Celebrate Spring in the Allegheny County Parks!
Enjoy these lovely Virginia Bluebells from Harrison Hills Park, courtesy of photographer Dave Brooke. All 9 Allegheny County Parks are coming alive with many varieties of spring ephemerals. Explore them all! They're YOURS!!!
Buy Spring flowers and baskets to support South Park!
Here's a way to use your own garden to support the parks!
The Friends of South Park are sponsoring a Spring Garden Event on Saturday, May 4 from 10-3. There are lots of great baskets and flats to choose from, all from Erich Gumto Greenhouse in Renfrew, one of our region's premiere wholesale nurseries.
BUT, you must pre-order by April 23!
Pre-order your items using the form HERE and they will be waiting for your pickup at the Home Economics Building at the South Park Fairgrounds during the event.
Stick around for interesting speakers and to purchase locally grown perennials, which do not need to be pre-ordered and will be available for sale that day.
Please support this Friends of South Park fundraiser! They do so much to improve South Park - all proceeds will benefit South Park!
PLACE YOUR ORDER BY APRIL 23!!!
Click on the FLOWERS button for all the information you'll need!

TICKETS ON SALE NOW
POUR AT THE PARK SOUTH PARK
FRIDAY, MAY 10
5:30 TO 8:30 PM
BEER, WINE AND SPIRIT TASTINGS
TASTY FOODS FROM REGIONAL CHEFS
EVERYTHING INCLUDED IN TICKET PRICE!
TICKETS RANGE FROM $20 FOR DESIGNATED DRIVERS TO $55.
KIDS 11 AND UNDER FREE WITH ADULT.
CLICK ON TICKET BELOW FOR MORE INFO AND TO PURCHASE TICKETS!
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS!
Planning a shopping trip to REI?
Pick up your spring gear by April 8 at either location and drop the donation coin you'll receive at checkout in the ALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION bucket!
We're competing for funding to improve the Waterfall Trail at Settlers Cabin Park and every vote you enter gets us closer to the goal!
Banish the INVASIVES!!!
J oin the Park Rangers April 27 to restore native plant communities
The Allegheny County Park Rangers have launched a volunteer Park Steward program to help remove invasive species from our nine parks. This is an awesome opportunity to join other park lovers who want to take an active role in protecting the parks from this increasing threat to your parks' healthy ecology, as noted in the Ecological Assessments ACPF has conducted in Boyce, South, Settlers Cabin and Hartwood Acres Parks. Visit our website to read more about the impact these non-native plants are having on those parks.
Sign up for the kick-off at the North Park Ranch House on Saturday, April 27 from 9-noon. Rangers will provide gloves, tools, safety glasses and will have extra water on hand. Wear long pants and closed-toe shoes.
The program is free but registration is recommended. Click HERE!
For more information about the Park Steward program, click HERE!
If it's April, it's time for Chimney Swifts to make their way back to our region. Like many of us, Chimney Swifts like warm weather. They return to find insects and their acrobatic dances in the sky delight those who are able to watch them.
The Allegheny County Parks Foundation, with our partners at the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, installed 100 Chimney Swift habitat towers in the nine Allegheny County Parks to give these helpful birds places to roost.
When they do return to our region, which could be around the third week in April, you might catch a sighting at the chimney of the Harrison Hills Environmental Center and at the mansion's chimney at Hartwood Acres Park. Park visitors reported they were sighted at both locations last year.
If you'd like more information about the towers, click HERE .
If you'd like to be a volunteer Chimney Swift monitor, click HERE .
Visit us in the community!
Garden Landscape Symposium
Visit our table at this must-attend event for avid gardeners. Nurseries large and small bring a vast array of perennials, annuals, trees, bushes, herbs and more to sell. Proceeds benefit the Penn State Master Gardeners and their multiple projects beautifying Allegheny County.
The event is open to the public. There is no admission charge to the plant sale, which takes place at Shady Side Academy on April 27 from 8 am to 4 p.m. There is a charge to attend the lectures. For more information, click HERE!
Say hello at the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour
Stop by as we greet adventure film buffs all weekend long! Tickets are still available for this exciting event, which is Venture Outdoors' annual fundraiser, but they sold out last year! We'll be at the Byham Theater April 5-7. Stop by and pick up a bookmark!
For more information, click HERE!
ALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION
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