Parks and recreation in Buffalo, New York

Paris, France. They include the parks, parkways and circles within the Cazenovia Park–South Park System and Delaware Park–Front Park System, both listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Forest Lawn Cemetery to amplify the amount of open land planned.^: 53 With construction of the system finishing in 1876, it is regarded as being the oldest in the country,^[2] although some of his plans were never fully realized. In the twentieth century, the diminishing parks would be afflicted by diseases, highway construction, and weather events such as Lake Storm Aphid in 2006.^[3][1] In 1939, Buffalo's avenues were lined with hundreds of thousands of elm trees, maintained by the city's forestry division. The elms, which made up 60 per cent of the trees, were nearly all wiped out by Dutch elm disease in the 1950s.^[4] From 1974 onwards, efforts were made to increase the tree cover,^[5] and since 2001 the city has maintained an inventory of its urban forest.^[6] The Buffalo Olmsted Park Conservancy, a non-profit organization, was created in 2004 to assist the city with protecting the 850 acres of parkland.^[7] Olmsted's work in Buffalo would inspire similar efforts in cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston.^[1]

marshland with fishing permitted, and is an Important Bird Area.^[11] Also in South Buffalo is the Olmsted-designed Cazenovia and South Parks, the latter home to the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens.^[12] According to the Trust for Public Land, Buffalo's 2020 ParkScore ranking showed high marks in access to parks, with 90% of city residents living within a ten-minute walk of a park. However, the city ranked lower for acreage; 7.6% of city land is devoted to parks, compared to about 15% for Minneapolis.^[13][14]