Hays Woods

The Forest in the City in the Forest

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  • Palisades plan
  • Development status
  • Development Impact

  • Who We Are

Hays Woods is a hidden forest within a metropolitan city's limits.  The next time you drive along East Carson st. notice the lush green hillside.  Many Pittsburgh citzens drive this road regularly, but how many have actually seen the forest?

Hays Woods

Maps

Photos

GreenSpaceCity of Pittsburgh, Hays Woods and the surrounding Greenspace

GreenSpaceCitizens of the surrounding communities have used Hays Woods as a de facto greenspace for over 40 years.

Hays Woods Soils
Hays Woods Soils Map
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Hays Woods Vistas
Hays Woods has some amazing vistas
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1876

Map of Hays Woods in 1876

Thanks to Historic Pittsburgh

Hays Woods Geology ... as well as some amazing geology formations

 

Hays Woods forest Patch
Hays Woods is the closest forest patch to downtown pittsburgh.
  Thanks to the Ecology and Recovey Report.

Hays Woods forest Patch
Electrical Towers in Hays Woods



Hays Woods forest Patch


Urban Context of Hays Woods

trail
The Forest in the City

Hays Woods forest Patch
The Palisades Plan

 

 

 

Hazelwood kids explore Pittsburgh's secret forest, Hays Woods, through the study of ecology and art.

Click here for a photoset


The Hays Woods Project
Contact Us: sage@pennfuture.org or cm9a@andrew.cmu.edu

Studio for Creative Inquiry
Carnegie Mellon University