40th Annual City Wide Clean Up Day Needs YOU

Join Friends of Rapid City Parks and dozens of your friends and neighbors in spiffing up public areas in our parks, along Rapid Creek, and on our busiest streets.

The Mayor’s office reports that this year, the 40th annual event—coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day—is drawing volunteers from organizations and groups who have never participated before.

Meet at the corner of Omaha and LaCrosse. We’ll be cleaning an area along the creek South of Omaha Street off Racine Street, shown on this map as areas 5-6, 5-7, 5-18 and 5-19. Bring your gloves, we’ll have trash bags. From noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 24. What better way to celebrate Earth Day?

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Read more | No Comments | April 7th, 2010

Volunteer at the Fat Tire Fest!

As a sponsor of the BH Fat Tire Festival, Friends of Rapid City Parks is looking for volunteers to staff a table and to help out in general with the event.

According to Festival organizers, volunteers are the heart and the soul of this event “and receive perks for helping us pull this anarchy together, all while having one hell of a good time.”  All helpers will get an event t-shirt, free entry into social events and the film festival, and a chance to meet everyone who helps make it happen.

Contact Jerry at info@bhfattirefestival.com to get details and spend a day out in the parks and on the trails.

 

Read more | No Comments | March 13th, 2010

Ad Hoc Green Task Force Seeks Participants

The Mayor’s Sustainable Cities Ad Hoc Task Force for the City of Rapid City will meets the second and fourth Fridays of every month at 8 a.m.  at the conference room of the Parks Division at 2915 Canyon Lake Road (the entrance to Old Storybook Island).  The first session of each month includes time for public comment, and the second monthly meeting is a work session for the task force.

The Task Force is looking for environment professionals, business and industry leaders, sustainability advocates, and other interested citizens to participate in subcommittees that will shape the recommendations of the group on a variety of issues.

Subcommitee topics are  Education/ Awareness, Recycling/ Waste Management, Transportation, Energy Conservation, Natural Assets, Land Use/ Planning, Local Products/ Food, Water.

Additional information and requests to join a subcommittee are on the Mayor’s Office website:

 

Read more | No Comments | February 2nd, 2010

Trail Partners one way to be a friend

As “friends” of Rapid City parks we sometimes ask you to write letters, make calls, show up at a meeting, help at an event.

We’re looking for volunteers who want to help monitor the more than 20 miles of trails in our parkway by becoming “trail partners.” This program of the Rapid City Parks and Recreation Department puts volunteers on the paths on foot, bicycle or park vehicle to promote proper and safe use, monitor the trails for hazards, and foster good stewardship of the parks’ trail system. Friends of Rapid City Parks would form a crew of “partners” who then would receive education and training from parks and rec professionals.  Partners are expected to spend a minimum hours per month patrolling the trails at times, dates and locations of our choosing.

If you are interested, let us know by sending an email with the subject line “trail partners.”  You can contact us by clicking here.

 

Read more | No Comments | December 17th, 2009

Picture this!

We are just starting a photo album of our favorite places in the Rapid City park system. We hope you’ll add your favorite park photos to the site.

 

Read more | No Comments | December 15th, 2009