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If you’re looking for a unique and scenic location for your next party, meeting, a wedding or other ceremony; consider one of the venues in the Olmsted Parks.

  • Marcy Casino
  • Parkside Logde
  • Cazenovia Casino
  • The Rose Garden
  • Japanese Garden

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Olmsted parks are not difficult to find in Buffalo. We have one of our 6 major parks in virtuallly every neighborhood in the city.

Volunteer

Roll up your sleeves and prepare to get your hands dirty helping the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy in its mission to maintain the historic Olmsted parks in Buffalo. We need help gardening, removing invasive species, and planting trees!

It’s Tree Planting Time in the Olmsted Parks

It’s Tree Planting Time in the Olmsted Parks

 

Volunteers are needed to plant 600 trees this spring throughout Buffalo’s historic Olmsted Park System. As part of the Olmsted Parks Conservancy’s master plan, The Plan for the 21st Century, the Conservancy and volunteers will plant understory, flowering and canopy trees in April and May.  Over the next decade, 10,000 new trees will be planted in Olmsted green spaces.

 

Tree-Care Training Workshop - free, open to all. Learn “who, what, where, when, how & why” to tree planting
Saturday, April 17th
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Parkside Lodge (84 Parkside Ave.,) in Delaware Park

Call 838-1249 ext. 15

Olmsted Community Volunteer Tree Plantings

Saturday, April 24th  
9:00 a.m. - noon
Delaware Park, Riverside Park and Front Park
Call 838-1249 ext.  33 to register


Olmsted Community Volunteer Tree Plantings

Saturday, May 1st  
9:00 a.m. - noon
Cazenovia Park and Martin Luther King, Jr. Park
Call 838-1249 ext.  33 to register



** Volunteers will be managed and supervised by Olmsted staff. Volunteers should come dressed for the weather (work boots & gloves). Volunteers should be in good physical condition. Volunteers will not use any power tools and should not bring any type of power tools. This volunteer activity may be physically demanding. All volunteers must be at least 15 years of age and sign a waiver before they can assist with the plantings. To register, call (716) 838-1249 ext. 33 or visit www.bfloparks.org.

 

Tree Plantings are sponsored by Olmsted ReLeaf, an Urban and Forestry Program Grant from the DEC and Entercom Radio.

 

The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy is a 32-year-old, not-for-profit, independent, community organization that promotes, preserves, restores, enhances, and ensures maintenance of Frederick Law Olmsted-designed parks and parkways in the Greater Buffalo area now and for future generations. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Olmsted system in Buffalo is the first of its kind in the nation designed by America’s greatest landscape architect.

 

More Info:  Joy Testa Cinquino, Olmsted Parks Conservancy 716-838-1249 ext. 17, 716-308-2361

 
 

History
In the late 1800s, visionary citizens brought Olmsted to Buffalo. It was here that Olmsted, inspired by Joseph Ellicott's radial street layout, designed his first system of parks and parkways, and proclaimed Buffalo to be "the best designed city in the country, if not the world." During the 1901 Pan American Exposition, Buffalo was celebrated not only as the City of Light, but the City of Trees.
 
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