Just to bug those of us with a mind capable of thinking.
Grass. They are also called weeds as they are growing where they are not supposed to. Often it is called a "parkway strip." On the other hand sometimes a wide road with median strip is called a parkway but you can't park on it but the strip of concrete into my garage is called driveway but I usually park on it.
Mosholu Park is in the Bronx, in New York City. Mosholu Parkway is a tree-lined street in the Bronx. It is not a parkway in the sense of the Hutchinson River Parkway.
Early in the construction of what is now called the Blue Ridge Parkway, the project was called Appalachian Scenic Highway. Work began on September 11, 1935. On June 30, 1936, Congress formally authorized the project as the Blue Ridge Parkway and placed it under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. However, the parkway is not a National Park, but it is a National Scenic Byway and All-American Road, and is the most visited unit in the United States National Park System.
For the same reason that a parkway is called a parkway when you drive on it... Use the link below to the related question"Why do we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway?" for more detail.
Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park was created on 1970-08-01.
People just have a tendency to name things the opposite of what they really are. Think about Iceland and Greenland. Greenland is covered in ice, and Iceland is covered in greenery.
The most-visited US National Park is the Blue Ridge Parkway.
We drive on a parkway and park on a driveway because a parkway is defined a "a broad landscaped thoroughfare" and a driveway is defined as "a private road giving access from a public way to a building on abutting grounds."
This, my friend, is the worlds greatest conundrum... The parkay and the driveway... you see, it happens because the world is backwards and if you park on the parkway, you get rear ended...
Blue Ridge Parkway extends off of Shenandoah National Park.
Blue Ridge Parkway
padden parkway