PHOTOS: Take a stroll through the rolling hills at picturesque park
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Hills and Dales Park is a lush urban forest, opened in 1907 on land owned by NCR founder John H. Patterson. The Olmsted Brothers, a prominent landscape architecture firm consisting of John Charles & Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. designed Hills & Dales. Their father, world renown landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux designed New York City’s Central Park in 1857 and 1858. Even though the park was outside of Dayton’s city limits (present day Kettering & Oakwood), the land was deeded to the City of Dayton by Patterson in 1918. Fiver Rivers MetroParks began operating and maintaining the park in 1999. Today, it’s easy to get lost in the many things to do at Hills & Dales MetroPark. TOM GILLIAM / CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER