Fairmount Park

Fairmount Park

Address

4231 North Concourse Drive

Philadelphia, PA 19131 

Phone

215-683-0200

Area

Neighborhood

Web Page

http://www.fairmountpark.org/

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Parks Type

Park

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Description

From Fairmountpark.org: "Fairmount Park is Philadelphia's Park System. With over 9,200 acres, it claims 10% of the land in Philadelphia (City and County). It has been called "one of the largest urban parks in the country."

Fairmount Park is comprised of 63 regional and neighborhood parks. The larger of these parks are: East and West Parks, Franklin D. Roosevelt Park, Pennypack Park, Poquessing Park, Tacony Creek Park and Wissahickon Valley Park.

Center, Franklin, Logan, Rittenhouse and Washington Squares, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, JFK Plaza (a.k.a. Love Park) and the Isaac D. Levy Park (Race and 17th Streets) are also part of Fairmount Park.

While New York's Central Park is 843 acres Fairmount Park encompasses 9,200 acres of parks and trails."