Join the Community Action Team (CAT) to clean-up Bellevue Hill Park!
Bellevue Hill Park is located near campus at the southern end of Ohio Ave (2191 Ohio Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45219). Bellevue Park is a lovely neighborhood park tucked away in Clifton Heights. With a playground, paved walking path, and gorgeous view of downtown Cincinnati and the Ohio River, this park has a little fun for everyone.
The park can use a little clean up! Volunteers are needed to help make the Bellevue look its best.
Here's what to expect:
- Meet at the park Pavilion (HERE) at 11:00a
- We will clean up litter.
- We will enjoy a beautiful setting.
- We will have a great time while benefitting our community!
Here's how to prepare:
- Dress for the weather
- All tools and materials provided
- Consider bringing a water bottle and a snack
- Gloves Recommended
- Close Toed shoes required
The park’s most impressive feature is a pavilion designed by architect R. Carl Freund in 1955 to serve as an outdoor dancing venue. The pavilion is a wonderful example of organic architecture and features a cantilever roof, a bandstand, and three pergolas that form the pavilion’s signature concrete canopy.
The area now known as Bellevue Park was once a part of The Cincinnati-Clifton Incline Plane, or better known as the Bellevue Incline. The incline once connected Elm Street in Over-the-Rhine to Ohio Avenue in Clifton Heights. It was touted as “the only direct route to Burnet Woods Park, Zoological Garden, and Clifton.” There were two piers that formed the bridge of the Bellevue Incline over Clifton Avenue. One stone pier still stands near the sidewalk on Clifton Avenue, halfway between the park and the bottom of the hill. Its twin, which stood across the street, is long gone. Steps on Elm Street used to run adjacent to the incline where they ended at McMicken Ave. and Clifton Ave., and the incline bridged Clifton Avenue to its summit on Ohio Ave. For many years, the Bellevue House stood at the top of the incline, at the end of Ohio Ave., and was a popular destination for dancing and leisure. The ornate resort perched on the edge of the hill had a 400-foot-high rotunda, a wrap-around veranda and a crow’s nest view of the city. It is memorialized today with a small bronze plaque and a lovely patch of flowers.
If you are not a Student, faculty member, or can not sign up for any reason.
Please Contact - mill3jb@mail.uc.edu
Alternative ways to sign up can be provided.
