Once again, the Austin Parks Foundation and SEATAG (SE Austin Trails & Greenways) partnered with the office of Student Life at Austin Community College to host the 7th annual Project Build A Park. Â For the third time, we worked at Country Club Creek Trail in SE Austin inside Guerrero-Colorado River Park to build more of the 1.5 mile trail, remove …
ClifBar Greenotes Barton Creek Cleanup & Concert – Nov 1
Our thanks to ClifBar and REI along with Keep Austin Beautiful for helping us host the ClifBar Greenotes Barton Creek Greenbelt clean-up. Â 95 volunteers turned out to the Zilker Park Polo Fields Picnic Area to sign-in, grab trash bags and then clean-up portions of the Barton Creek greenbelt from a number of trailheads including Zilker, Spyglass, Loop 360, and Twin …
Volunteer Nov 1 to Clean-Up Barton Creek Greenbelt!
GreenNotes Concert and Cleanup, November 1 Join CLIF Bar, Austin Parks Foundation, Sierra Club, Keep Austin Beautiful, REI and Austin-based musician Ben Kweller for a Barton Creek Greenbelt cleanup and concert event from 10 am to 3 pm beginning at Zilker Park Polo Fields Clif Bar will provide the food to keep the energy up, and Ben Kweller will provide …
Shoal Creek and Pease a Little Less Invasive
Between Friday Oct 17 and Sat Oct 18, we had over 60 volunteers come out and help us cut down and peel back a lot of chinaberry trees as well as numerous vines, weeds and other items along a stretch of the Shoal Creek Greenbelt and Pease Park, from roughly Kingsbury St where the hike and bike bridge crosses the …
Lots of Ways to Volunteer in the next few weeks…
We have quite a few volunteer events coming in the next 30 days and we definitely need volunteers and especially, volunteer leaders for our big events on Nov 1 at Barton Creek Greenbelt and Nov 8 at Country Club Creek Trail @ Guerrero-Colorado River Park. Details and Sign-ups are on our volunteer page. Oct 18: 9 am to noon – …
2nd Austin Oyster Adventure Race: Great Fun
The Austin Parks Foundation was the beneficiary for a second year of the Austin Oyster Adventure Race. Team Sage/Team Player Productions of Denver, CO is running a series of six Oyster races in Denver, San Francisco, Nashville, Seattle, Austin and Portland, OR this year and the foundation helped lay out the course, recruit the 50 plus volunteers needed to run …
Red Bud Isle Visitors Lift Their Limbs…
Over the past two weeks, volunteers lead by Nadene Morning as well as American Youthworks E-Corps have been removing more invasive (non-native) trees on Red Bud Isle. As a result, over 95 percent of the invasives have now been removed, but the amount of brush piled up along the trails was huge. Thanks to a few signs encouraging park users …
Hard Working Volunteers: Palm and Mayfield
Today we kicked off the fall volunteer workday season (ok, it certainly doesn’t feel like Fall out there right now) with a small volunteer workday at Palm Park to begin the process of spreading another 10 truckloads of soil (recycled from the Republic Square Park berms, I might add) and then the 8 truckloads of mulch. Â We’re restoring an area …
And A Berm Disappears
Something historic happened today, we removed much of the berm that was surrounding the central Auction Oak. We had recently done some root zone mapping to see if there were roots in the berm and there were only a few, so today, the low stone wall was pulled apart, the dirt in the berm scooped up and hauled over to …
Movie in the Park Sat Aug 30!
One night of the Nintendo DS Summer Movie Series remains – join us in Republic Square in Downtown Austin for 13 Going on 30 – Movie begins at dusk but join us for Nintendo DS demos beforehand!