We count on your financial support to keep our parks beautiful, clean, and safe for all to enjoy!Explore your Buffalo Olmsted Parks with the free self-guided mobile audio tours! Funds will support conservancy’s ongoing efforts to maintain & sustain Buffalo’s Olmsted parks, landscapes Typically near the busy Labor Day weekend, the Buffalo Olmsted Parks … ©Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy.

They form green corridors which extended the park experience throughout the city. The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, not-for-profit community organization that promotes, preserves and ensures the Olmsted Parks and Parkways in Buffalo. Close to home is Symphony Circle. I played basketball and ran (a little) cross-country there during high school. Cazenovia Park 2. Delaware Park (North Buffalo) 3. Special thanks to The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy is the first nonprofit organization in the nation to manage and operate an entire historic urban park system that consists of 850 acres of beautifully designed parks, parkways and circles.Our mission is to promote, preserve, restore, enhance, and maintain the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed parks and parkways in the Greater Buffalo area for current and future generations.Explore your Buffalo Olmsted Parks with the free self-guided mobile audio tours! 0 . Olmsted began his work in Buffalo in 1868. About . Riverside Park 6. South Park He continued to design public grounds for the rapidly expanding city’s Today the majority of Olmsted’s designs in Buffalo are substantially intact. Buffalo’s Olmsted parks and parkways system was created by the renowned landscape architect The pioneering design Olmsted and Vaux prepared for Buffalo consisted of three public grounds: a very large park featuring a naturalistic landscape; a public ceremonial space; and a military drill ground. It doesn’t get any better than that.”District Supervisor, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy Donate; Mobile Audio Tours; Sign up for Updates; Contact; Hit enter to search or ESC to close COVID-19 Alerts, Closures and Updates: Click for more information. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park 5. And every once in a while, I simply stop at one of its inviting spots, under an oak or elsewhere gazing at its landscapes, and ruminate about what is yet to come.”Trustee, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy and son of Joan Bozer, founder of Friends of Olmsted“Thanks to our amazing staff, everything is possible.”Director of Park Operations, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy“I’m getting paid to do what I love to do.

All three grounds were connected by broad “parkways” which excluded all commercial traffic. It’s a magical, marvelous Olmsted landscape.”Executive Director, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy“I have wonderful memories of when my dad would take my sister and me ice skating in Humboldt Park (now MLK Jr. Park).”Spring into Summer Luncheon '15, '16, '17 Co-Chair & MassMutual Financial Group – New York State“My favorite Olmsted landscape?
You might as well be out in the country, even though you are right in the middle of a major urban city.”“There is no better restful and relaxing area in Buffalo than Delaware Park, a place we take for granted.

The Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks and parkways system of Buffalo, New York, is America’s oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways. It’s often a destination in neighborhood walks with my son, to collect horse chestnuts or just to sit in the shade and watch people as they go by.”Deputy Commissioner for Parks and Recreation, City of Buffalo“My daughter and I travel each day down Richmond Avenue on her way to Leonardo DaVinci High School at D’Youville.

Your generous support allows our dedicated team to preserve, protect, restore and maintain the six parks, seven parkways, and eight landscaped circles … all 850 acres. The Olmsted designed portions of the Buffalo park system are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Frederick Law Olmsted and his firm were also involved in a number of Details at One of Buffalo's most treasured cultural assets, this public urban forest is maintained, preserved and restored by the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy. For the first few weeks of school I would quiz her on the names of the circles and parkway that we pass. 1. I introduced my children to Shakespeare on its hill, overlooking the Lake, then later coached soccer in the Meadow for many, many years. As a child I sledded on its hills, listened to the park zoo’s elk bellow during fall football practices in the meadow. Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Gift a Paver at the Siegel Landing Special thanks to The Conservancy is hiring a Bookkeeper/Administrative Assistant (Part-time). Delaware Park and Lincoln Parkway … screams Olmsted!”“When I was four-years old, I got my foot caught in the ‘monkey tree’ at Cazenovia Park. Even today as I walk my dog around the lake I can see snapping turtles, herons and flocks of goldfinches that remind me of the larger reach of nature that sometimes is forgotten in the surrounding streets of the city.”“One of my favorite things is that when you walk around Hoyt Lake, there are several spots where you can’t see anything but trees and water; no power lines, no cell towers, just nature. We’ve decided we both adore Ferry Circle, but we like to think of it as ‘Fairy Circle’ with its fluffy ornamental grasses, happy flowers and imaginative appeal.