It's My Park! Day: April 12, 2008

It’s My Park! Day is an annual community service day focused on improvements to Austin’s park system. Individuals and community groups lead projects ranging from simple cleaning and repair to trail building and playground installation.

This year's event was a huge success! Pictures gathered so far can be viewed on our Flickr site. Nearly 1,600 volunteers worked at more than 45 different parks, completing a wide range of projects.

Even More pictures:

Barton Creek Gus Fruh Trail Volunteers
Copperfield Nature Trail
More pictures of Stacy Park/Blunn Creek volunteers

www.flickr.com

Some project highlights

At Convict Hill Quarry Park, a major project was erecting the stone wall on the northeast corner. The group had stones cut from another quarry to make a very attractive wall that will protect the hill on that corner. The concrete base was poured during a previous work day. Remaining stones will be used for the waterfall being built by an Eagle Scout.

Friends of Eilers Park cleared and mulched a large portion of the hillside terrace, pulled weeds from the gravel playground, cleaned debris out of a large drain in the parking lot, weeded around and mulched young trees planted last fall, and planted cactus, plumbago, and agave to beautify a retaining wall.

At Blunn Creek/Little Stacy park, volunteers removed invasive ligustrum, nandina, and English Ivy, and planted natives to restore the creek banks. Look for newly planted inland sea oats, switchgrass, Eve's necklace, Mexican plum, and flame sumac.

It's My Park! Day Sponsors 2008

MFI Foundation