I first stepped foot here years ago - during the Pokemon Go days! I was amazed at how beautiful and…read moretouching and clean/landscaped it was. It's always playing beautiful songs like America the Beautiful! And well lit! It has the largest flag of our country in NY state. Coming back today, it needs a few updates. Some of the signage is damaged or completely gone. An inappropriate sticker is in the slapped on the Golden Gate Bridge display (why can't people respect other people's property?). Someone's baby doll was left on another display that you are not supposed to be climbing on. It's still an amazing and beautiful place, but could use some updates so it doesn't fall apart completely. As I walk around, I feel gratitude for those who have protected our freedom. I hope one day we get back to remembering "United we stand, divided we fall"

I'm sorry, but I don't see why people love this place. It's tacky. Yeah, one guy used his own money…read moreto build it, but instead of using this money to build it he should have used the money for the actual heroes he claims to honor. Oh, the park is right in front of the family restaurant. How convenient. Here are some details. The music they play constantly is way too loud. It gave me a headache. The music doesn't need to be that loud. The "displays" are incredibly cheesy. Sort of cartoonish. If you actually want to honor our service men and women, you should put a little more effort when creating these displays. It's also close to a very busy roadway. Be careful when entering and exiting the parking lot area.

This is such a nice greenspace right in the middle of the city. They host lots of events here…read moreincluding the Bidwell Farmers Market.

Bidwell Park is a park that's part of the Olmsted Park system in Buffalo. Following it down leads…read moreyou to a few statues and eventually it flows into Delaware Park. It's basically a kept lawn and open space to gather. In the summertime, you'll see people laying out here in blankets, musicians, acroyoga practitioners and a farmer's market that takes place every Saturday. In the winter -- it's pretty dead, aside from all the free residential parking that you can find. During the summertime, the Elmwood Village Association puts together a weekly event on Tuesdays as a community gathering with live music and food. I definitely enjoy Bidwell Park in the warmer weather months. It's a great place to people watch or to get a blanket and curl up in the city, or to walk through it to get to the next park...Delaware Park -- and just keep going until you go through all of the Olmsted Park System!

What we appreciate about this park is that you can take short walk or make a longer walk & visit…read moreReinstein Nature preserve. We went this past weekend and there were quite a few downed trees from the wind earlier. Parking is also amazing here.

A shockingly well maintained park…read more Beautiful trails that go deep in the woods. My family was chased by raccoons once. I went yesterday and multiple people were taking photos of the foliage. And a really nice big playground. They have subtle but cute Christmas lights display when the season comes. And their softball league is run better than MLB. Shout out to the Cheektowaga rec department for this gem.

I walked this from Hertle to riverside park this am. Look for the bird sculptures along the walk…read more Very nice sculptures of the birds that migrate along this route.

Riverwalk is the bicycle path that runs along the Buffalo waterfront from just near Canalside, at…read morethe corner of Lakefront and Erie Street. It continues all the way to Vulcan Street at the border, where the path continues as the same name, maintained by The City of Tonawanda. It is part of both the Erie Canal bike path network as well as the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Network and Niagara Greenway network of bike paths. It's a well designed path, rolling along Buffalo's waterfront with gorgeous views of the lake and the river. It is, however, in need of some serious love: The striping on the path is long faded (It looks like it was originally designed to be a multi-use trail, with a pedestrian lane and two bike lanes.) The path itself has become narrowed over the years, and there are a lot of bumps and potholes. Luckily, there seem to be volunteer people out there that have spraypainted some of the most dangerous areas as warning. It really really needs to have some graffiti removal done, particularly along Unity Island. It links a ton of parks along the Buffalo waterfront, everything from Canalside to LaSalle, Broderick (especially now that the bridge is open again!) to Unity Island, Black Rock Canal Park and then up to Riverside park. There is a link to the Scajaquada Bike Path by the Army Corps of Engineers at Niagara Street and the the entrance to Unity Island Park. The section further up is a little better maintained, and the parts that go through some of the newer parks (such as Black Rock Canal Park) have been recently redone and are quite nice.) It's a great bike path to explore, by bike, roller blade, or just walking. Hopefully with the restoration of the link between Unity Island and downtown with the bridge reopening, the city will give it some much needed TLC.

