Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Blog

Riverview Park Year in Review | 2025 Perched high above the city, Riverview Park has long been a place to pause, reflect, and reconnect with nature and in 2025, it…

Throughout the year, we’ll proudly celebrate 30 years of restoring, protecting, and reimagining our city’s parks. What began in 1996 as a grassroots effort to save beloved spaces from decades…

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy – 2025 Year-End Recap Parks are the last great unifiers-places where neighbors can come together, regardless of background. Our mission at the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is to…

Exciting improvements are underway in McKinley Park! Our Horticulture and Forestry team has been hard at work installing a 26,000 square foot deer exclosure that will protect a projected 300-400…

Young Naturalists are high school students who want to learn more about nature and love spending time outdoors. They accept the challenge to work hard in conditions that are at…

At the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy (PPC), one thing is clear-we can’t accomplish our work without the help of dedicated volunteers. And often, those volunteers happen to be Pittsburghers who work…

Things are heating up at the Frick Environmental Center’s summer camp! Campers ranging from kindergarten to eighth grade explore the woodlands of Frick Park and foster a connection to nature…

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Naturalist and Mycologist, Stephen Bucklin, recently made a thrilling discovery in Pittsburgh’s backyard. They recorded a species of lichen previously undocumented in the state of Pennsylvania-right here…

At the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, we know that it takes a community to care for our city’s beloved green spaces-and our corporate partners continue to go above and beyond to…