between the Kamin Science Center and the Three Sisters bridges— Roberto Clemente Bridge , Andy Warhol Bridge , and Rachel Carson Bridge .
South Park is a 2,013-acre (8.15 km 2) county park in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the second largest in the county's 12,000-acre (49 km 2 ) network of nine parks. History and notable features
Garfield is a neighborhood in the East End of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.Garfield is bordered on the South by Bloomfield and Friendship (at Penn Avenue), on the West by the Allegheny Cemetery (at Mathilda Street), on the North by Stanton Heights (at Mossfield Street), and on the East by East Liberty (at Negley Avenue).