PHASE 1 OF THE SOUTH PARK ARBORETUM RESTORATION HAS COMMENCED
BOPC commemorated Arbor Day in New York State and Erie County’s Bicentennial Celebration by planting a Mossycup Oak in South Park
IN A RECENT WEDNESDAY WITH OLMSTED, WE WERE THRILLED TO HAVE MARGARET LAPP, SOUTH PARK ARBORETUM CURATOR, SHARE SOME INSIDER NEWS ON THE ARBORETUM RESTORATION!
Learn more by watching this video featuring Margaret and Olmsted’s forestry team! Read More
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2020 has been a trying year. In this new video, we asked park users what they thought about their Buffalo Olmsted Parks. How have YOUR parks impacted you in 2020? Share your stories and photos with us by emailing zhi@bfloparks.org tagging @bfloparks on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter!
Take a virtual bike tour around Buffalo’s historic Olmsted circles!
Do you have a favorite Olmsted landscape?
Take a virtual walk around Cazenovia Park, with sunshine and bird notes.
At 83 acres, significant features of Cazenovia Park include the Crotty Casino (designed by the Buffalo firm of Esenwein & Johnson and completed in 1912) and the Shelter House (built in 1902 and restored in 2016).
Take a virtual walk around Front, Columbus and Prospect Parks. Front Park is one of three original parks included in Olmsted’s initial plan for Buffalo’s park system.
Its chief feature was the semi-circular terrace designed to command a panoramic view of Lake Erie and the opening of the Niagara River. Here, Olmsted remarked, one could observe “a river effect such as can be seen, I believe, nowhere else — a certain quivering of the surface and a rare tone of color, the result of the crowding upward of the lake waters as they enter the deep portal of the Niagara.”
