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Highland Park

Parks Directory of the United States / Urban Parks / Pittsburgh
Address:Highland Ave at Bunker Hill
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Phone:412-665-3632
Fax:412-665-3633
Web: www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/parks/
Size: 475 acres.
Location:East of downtown in Pittsburgh's Highland Park neighborhood. Park office is at the corner of Heberton and Grafton Streets.
Facilities:Picnic shelters, swimming pool, lake, trails, fitness course, playgrounds, sports areas.
Activities:Fishing, swimming, hiking, bicycling, tennis, baseball, basketball, football, soccer, volleyball.
Special Features:Park houses the Pittsburgh Zoo (established in 1898), featuring more than 6,300 animals in natural habitat exhibits, including a tropical rain forest complex.

See other parks in Pennsylvania.
Parks Directory of the United States, 5th Edition. © 2007 by Omnigraphics, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Highland Park

 

a city in the northern USA, in the state of Michigan; a northern suburb of Detroit. Population, 35,000 (1975). Automobile plants are located in Highland Park. The city is the site of the Lawrence Institute of Technology.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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