Tag: Lakes

  • Lake Elizabeth

    West Park, Pittsburgh

    The lake in West Park on the North Side, from a negative taken in 1999.

  • Highland Park Reservoir in 2001

    Highland Park Reservoir

    In 2002, the Water and Sewer Authority installed a microfiltration system to purify the water while keeping the Highland Park Reservoir open. This picture from 2001 shows the previous water-purification technology.

  • North Park Lake

    Two views of the lake in North Park as fall colors begin to show.

  • Lake Elizabeth in West Park

    A woman feeds geese from the bridge over Lake Elizabeth in West Park. The old city of Allegheny was laid out with green space all the way around the town center—green space that mostly survives (though the southern section of it was long ago sacrificed to the railroad) as some of our most inviting urban parkland.