Additions to portions of the bike trail within the park along Rapid Creek are on the city docket as well as the master planning underway for areas outside the park. Preliminary designs for trail extensions to SDSM&T and the Central States Fairgrounds will be ready for public meetings some time in July, with a projected early fall decision by the … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
Fat Tire Festival Set for May
Registration opened March 1 for the Black Hills Fat Tire Festival, named one of South Dakota’s “Great Events” of 2010. Friends of Rapid City Parks has again joined other sponsors of the Festival, which draws cyclists from around the country. Organizers have added many new events, races, and programs to the festival. Read more about it on their website. And … Read More
Bike Path extensions on the way
Survey work has begun on three projects to extend Rapid City’s bike trails: one along Rapid Creek at Founders Park, one to connect the bike path with SDSM&T, and one that will take the path around the Central States Fairgrounds.
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 … Read More
Waterfowl Management Plan Offers Options
An ordinance to ban feeding the ducks and geese in Rapid City’s parks will get its first airing Monday night. The ordinance comes at the recommendation of the Urban Wildlife Committee, a group of wildlife experts and local interested volunteers named to figure out possible solutions to the increasing waterfowl populations on Canyon Lake, Meadowbrook Golf Course and Storybook Island. … Read More
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 … Read More
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.
FRCP urges city to stop waterfowl feeding in parks
Dear Mayor and Council Members, To quote the carol: “Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, please to put a penny in an old man’s hat. If you have no penny. . .” why not spend $200,000 you don’t have? In the alternative, we urge you to take action to curb waterfowl populations and feeding in Rapid City’s Parks. … Read More