Frick Park is a 644-acre Pittsburgh park sustained by strong partnerships among the City of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Nine Mile Run Watershed Association, and many volunteers. Valued as a refuge from the noise and bustle of the city, it has the most extensive areas of natural vegetation among Pittsburgh's large Regional Parks because its original plan placed most facilities along the outer edges. Known as Pittsburgh's "Nature Park," its core woods and stream valley have been preserved for natural habitat and trails, with the Frick Environmental Center serving as the gateway to that experience through sustainable structures and gardens of native plants. Features such as the fountain and amphitheater reflect its heritage as a gathering place, while other areas of the park include original acreage across Forbes Avenue, the state's only public Lawn Bowling Greens, the Reynolds Street Gatehouse near Clayton, the Braddock Avenue playground, clay tennis courts, ball fields, the historic Biddle Building, a rain garden, the Blue Slide Playground, meadow vistas from a former golf course, an Off Leash Exercise Area, a view over the Monongahela River Valley, and trails descending through Fern Hollow and reclaimed Nine Mile Run to Duck Hollow and the Monongahela River.
