Our organizational vision is to bring together ideas, leadership and resources to make the parks more sustainable and enjoyable for all. When we are thinking about the parks being enjoyable for all we imagine a diverse array of people coming together for enjoyment, peace, exercise...
From all of us at the Allegheny County Parks Foundation, thank you to everyone who supported our work to improve, conserve and preserve the 9 Allegheny County Parks in 2022. We are so grateful to Allegheny County for being our partner in all this work,...
The board of directors of the Allegheny County Parks Foundation has announced Joey-Linn Ulrich as the new executive director of the Foundation after a year-long executive director search following the retirement announcement of Caren Glotfelty in June of 2021. The Parks Foundation raises public and private...
The Parks Foundation is excited that the first phase of the restoration of a beloved North Park attraction – the Observation Tower – is beginning. Once complete, this historic site is expected to reopen to the public after 30 years. Designed in 1936 as a water...
Welcome to the Allegheny County Parks Foundation’s Trail Discovery Guide. Here’s your quick, easy-to-follow snapshot of featured trails in the 9 Allegheny County Parks. Download the free Allegheny County Parks Trails app available at popular app stores for the comprehensive mapping of all the trails but use...
Construction safety requirements have limited the public’s access to visit the Mansion side of Hartwood Acres but that’s a good thing! It means that progress is being made on improvements to the exciting project undertaken by the Parks Foundation in partnership with Allegheny County. Pictured is...
Dee Briggs is a Wilkinsburg-based sculptor with a national reputation. Yet she has never been commissioned to create an artwork for a local outdoor public project. Until now. The Sculpture Garden at Hartwood Acres Park, a project of the Allegheny County Parks Foundation, in partnership with Allegheny...
It is with great appreciation for all that she has done in leading the Allegheny County Parks Foundation that we announce the retirement of our Executive Director, Caren Glotfelty, later this year. Since Caren joined the Allegheny County Parks Foundation in 2014, she has stewarded...
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County and the Allegheny County Parks Foundation celebrated the start of the next phase of the Sculpture Garden at Hartwood Acres with a ceremonial groundbreaking at the park this morning. County Executive Rich Fitzgerald was joined by Parks Foundation Board Chair Chip...
Caren Glotfelty, executive director of the Allegheny County Parks Foundation and longtime Pennsylvania environmental leader in academia, government and non-profits, is honored by PennFuture with a 2020 Women in Conservation Lifetime Achievement Award. Glotfelty has devoted her career to public service, at Pennsylvania State University where...