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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. Addental support is provided by the nonprofit Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy. Some park are private and others are managed by the city's colleges and universities.
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy was founded in December 1996 by a group of citizens concerned with the deteriorating conditions of Pittsburgh’s historic city parks. A non-profit organization, the Parks Conservancy works closely with the City of Pittsburgh under an official public-private partnership agreement to restore and improve the city’s park system to its full potential.
Frick Park is the largest municipal park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, covering 644 acres (1.006 sq mi). It is one of Pittsburgh's four historic large parks. It is one of Pittsburgh's four historic large parks.
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.
Schenley Park (/ ˈ ʃ ɛ n l i /) is a large municipal park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.It is located between the neighborhoods of Oakland, Greenfield, and Squirrel Hill.
Allegheny Riverfront Park is a municipal park that runs along the south bank of the Allegheny River in Downtown Pittsburgh.. It is a parcel of the Three Rivers Park, the city's grand urban waterfront park project along its rivers that will provide a continuous green trail connecting existing and future riverfront developments.
Mellon Park is a park in the Shadyside and Point Breeze neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, straddling both sides of Fifth Avenue, from approximately Shady Avenue to Penn Avenue, the western corner abutting Pittsburgh Center for the Arts building. The southern part of the park is home to the Walled Garden and the park holds events ...
Schenley Plaza's carousel. From 2004–2006 the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, in partnership with the City of Pittsburgh oversaw a major renovation of the plaza, funded in part by the Oakland Investment Committee, restoring it as a grand entrance to the park.