Great place to be! Did NOT know there was parking allowed in the park by the buildings. We walked…read morethrough the park on the one trail we found. A lot of work had been done just recently, as we saw Tree trunks and pieces moved from one spot to another to clear the trails. We got out to the baseball field then continued walking the trail. Outside the trails through the woods were a LOT of Flickers [woodpecker]. We've never been to any area where we saw so many flickers before on the Trees or ground. At one time there were seven of them on the ground! Be very careful because while we were deep within the woods, apparently I was bit by a wasp. Heard NO sign of wasps and we did NOT venture off the trail, but at one time within the first 20mins within the park, I was bit by something within my pants. Later at home I could see what was later identified as a wasp sting. I heard NO buzzing or anything, but apparently it got into my pant leg as I could feel something inside my trousers. Otherwise WE enjoyed being out in the Nature that is western New York and Pine Woods Park! I WAS disgusted to see that the woods trail and most of the open areas were littered with human filth and trash. Please everyone, YOU are part of the solution AND/or problem!! Please teach your kids to NOT litter! I put my trash while in the outdoors into my right back pocket, and when home or where there's an outdoor trash bin, it gets transferred to that. Also, kids learn from who they are with, or via their home environment, so if everyone around them trashes our parks, streets etc, then they will too. They learn from experiences. Please pick UP your trash or better yet, DO NOT LITTER OUR PARKS! I saw a lot of people walking their pets. I have seen a lot of pet owners at other western New York parks litter disgustingly with their pet poop. Either they leave the poop so YOU can step in it, or they pick it up, then when nobody is around, they throw it in bushes or leave their bag of pet poop in plain sight. IF you are a pet owner and do this, you are a disgusting person who should be fined, jailed and do community service picking up cigarette butts and dog poop off the streets! YOU should have your pet taken away and given to a true animal lover who will respect others, parks and other natural areas, and their pet, and NOT leave their poop out!

My kids and I stopped by for a bit in between running errands in this part of town. It's a small…read morecozy neighborhood park with a somewhat outdated playground under repair, but lots and lots of swings. Plenty of shade. There's a small nature trail. All the restrooms were mysteriously locked even though it's still summer, but there's a couple of port-a-potties. I wouldn't make a special trip, but it's a solid neighborhood park aside from the closed restrooms.

A park named for a famous "Son of Buffalo" - Tim Russert. This is one of two named for him…read moreactually. The other is smaller and next to a library in South Buffalo. This one in West Seneca is larger and has pagodas with some tables, a grill or two, easy parking, a children's jungle gym area and plenty of open land for pick up soccer and other sports. The late Tim Russert was a famous journalist who remained a lifelong fan of the Bills. He mentioned them often in fact. He remained loyal to Buffalo and Buffalo has remained loyal to him. This park is a nice honor for him.

Nicely maintained trails with smaller paths for the adventurous…read more Great views of the river! We only went part of the way but next time will walk all of the way out to the point for some great pics!

Beautiful early morning walk…read more It's at the base of the bridge connecting Grand Island to Niagara Falls. The route is on the Grand Island side. The walk is lovely and along the water most of the way. Well groomed, although they recent storms have resulted in some downed trees/branches blocking the path a little. All easily navigable. Very easy parking. 2/20

On the Buffalo River there is an older park. Its not part of the Olmstead System. Views of the…read moreriver and the silos from here are very nice. Named after Father Conway, who was a WWII chaplain. Father Conway was not a Buffalo native, but he did have his parish here. He attended Niagara University and was ordained in 1934 to the priesthood for the Diocese of Buffalo. He worked in many of the local area churches, including St Rose of Lima and St Brigid. His hobby was sailing Lake Erie in a small sailboat. He was very much appreciated by the blue collar parishioners he tended to. He enlisted in 1942, and eventually found himself on the USS Indianapolis, which was torpedoed. While he survived for three days tending to the other sailors in the water with him, he was one of those lost. About 300 survived and they all told tales about Father Conway going from man to man to preach and encourage him as they treaded water waiting for rescue. Upon the news of his death, locals in Buffalo wanted to do something to remember him. Initially the park was not as well kept up as it is now, but under Mayor Masiello the park got signage and fencing and became a real neighborhood park, which is used by many today. Nice place to have a picnic with the breezes off the water.

I play at the softball fields at Conway park and they could be maintained a lot better than they…read moreare. There are two softball diamonds and whenever there is a rain storm, you can guarantee the games are going to be cancelled because the field don't hold water well at all. The grass is overgrown and the woodsy areas could be much more well kept. Parking at field two is difficult. You either have to ride over the grass or park in the lot behind the field and trek through the tall grass and weeds and cross your fingers that you don't get poison ivy. There also aren't any porta-potties nearby which makes for a difficult situation in the 5th inning after you've consumed three beers and a 16 oz water bottle. What? It's a beer league. Anyways, in addition to having no porta-potties around, there really isn't anything around here. There is one gas station attached to a convenience store that is in rough shape. They have a bathroom, but regardless of whether or not you buy something from the store, they won't let you use it. I have to give Conway Park three stars however, because we have way too much fun when we play at these fields.