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At 350 acres, Delaware Park was the largest of the three original parks and was a landscape that Olmsted and Vaux called a “country park”. Designed: 1868-1870 by Olmsted & Vaux | Location: Bordered by Delaware, Elmwood & Parkside Avenues, Amherst Street, Nottingham Terrace, Rte. 198 & Rumsey Road.
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The Buffalo Olmsted Park System comprises of 6 parks, 7...
- Specialty Gardens
The Delaware Park Rose Garden was conceived in 1917 and...
- Front Park
Front Park - Delaware Park | Buffalo Olmsted Parks...
- Your Pocket Parks
Frederick Law Olmsted began his work for Buffalo in 1868....
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South Park - Delaware Park | Buffalo Olmsted Parks...
- Parkways
The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, not-for-profit...
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Riverside Park - Delaware Park | Buffalo Olmsted Parks...
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The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, not-for-profit...
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Delaware Park–Front Park System is a historic park system and national historic district in the northern and western sections of Buffalo in Erie County, New York. The park system was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and developed between 1868 and 1876.
- March 30, 1982
- 505.9 acres (204.7 ha)
- Olmsted, Frederick Law; Vaux, Calvert
- Front Park, Porter Ave. to Symphony Cir., N along Richmond Ave., Bidwell Pkwy., Gates Cir. and Delaware Park, Buffalo, New York
Jun 12, 2023 · Delaware Park, in the heart of Buffalo, is the city’s very own Central Park. The crown jewel of Buffalo’s Olmsted Park System, Delaware Park is filled with sights to see, things to do and places to eat. Here are nine suggestions of how to enjoy this great green space, from the Ring Road on the park’s eastern end to along Hoyt Lake on the ...
- Ready, Set, Go: Train for a race. Delaware Park’s 1.8 mile loop is a wildly popular spot for local runners. The loop is part of major summer races like the Corporate Challenge and the Buffalo Marathon.
- Pushups, pull-ups, squats – Get Strong. Push-ups, chin-ups – those were things we did in high school gym class, right? Well, just south of the park’s basketball courts is a small outdoor gym with enough tools for anyone to get in shape.
- Beef up on your history – Visit the Buffalo History Museum. One Museum Court, Buffalo NY, 14216. Take a stroll over to Hoyt Lake, up the stairs, and pay a visit to the Buffalo History Museum – the largest history museum in New York West of Albany.
- 15-Love: Play tennis. Don’t let the fact you don’t understand the scoring system stop you from playing tennis this summer. Delaware Park boasts a number of tennis courts where players of all levels can test their skills with a racket.
Delaware Park is a big park that has a little bit of everything for everyone. For any zoo fan this park offers a good sized zoo that is always full of excitement with a verity of animals and exhibits. Outside the zoo there is something for almost every sport and fitness lover.
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- Parkside and Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, 14214, New York
Enjoy your historic Olmsted Parks with the free self-guided mobile audio tours of Delaware Park’s lake, meadow and Japanese Garden. From the Ivy Bridge to the Zoo Paddock, there are several points of interest to learn from.
The centerpiece of Buffalo’s Olmsted parks and parkways system is the vast grounds originally known simply as “The Park”. Now called Delaware Park, at 350 acres in size it is one of the relatively few true parks Frederick Law Olmsted created, and the only one in the Buffalo system.
