I actually love this particular section of the park. The part where the pond and the ducks are…read more There's a gazebo with benches and a grill. There's a small splash pad with high streaming water that I sometimes play in with others. Yes, im very much a big kid at heart. Im not impressed with the swing set section but there is one there with a tetter totter across from it. There is a track that circles this section of the park. It's great for short walks or when watching ure steps for exercise. There's much more additional space of the park across the street where they hold football and cheerleading practices as well as games. The back end of the park also holds football games. What I don't like about the park is that it isn't cleaned well or often. I have seen the city parks dept "cleaning" this park on several different occasions. It literally was astounding how they purposely left trash. I said something to them once about how I've seen people come dump their trash there and how it's great we have them to make sure it's clean for park goers. Interestingly enough as I did my steps around the park repeatedly they cleaned it well that day. Go figure.

This used to be called Shilling Park because it was purchased for a shilling from the Brits. Then…read moreit changed its name to Shelley Park because Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein while sitting in this park. Finally it became known as Thriller Park in honour of the highest selling album of all time, released in 1982 by Michael Jackson. Finally, they combined all of those names to make what it is today. Schiller Park is a great place to play soccer, it's a nice field and I have lots of good memories from here. It might be a bit better than Bakos, just down the road, because it's a little bit cleaner. One thing I don't like about it is that the Cheektowaga Police seem to think it's fun to pull people over right next to this park all the time, it's right on the border between Buffalo and Cheektowaga, and it's a very black neighborhood, and every single car they seem to pull over on this street has a black driver. Not very heartwarming to see that kind of profiling going on... plenty of cars with white drivers come down this street too... I've seen about 20 cars with black drivers pulled over here... zero with white drivers. But I digress... it's an excellent place to play and I give it the top rating.

Beautiful wide open area with a million soccer fields of all sizes…read more Ok, a million might be an exaggeration... But there really are a ton of them! The fields are kept up nicely, there is also a basketball court and a playground. Though the playground doesn't have swings which....come on...how do you not have swings? Lol There is a building for bathrooms and snack bar. The bathrooms are open all summer but the snack bar is only open for tournaments. It's a great place to practice soccer by yourself or with a team as there are often so many fields that you don't always have to reserve space.

I've been walking around this soccer park for over a decade now and it hasn't changed much .... But…read morethat isn't exactly a bad thing . It's always clean and well maintained around the almost 1 mile loop . There is a playground , a small basketball court . a creek entrance for fishing etc. and a ton of field space for kids to play soccer . Bathrooms are definitely open during games, it's a gamble whether they are open during other time periods . Dog friendly too . A nice park option when you are not up to some wilderness hiking but wanna get some steps in.

This is a shockingly nice park that Depew continues to invest in…read more There are multiple baseball diamonds. A beautifully clean pool that appears to actually be open majority of the time I visit. There are tennis courts one of which acts as grounds for street hockey. There are also multiple sand volleyball pits one of which is brand new. They even planted new pine trees.

If you could order hits here for certain amounts of money, then it would be Gun-For-Hireman's Park…read more Luckily for all of us, it's not, and you can't. Fireman's Park is a baseball diamond, a pavilion, some greenery, some trees, and a soccer field, in the heart of Depew sandwiched between a bunch of railway lines (or railroad tracks if you're American). I used to play soccer here quite a lot, and was on the wrong end of several ass-whoopings by Depew Village who are an excellent BDSL team that calls this location home. I also scored some goals here, including a hat trick once, so it has good memories for me too. All in all it's a great little park, the grass isn't too bad... it's under-utilized and underappreciated by Depew Locals and could be better than it is, so I'll give it a solid 4 out of 5. Speaking of a solid 4, I have a solid 7 or 8 right here.

The view isn't great from these soccer fields, which is why they call it "illview soccer fields."…read moreIt's part of Hillview School, and the grass is sometimes spotty, a little hilly, and worst of all, if you kick the ball too hard in the wrong direction, it bounces right into a side street, or worse... into Transit Road. The last time I was here was for a soccer game in summer 2014 although I shouldn't have been playing because I was injured. I played here every other summer for the last 10 years or so, and I know it very well since it's one of the closest fields to my house out in Clarence. I've only played about 3 or 4 games here, and I've twice seen the ball kicked into traffic. It could smash a window, cause a crash, and even get someone killed. I worry that one day it might. Having said that, I love all soccer fields and I had some good games here, so I'll average it out to a 3 star.