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A pleasure drive should extend from one end of this valley to the other. The route of this drive has not been studied. At the northern end, however, there is no apparent obstacle to reaching any of the important thoroughfares, such as Penn Avenue or Forbes Street. At the other end there is a good chance to extend a parkway down the river as a riverside drive,* connecting at the Glenwood bridge with a proposed boulevard thoroughfare to the down town district.** This would furthermore be a desirable link in a circumferential parkway system which it is not unlikely will some day extend southward from the Glenwood bridge, and ultimately connect with the Sawmill Run parkway above proposed. (Section 7 above.)

9. Squaw Run Park. -- Northeast of Aspinwall the valley of Squaw Run with its tributary, Stonycamp Run, would be ideal for park use. It has great beauty and variety of landscape. It has fields for playing as well as woods and a brook. It is secluded and by its wooded banks can always be kept so, even when the higher land about it is commercially developed. It is none too accessible at present, but it is in a clean and beautiful region, well adapted, topographically, for residential use, and such development will inevitably follow the improvement of transportation facilities to the business districts of Pittsburgh. The park will then supply the local needs of the surrounding communities, and, furthermore, it will be easily reached from many parts of the city. A parkway thoroughfare should extend up the valley.***

10. Guyasuta Park. -- Just west of Aspinwall is the valley of Guyasuta Run, a beautiful wooded ravine well suited to give holiday enjoyment to the people. It is already used extensively for this purpose, and it should be saved for the people for all time.

11. Allegheny River Parkway. -- A riverside thoroughfare is described on page 79 (Part II, Section 61), running from the Sharpsburg bridge up the Allegheny River to Hoboken or Montrose. This should certainly be treated as a parkway, for opportunities to take advantage of the river in this way for public enjoyment are rare in Pittsburgh. Connections should be made into the Guyasuta Run and Squaw Run valleys.

12. Beechwood Boulevard. -- From Highland Park to Frankstown Avenue, Beechwood Boulevard follows the bottom of a

* Part II, Section 32, p. 70.

** Part II, Section 14, p. 62.

*** Part II, Section 63, p. 79.

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Original document: Frederick Law Olmsted, 1910