Your Trail Discovery Guide is here!
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Ever wondered how to navigate the trails in the Allegheny County Parks? We've got you covered!
The Trail Discovery Guide to the 9 Allegheny County Parks provides trail descriptions and easy-to-follow maps to make venturing into the parks a little easier.
To get you started, the Allegheny County Parks Foundation, in partnership with Allegheny County, selected two popular trails in each of the 9 parks. These 18 trails offer a variety of terrains, elevations, lengths and interesting features to help you select the perfect location for your outing. Each trail and map can be downloaded right from our website.
The guide is designed for hikers who prefer following a narrative description as they conquer the trails. The companion maps are designed to give an easy-to-follow glance of each trail that anyone can follow. It's as easy as picking a park, reviewing the trail descriptions and downloading the information from home. Or access the guide on your mobile device from inside the park. Either way, you'll find this guide is a handy, useful way to enjoy the trail experience.
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation provided the funding for this guide. The Allegheny County Rangers provided the trail descriptions.
Happy hiking!
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Reserve the date!
Twilight Picnic for the Parks
August 20, 2022
Hartwood Acres Park
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The Twilight Picnic for the Parks is starting to twinkle!
Mark your calendars for the region's best summer celebration. Tickets on sale soon for this special evening in the Caren Glotfelty Meadow at Hartwood Acres Park - a night of fun, music, delicious food and drinks with good friends.
The Twilight Picnic assembles regional supporters in an intimate atmosphere under the stars. This sustainable meadow of native plantings is a beautiful backdrop for al fresco style cocktails and elevated picnic fare prepared by big Burrito Catering using the finest local ingredients.
Performing throughout the evening will be The Andrew Hendryx Ensemble with Grammy Award-winning guest cellist Dave Eggar. They're coming from Asheville, NC for a night of joyous, foot-tapping, upbeat music spanning the mountains of Appalachia to Motown.
Hendryx is a critically acclaimed mandolinist and producer. Known for his soaring solos and lyricism, he has been featured in Rolling Stone and collaborated with artists including John Oates of Hall & Oates and singer-songwriter Edie Brickell. Eggar has appeared worldwide as a solo cellist and pianist, performing and recording with The Who, Josh Groban, Coldplay, Beyonce and Pearl Jam.
Watch for ticket notifications soon! Proceeds raised from this signature fundraiser go directly back into your nine Allegheny County Parks.
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Thank you to our growing list of Twilight Picnic for the Park sponsors.
Presenting
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STARGAZER
Hefren-Tillotson, a Baird Company
Hill International
Mascaro Construction
The Pittsburgh Foundation
PARKS FAN
Dentons Cohen & Grigsby
Ernst Conservation Seeds
First National Bank
Sippel Steel Fab
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We would love to add your corporation or organization to this growing list! To discuss sponsorship opportunities, please email Barbara Brewton bbrewton@acparksfoundation.org or call her at 412.606.9692.
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Join us for Eco-Night in South Park
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Join the Parks Foundation as we celebrate Eco-Night in South Park on Saturday, June 4 from 6-8pm. Sponsored by Allegheny County, the event takes place at the Green Parking Solution permeable lot on Brownsville Road at the corner of Corrigan Drive. The Green Parking Solution was once a simple asphalt parking lot. It has been transformed to a green space of rain gardens, bio-retention, boardwalks and 126 parking spaces that improve air and water quality.
This lot is a very sophisticated system that cleans, cools and slows polluted stormwater before it enters nearby Catfish Run. The Parks Foundation partnered with Allegheny County and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection on design for the project. It covers 2.5 acres and can hold 89,000 gallons of stormwater – equivalent to nearly 19 million water bottles. As rain flows through the paver joints into a gravel bed, it is slowly absorbed into the ground. Nearly 100 trees were planted at the site along with perimeter garden beds, two large rain gardens containing native plants among the walkways and benches to give an otherwise ordinary parking lot a naturalistic flair that invites visitors to pause and enjoy the view.
Enjoy free popcorn and snow cones from eKernally Yours Gourmet Popcorn & Sweet Treats during the event.
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Thank you for making our inaugural Park 'til Dark a success!
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Thanks to all our guests, vendors, partners and sponsors who took part in our recent all-day-and-into-the-night extravaganza in South Park. We hope you enjoyed the free recreation and learned something new about birds or the history of our region.
We had so much fun, we're doing it again! Join us October 15 in North Park for FREE activities, recreation and more. Details to follow!
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Thanks to our partners:
Prana-Veda Yoga
Queer Pittsburgh
Allegheny County Park Rangers
Outdoor Afro
Venture Outdoors
Pittsburgh Cricket League
Damon Perrott Photography
Pro Bike + Run
Black Girls Do Bike
Balloon artist Samantha Oeler
Oliver Miller Homestead
South Park Friends
Coach Dave Ultimate Sports Camp
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Thanks to our Park 'til Dark Sponsors:
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Giant Eagle
Green Mountain Energy
Leaf Filter Gutter Protection
Leaf Home Water Solution
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Thanks for another successful Pour at the Park South Park.
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Capping a full day of free fun in the park, the annual Pour at the Park beer and food tasting drew a happy crowd to South Park on a beautiful spring evening. The tastings featured a variety of local breweries and food purveyors.
Thanks to everyone who bought a ticket. Proceeds will be used in projects throughout all nine Allegheny County Parks.
Mark your calendar for the Pour at the Park North Park on October 15.
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The Allegheny County Parks Foundation, in partnership with Allegheny County, began an in-park survey over the Memorial Day weekend to learn what activities visitors enjoy doing when they visit their parks. Information gathered from the summer-long survey will assist the county and the Parks Foundation on programming and to determine where improvements are most needed. This is a repeat survey to one conducted by the Parks Foundation in 2016. Those results determined that the nine Allegheny County Parks get 22 million visits a year.
Interviewers will be in the parks through August, from morning to evening. They will carry letters of authorization, clipboards and wear name tags. They will be located in parking lots, playgrounds, ball courts, trailheads, pools and various other sites where the broadest reach of visitors can be captured. The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete and contains questions about activity preferences, the length of time spent in the parks, frequency of visits, methods of communicating park programming and perceptions of parks. Results are expected in February 2023.
We appreciate your participation if you are approached by a interviewer! Participation is voluntary.
Funding for the survey was provided by the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
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Every Amazon purchase earns the Parks Foundation cash!
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Please select the Allegheny County Parks Foundation on Amazon Smile for all your purchases. It's easy. Just select us for every purchase. Every donation helps your parks!
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Boyce Park | Deer Lakes Park | Harrison Hills Park | Hartwood Acres Park
North Park | Round Hill Park | Settlers Cabin Park | South Park | White Oak Park
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Allegheny County Parks Foundation | 675 Old Frankstown Road | Pittsburgh, PA 15239
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