City park · Pittsburgh, Allegheny County
Frick Park
Wooded ravines and miles of trails make up the largest of the city's parks, a bequest from industrialist Henry Clay Frick, with an environmental center and a lawn bowling green.
What you will find
- Hiking trails
- Biking
- Playground
Make a day of it
Nearby
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The Frick Pittsburgh
Henry Clay Frick's restored mansion, Clayton, along with a car and carriage museum, an art museum and a greenhouse on landscaped grounds.
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Schenley Park
A big wooded park on the edge of the university district, with Phipps Conservatory, the trails and lake of Panther Hollow, a public golf course, a running track and an ice rink.
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Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Orchids, tropical forest rooms and seasonal flower shows fill a glittering 1893 Victorian glasshouse in Schenley Park, beside a pioneering green building.
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Carnegie Museum of Art
Ancient to contemporary art, a Hall of Architecture filled with plaster casts of great buildings, and the long-running Carnegie International exhibition.
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs posed in lifelike scenes, among them Dippy the Diplodocus and the first Tyrannosaurus rex ever described, plus a dazzling hall of minerals and gems.
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Cathedral of Learning
Rising 42 stories at the heart of the university campus, a Gothic skyscraper with a vaulted stone Commons Room and the Nationality Rooms, classrooms styled after cultures worldwide.
