Adopt a Park

Adopt a Park, or AAP, is a volunteer community service program that assists with the cleaning and beautification of parks, trails, and open space areas.  To learn more, please click on the link below:

Adopt-A-Park Application/Informtion

Who can participate:

The program is open to community groups, organizations, church groups, schools, families, and individuals.

What is the Adopt a Park program about:

• The program provides volunteers an opportunity to assist the City Parks Department in keeping our public spaces clean, safe, and aesthetically pleasing.
• Participants are responsible for cleaning their adopted site of trash, downed tree limbs, and other debris.
• Participant commitment to clean adopted parks, trails, or open spaces a minimum of once per month from April to October.
• Participants may also undertake other beautification efforts in their adopted areas upon approval by the Parks Superintendent.
• Park, trail, open space sites are assigned on a first come, first serve, basis.

The City's role in Adopt a Park:

• Provides trash bags for cleanup
• Coordinates pickup of limbs, trash, and other debris
• Provides materials required for approved improvements

Why be involved:

Litter is unsightly and very expensive to remove.  It destroys the natural aesthetics of our parks, trails, lakes, and open space areas.  A litter free community is aesthetically pleasing to visitors and prospective new citizens and businesses by portraying a concerned and caring community image.  Adopting a park, trail, or open space area provides volunteers with a sense of ownership and community pride.

How to get involved:

Please contact Brad Dushaw, the City of Waseca Parks Superintendent, at 507-835-9727 to discuss your interest in Adopt a Park or obtain an AAP agreement form at City Hall located at 508 South State Street in Waseca.