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Center City 8.3 † Washington Square: Center City 8.3 † Eakins Oval: Center City 8 [27] LOVE Park (JFK Plaza) Center City 3.4 † Schuylkill River Park: Center City 3 † Dilworth Park: Center City 2.8 † Franklin's Paine Skatepark: Center City 2.5 [28] Sister Cities Park: Center City 2 † Matthias Baldwin Park: Baldwin Park 2 † Race ...
Fairmount Park is the largest municipal park in Philadelphia and the historic name for a group of parks located throughout the city. [4] [5] Fairmount Park consists of two park sections named East Park and West Park, divided by the Schuylkill River, with the two sections together totalling 2,052 acres (830 ha). [3]
Rittenhouse Square is a public park in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is the center of the eponymous Rittenhouse neighborhood. The square is one of the five original open-space parks planned by William Penn and his surveyor Thomas Holme during the late 17th century.
October 2006 view of LOVE Park, with City Hall in the background. LOVE Park, officially known as John F. Kennedy Plaza, is a public park located in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The park is across from the Philadelphia City Hall and serves as a visual terminus for the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
The logo of Philadelphia Parks & Recreation. Philadelphia Parks & Recreation (PPR) is the municipal department responsible for managing parks, recreation centers, playgrounds, trails, community gardens, and historic properties in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its inventory includes more than 150 parks and 170 recreation centers and playgrounds. [1]
Pennypack Park is a municipal park, part of the Philadelphia Parks & Recreation system located in Northeast Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Established in 1905 by ordinance of the City of Philadelphia, it includes about 1,600 acres (6 km 2) of woodlands, meadows and wetlands.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Park (originally named League Island Park) is a park located along the Delaware River in the southernmost point of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, comprising some 348 acres (1.41 km 2), about 125 acres (0.51 km 2) of buildings, roadways, pathways for walking, landscaped architecture, and a variety of picnic and recreation areas placed within about 77 acres ...
The lawn at Dilworth Park. Dilworth Park opened in September 2014. It is named in honor of Richardson Dilworth, who served as mayor of the city from 1956 to 1962. The current park was designed by KieranTimberlake, Urban Engineers and OLIN [2] and replaced Dilworth Plaza, designed by Vincent Kling in 1972.