FREE | SELF-GUIDED | NO TICKETS REQUIRED
HOURS: 10am-4pm, rain or shine. If you see a sign out before 10am, or after 4pm, you’re still welcome.
MAPS: Pick up at nine downtown Buffalo Public Libraries, at the East Side Garden Walk (ESGW) headquarters during the days and hours of the Walk.
HEADQUARTERS:
Martin Luther King, Jr. Park
Near Fillmore & North Parade’s Masten District signPeople’s Park Main Street & Jewett Parkway
The East Side Garden Walk, begun in 2018, encourages visitors and neighbors to walk, drive, or bike Buffalo’s East Side, learning about the creativity of this community. Visitors meet its gracious gardeners, experience its historic neighborhoods and wide-ranging architecture.
The 100+ featured gardens are an eclectic mix of private homes, community gardens—even some urban farms—with participating gardeners ranging from school children helping in outdoor classrooms gardens to senior citizens, and everyone between. The Walk encourages community revitalization and the beautification of the East Side one neighbor at a time. Equally important are the conversations among gardeners and visitors that bridge notions of differences.
Explore Buffalo’s neighborhoods—Masten Park, Willert Park, Emslie, Lovejoy, Emerson, Schiller Park, Grider, Cold Springs, the Fruit Belt, Larkin, Hamlin Park, Kensington, Leroy, Lasalle, and many more.
Volunteer for East Side Garden Walk
Interested in celebrating community creativity? Join us as a volunteer for the East Side Garden Walk!
Thank you to all the gardeners, volunteers, sponsors, and visitors in 2023. Enjoy this video created for you by the East Side Garden Walk and Get Fokus'd Productions.
The ESGW is an event of Gardens Buffalo Niagara. The ESGW also works with other organizations including Grassroots Gardens WNY, The Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission, as well as organizations including None Like You and Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, among others with related missions of gardening, education, and public art. The East Side Garden Walk, through its partnerships, is making a difference in neighborhoods by building on the already strong sense of community. It is also changing the perception of Buffalo’s East Side, helping to enhance community pride, recognition, and investment.
Visitor Information
PARKING
Parking is along city streets and is readily available very near most gardens.
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CO-CHAIRS
Samantha White & Renata Toney
Join East Side Garden Walk in 2025
East Side Garden Walk was excited to have more gardens than ever in 2024. We’d love it if you consider joining over a hundred gardens in 2025.
Sign up for our newsletter at the bottom of this page, or check back here in February 2025 for registration details!
Sponsorship Opportunities
Now in its sixth year, the Walk encourages visitors and neighbors to walk, drive, or bike Buffalo’s East Side, learning about the resilience of this community. Sponsors have to support community building through gardening on the East Side! Supporters like you make this important work possible.
The 2023 Children’s Garden Festival took place on Sunday, October 8 from 2-5pm in Martin Luther King, Jr. Park. The event was co-presented by the Olmsted Parks Conservancy.
