The name is accurate.
If you spend any time on Saw Mill Run Boulevard, you’ve likely driven past the trailhead of the Beechview-Seldom Seen Greenway hundreds of times without noticing it. Near some less-than-photogenic landmarks — most notably a towering igloo that’s used to hold road salt — is the quiet opening to a hidden urban oasis.
Within feet, you’ll be passing under the 120-year-old Seldom Seen Arch, a marvel of brick and echoing water; beyond, the noise of the highway is quickly replaced with birdsong and crunching leaves. If you go uphill, you can scamper up to a former railroad bridge, now covered in an explosion of graffiti; if you proceed along the flat part of the path, you’ll watch birds flit through the trees alongside gently curving pathways…