Mellon Park — Attraction in Pittsburgh

This park is one of the East End's best-kept secrets. There are two sections to this park, each one across the street from the other. The City built Mellon Park's sports and family section which runs along Fifth and Penn Avenues and is a great place for families. With lots of green space, there is a large fun-filled playground for kids of all ages. Bring your swimsuit and a towel on hot days for the spray park. Timed water spouts, water drop buckets, the cooling mist machines are a nice way for kids and adults to cool off. They are a great feature for kids of all ages even toddlers. There is a full-service traditional playground, along with softball fields, and basketball courts on the site. Sate-of-the-art tennis courts, including showers all under an air-conditioned bubble. If you want to have a family picnic this is a great place.

Mellon Park section two is the original site of the Mellon family mansion. It is home to both the Scaife and the Marshall mansions, now known as the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. This section of Mellon Park runs along Fifth Avenue, between Shady and Beachwood Boulevard. From the street, this section of Mellon Park is simply a beautiful green hillside behind a historic iron fence. Walking through one of the seven iron-gated entrances, and following one of the many paths to the hilltop, the true grandeur of this City park is unveiled.

This historic section of Mellon Park has several gardens, featuring the historic Walled Garden with its hidden night lights and beautiful water fountain. The Herb and Rose gardens are spectacular and are home to Phipps Garden Center housed at the old Mellon Carriage House. The Scaife mansion houses a wonderful fine art and pottery center. The Marshall mansion is a perfect place to enjoy cultural arts, dance, and folk music, as well as being, a perfect wedding venue.

Following one of the many paths throughout the park, far more pleasures and hidden gems are revealed. So, if you are looking for a friendly, tranquil, relaxing space to enjoy nature, and make new friends, the historic section of...

I lived near here before and it was beautiful all year round. In the summer the fireflies lit the park up. I love the herb garden. It’s tranquil. The bats at night here are wild. I have also seen foxes run through here. For the middle of the city it’s a crazy cool amount of wildlife. I like the one tree with a statue of a face as the base holding the tree. It would be a cute place for a day picnic or just a scenic walk. For being on busy fifth ave it is supremely beautiful. I saw some children’s camps being held over there this summer that looked super cute, and I am also wondering if they might be kids from the Ellis school across the street. I feel like there is so much wildlife concentrated here because of the plant life and large span of land. I see people getting wedding/pregnancy photos here all the time. It is really grand without having to put in any effort. The hills roll in such a storybook way. I would walk my parrot through here and he’d get so excited at all the other birds singing. I wish the shadyside area had more green spaces and I’m very surprised there aren’t that many. Not actually in shadyside. This is great though. It is attached to the creative center behind it that goes up the road towards squirrel hill. I used to live at the intersection of fifth and shady and watching it change through the seasons from my window...

Beautiful place for sunrise viewing, but in major need of signs to identify southern half as a public park: The fact that it is a public park and not private space is unclear from the exterior of the gated part of Mellon Park (the entire large part of Mellon Park that is on the south side of Fifth Avenue is gated, with no sign saying it is part of Mellon Park on any of the entry spaces). The air is very clean on the south side of Mellon Park (which is on a hill that rises above the pollution from the highly-trafficked Fifth Avenue). By contrast, pollution levels on the north side of Mellon Park (north of Fifth Avenue) are high, due to the large amount of gas-powered traffic on roads around it. Many Black children play on the playgrounds and the baseball diamond on the polluted-air north side of the park. Very few Black people enter the (gated and unsigned) South side of Mellon Park, which is where the...