places where you won't be able to wipe the wag off your dog's tail - Pittsburgh PA
The Park
Henry Clay Frick was born in Westmoreland County in 1849 into the Overholt Whiskey Distillery family. At 21, vowing to be a millionaire by the age of 30, he struck out on his own to manufacture coke for the steel industry. He was employing 1,000 workers by his deadline. In 1882, while on his honeymoon in New York City, he met Andrew Carnegie and struck up a partnership that propelled Frick into one of the most influential industrialists of the Gilded Age. Although he spent his later years in New York City, Frick bequeathed 150 acres south of his Point Breeze mansion, Clayton, to the City of Pittsburgh for a public park. He provided a $2 million trust fund to help with long-term maintenance and the money was used to purchase more land, enlarging the park to 600 acres and making Frick Park the largest of the city’s four major parks.
The Walks
Frick Park has something to enthrall any level of canine hiker. Just out for an easy stroll with your dog? The Tranquil Trail travels gently up the spine of the park through Fern Hollow Valley, tracing and crossing the stream for more than one mile. If the wide, crushed gravel and dirt path isn’t paw-friendly enough, grassy shoulders abound. For trail dogs sniffing out more of a challenge, head over to Riverview Hill and the trails that wind up and around the wooded promontory. Or leave the Tranquil Trail and make the short spirited climb up the Biddle Trail or the longer but considerably more scenic pull up the Falls Ravine Trail to Clayton Hill and the Frick Environmental Center. Here your dog can trot the exceedingly agreeable North/South Clayton Loop for just over a mile. This is all shaded hiking for your dog.
Where The Paw Meets The Earth: A park map is available from the Internet and mapboards can be found in the park. With map in hand, you won’t need to worry about the lack of trail markings.
Workout For Your Dog - You can complete a satisfactory canine hike in under an hour or spend several.
Swimming - Swimming holes in the park include Hot Dog Dam and shallower water for splashing can be found along the Falls Ravine Trail.
Restrictions On Dogs - Dogs are welcome to hike in the park and plenty do. Pittsburgh’s first official dog park is in Frick Park off the Tranquil Trail at Hot Dog Dam.
Something Extra
Since 1967, Carl Floyd, Chairman of the Sculpture Department of the Cleveland Institute of Art, has focused on developing large-scale site-specific sculptures. One of his earliest works was a sculpted sundial group that anchors the park’s sculpture garden.
Phone - (412) 682-7275
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Admission Fee - None
Directions - Pittsburgh; Forbes Avenue dissects the park. For the Tranquil Trail, turn south on South Braddock Road to parking on the right beyond the tennis courts. For the Frick Environmental Center, turn onto Beechwood Road.
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