Take deeper dive into each part of the system and see information about activities, access, visiting hours, parking, maps, and distinctive landmarks in our historic Olmsted parks and parkway system.
F.T. Proctor Park
At 62 acres, Frederick T. Proctor Park (built 1912-14) is the smaller of the two parks in Utica designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., but it has historically been considered the ” jewel” of the city’s Olmsted park and parkway system.
At 385 acres, it is by far the largest of the parks in Utica’s Olmsted parks and parkway system—fittingly, as it was named for a larger-than-life figure, Utica’s Roscoe Conkling (1829-88).
The Parkway is a 3-mile, tree-lined boulevard with two lanes running east and two running west that are separated largely by a wide grassy median that itself comprises 60 acres of parkland.