Volunteer as a Park Champion!

Upcoming Volunteer Events

Do it single-handedly, or get a group of friends together, but make the commitment today to help renew Louisville’s unique Olmsted parks! Give one day a year or a few hours each week taking part in a service project and do your part to strengthen and revitalize our community.
Even if you’ve never volunteered before, or you’ve never planted a tree, you can protect the future of Louisville’s Olmsted parks. We can’t do it without your help, so join us as we root out invasive plants, rebuild trails, restore native plants and renew structures in our parks together!

Don’t have a green thumb or don’t like to get dirty?

Volunteer to help in our office with mailings, data entry, and event coordination. Or come out to help us with education and outreach, volunteer at our informational booths at neighborhood festivals!

New Adoption Partners!

Thank you to the CSL Plasma Center for becoming an adopt-a-park partner at Baxter Square. Their recent commitment has provided incredible benefits to the park including mulching, litter pick-up and painting of a picnic shelter. We appreciate their dedication to this historic urban park. Other new adoption partners include U.S. Coast Guard, Cherokee Triangle Neighborhood Association, Portland Promise Center, and Louisville Bicycle Club.

Groups such as area businesses, neighborhood associations, churches, school clubs and teams can make the commitment to preserve and enhance our community’s parks. Participants can adopt a park or an area of a park and take part in regular projects such as painting, trash pick-up, mulching, plantings, invasive plant removal, trail maintenance and other work. Each adoption is tailored to match the interest of the group and the needs of the park area. Groups interested in adopting an Olmsted park can call Sarah Wolff at 502-456-8125.

The Trail Store Rewards Conservancy Volunteers

The Trail Store is rewarding our dedicated park volunteers with a "wooden nickel" discount token worth 25% off one non-sale item. Starting August 1, volunteers will be rewarded with a wooden nickel for their outdoor gear purchases at The Trail Store for every six hours of service in our Olmsted parks. A big thank you to The Trail Store for supporting the Olmsted parks and volunteers. Start earning your discount!

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We would also like to recognize these wonderful groups who have come out to help this year:

Academic Year USA
Assumption High School
Boy Scouts of America
Brown School
Brown-Forman
Catholic Heart Work Camp
Central Park Neighborhood Association
CSL Plasma
Earth Scouts
Facts of Faith Fellowship
Fetzer Cycling Team
General Electric
Girl Scouts of America
Harvey Browne Presbyterian Church
Holy Trinity Elementary Cross Country
Humana, Inc. Toastmasters
King Elementary School
KY Governor’s Scholars Program
KY Mountain Bike Association
Louisville Bicycle Club
Meyzeek Middle School Beta Club
Mountain Bike Depot
Myers Middle School
Noe Middle School Beta Club
Northside Christian Church
Portland Promise Center
Presentation Academy
Red Zone Youth Cycling Team
Sacred Heart Academy
Sojourn Christian Church
Southeast Christian Church
Spalding University
St. Francis High School
St. Francis of Goshen Elementary School
St. Francis of Goshen Middle School
Student Amabassadors
Summit Energy
Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church
Trinity High School
Tyler Park Neighborhood Association
U of L Alpha Phi Omega
U of L Beta Alpha Psi
U of L Biology Graduate Student Association
U of L Delta Epsilon
U of L Evironmental Law and Land Use Society
U of L Field Hockey Team
U of L Golden Key Society
U of L Lambda Chi
U of L School of Medicine
U of L Student Outreach Unite Louisville
U.S. Coast Guard
United Parcel Service
Whitney Young Elementary School
Wild Ones
Youth Build
Youth Self Advocacy Group
YUM-Long John Silvers

We need your help to renew our community’s parks! Individuals, families and groups can get involved and help with projects that will root out invasive plants, rebuild trails, and restore native plants. If you're interested in giving some time in Louisville's Olmsted parks, call (502) 456-8125 or e-mail sarah.wolff@olmstedparks.org.