It’s one of 18 national parks in Massachusetts – but there are no parks with a National Park designation in the state.

Buffalo’s urban parks and park system are truly unique. That said, a park is only as good as the way that it’s maintained.

Designed in the 1930s, the garden still has lots of visitors in the city, along with volunteers who help take care of it.

Since Frederick Law Olmsted designed Franklin Park in 1885, it has been the centerpiece of the Boston park system that became known as our beloved Emerald Necklace. That’s the past. Now there’s a lot ...

When it opened in 2004, Millennium Park was rightly hailed as a new kind of park, and it has proved to be a precursor to a generation of vibrant new urban spaces that include New York’s High ...

And during her time in Boston, she lived near Franklin Park, another Olmsted creation. "I really do feel like all of my lived and professional experiences have led me to this moment," she said.

The power of public open spaces. Urban greenways were the brainchild of Frederick Law Olmsted, the legendary landscape architect who designed New York’s Central Park in 1858. A decade later ...

Frederick Law Olmsted, most famous for designing New York's Central Park, also designed a system of parks for Louisville. Olmsted's Louisville parks were designed to incorporate the city's diverse ...

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy is a community-supported non-profit founded in 1998 to steward and champion the Emerald Necklace, Boston’s largest park system of seven distinct parks designed by ...

When Boston was young, after our revolutionary era, the Shawmut Peninsula looked onto a forested hillscape. Nearly everywhere in sight was Roxbury. The hills held a secluded sylvan valley nearby: ...

The nearly 530-acre (214.48-hectare) Franklin Park, which is also home to the Franklin Park Zoo, is part of the Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace system of parks in the city.