Best parks and nature in Pittsburgh (US)

West End Overlook Park is most popular around 11 AM on Tuesdays. Visitors usually stay up to 45 min here. It's most quiet on Mondays.

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Riverview Park is most popular around 1 PM on Wednesdays. Visitors usually stay up to 1 hour here. It's most quiet on Saturdays.

Nestled between Perrysville Avenue, Woods Run and Marshall Avenue, the 259-acre park is known for its wooded trails and dramatically steep hillsides. The park’s extensive network of trails invites hikers, joggers, and the occasional horseback rider into the woods. The park is also home to the landmark Allegheny Observatory, a space-themed playground, a visitor’s center, a swimming pool and activities building, the natural beauty of the Mairdale watershed, and the popular two-mile Riverview Loop.

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Dormont Park is most popular around 5 PM on Mondays. Visitors usually stay up to 1 hour here. It's most quiet on Wednesdays.

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Mellon Square is most popular around 3 PM on Wednesdays. Visitors usually stay up to 2 hours here. It's most quiet on Sundays.

Covering 1.37 acres, Mellon Square's significant landscape and Modernist design has brought liveliness and beauty to downtown Pittsburgh for almost 60 years. The park remained a vital spot for downtown’s workforce and an increasing number of residents, but began to show signs of deterioration around the turn of the 20th century.

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Mellon Park is most popular around 11 AM on Saturdays. Visitors usually stay up to 3 hours here. It's most quiet on Wednesdays.

Mellon Park was the original estate of Richard Beatty Mellon, whose 60-room mansion was the largest house in Pittsburgh. In 1929, he chose landscape architects Vitale and Geiffert -- premier design firm of the Country House Era -- to develop the Walled Garden of his estate grounds. The property originally had been laid out in 1912 by noted Pittsburgh architects Alden and Harlow with subsequent work by the renowned Olmsted Brothers firm of Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Millvale Riverfront Park is most popular around 5 PM on Thursdays. It's most quiet on Tuesdays.

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