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Four Reasons to Love FDR Park

May 13th, 2020

The South Philly community makes FDR park a true gem.


Meet the Belmont Plateau Trails Alliance: Park Friends and Nature Champs!

May 9th, 2020

This post is part of Love Your Park @ Home 2020! Learn more about Love Your Park @ Home here, and Nature Day here.   The...


These volunteers are true friends of Philly’s parks

December 29th, 2019

At the 2019 Party for Parks Holiday Party, Fairmount Park Conservancy and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation recognized select Friends Groups for their efforts over the past 12 months.


In Roxborough-Manayunk, parks band together to keep the neighborhood vibrant and green

August 8th, 2019

Get to know the traveling volunteer group that cleans up a different park in Roxborough-Manayunk every Tuesday.


How Ned Wolf Park went from gas station to garden in Mt. Airy

May 7th, 2019

As part of our ongoing park profile series, we’re highlighting a couple of Philly parks and their Park Friends Groups leading up to Love Your Park Week (May 11-19th!) This week, get to know Ned Wolf Park in Mt. Airy.


Bringing neighbors together in Bardascino Park

April 22nd, 2019

As part of our ongoing park profile series, we’re highlighting a couple of Philly parks and their Park Friends Groups leading up to Love Your Park Week (May 11-19th!) This week, get to know Bardascino Park in the Italian Market neighborhood in South Philly.


Matthias Baldwin Park: A green oasis in a fast-growing neighborhood

April 4th, 2019

Every month learn about a neighborhood park in Philadelphia and its Park Friends Group as part of a new park profile series on the My Philly Park blog. This month: Matthias Baldwin Park in Logan Square.


How Lanier Playground is bringing the community together again

February 21st, 2019

Every month learn about a neighborhood park in Philadelphia and its Park Friends Group as part of a new park profile series on the My Philly Park blog. This month: Lanier Playground in Grays Ferry.


Cianfrani Park: 50 years of transformation in Bella Vista

January 25th, 2019

Every month learn about a neighborhood park in Philadelphia as part of a new park profile series on the My Philly Park blog. First up: Cianfrani Park in Bella Vista.


Carroll Park residents want to put the ‘neighbor’ back in the ‘neighborhood’

October 22nd, 2018

Cheri Harrison has lived down the street from Carroll Park in West Philadelphia for 14 years. Now, she’s on a mission to make the five-acre park the hub of the neighborhood.