Shoshone Park — Attraction in Buffalo

If you’re a parent in North Buffalo—especially one with a kid in baseball—you’ve almost certainly logged countless hours at Shoshone Park. Tucked at the border of Buffalo and Kenmore, this isn’t just a neighborhood park—it’s a seasonal hub of community, sportsmanship, and memory-making. Most families know it simply as “the ballfields”, a default summer evening destination.

Shoshone Park is where local youth baseball thrives. Whether your child is in t-ball or playing a little more competitively, odds are good they’ve rounded the bases on one of the half-dozen fields here. It’s not uncommon to see multiple games going on simultaneously, with parents stretched out in folding chairs, volunteers running the snack shack, and coaches giving everything they’ve got—even when it’s 87 degrees and humid. You’ll hear the crack of the bat, the roar of kids chasing foul balls, and maybe the occasional argument over a close play at home.

But the park is more than just baseball.

Behind the diamonds, you’ll find a surprisingly peaceful and well-connected entrance to the Rails-to-Trails bike path, which connects through Tonawanda and links into a broader network of trails that can loop around much of the city. Personally, I often launch my city ride right here—there’s something refreshing about starting in a space so full of energy and neighborhood history before heading into the greenery of the bike path.

Other features of Shoshone Park include:

• A playground with somewhat dated equipment but well-maintained and fenced in—a huge plus for parents of younger kids.

• Public restrooms—which, while utilitarian, are cleaner than you’d expect for a neighborhood park and open during peak season.

• A community pool was located here but has recently been replaced with the buildout of a new common center which is still under construction as of 5-18-2025.

• Grassy open areas for pick-up soccer, frisbee, or simply letting kids run loose while older siblings play ball.

• Benches and shaded trees that make spectating a little more bearable during long games.

Parking is convenient, but on game nights it fills up quickly—especially during Little League tournaments. Many locals walk or bike in if they live nearby, and you’ll often see strollers lined up along the fence or kids riding scooters along the paved walkways.

If you’re looking for a true taste of North Buffalo community life, this is it. There’s a pride here—visible in the parents volunteering their time, in the coaches who show up night after night, and in the kids who learn more than just baseball. They learn teamwork, resilience, and how it feels to hear the crowd cheer when they finally get...

Im not sure if my reviews still show up, ever since I was critical of a couple of businesses it looked like I got flagged as a spammer. Anyways about the park, the street hockey area is cool, we had nothing like that anywhere in WNY in the 1990s. The surface is too rough for regulation roller hockey pucks so you'll probably want to use a ball, you can practice shooting with pucks like that but they won't stay flat while stick handling which is frustrating and ultimately a poor use of your time since pucks don't behave that way on ice or sport court. The fences behind the nets aren't really high enough for when you hit the crossbar and I lost a couple of $15 pucks as a result. It's also fence and not boards along the sides so if you still insist on using pucks they can get stuck there so you had better just use a ball. There was some broken glass on the surface but it is a city park and it was still April. Other patrons were gracious in sharing space, I saw some teens or young people playing soccer in the hockey area who deferred to me when I put my skates on, at least one family and assorted joggers,...

This use to be a really nice park but I try to avoid it now. It hasn't been kept up really well and a lot of rift raft come to hang out. Kids run around unsupervised acting crazy. While playing there with my kids I witnessed another child urinating down the slide while his father was at the park bench doing something else. The one good thing about the park that's left is the baseball league. Other than that I no longer let my...