Parkways / Heritage Landscapes

The earliest parkways were developed to link urban parks. Their role was to shape the growing city by design; adding gracious, tree-lined boulevards for pleasure travel to and from the parks. Heritage Landscapes has worked toward recapturing the park-like character of the parkways of Louisville, Rochester and Buffalo, all designed by the Olmsted firm in the late 19th century. The twentieth century phase of parkway design focused on the automobile, linking cities, suburbs and recreation or heritage sites, along scenic routes. Under pressure of increasing travel speeds and uniform traffic safety standards, these unique, linear corridors can easily become non-descript. Our work on the Colonial Parkway for the National Park Service and on the Taconic and Palisades Parkways for NYS DOT has addressed the history, character, evolution and management of these modern parkways as unique, valued, linear landscape resources that can be adapted to contemporary needs while retaining their original design and as-built character.
	Colonial Parkway Yorktown, Williamsburg & Jamestown

	Taconic State Parkway Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, and Columbia Counties NY

	Palisades Interstate Parkway Rockland County and Orange County, New York

	Lake Washington Boulevard Seattle, Washington