Parks for People Projects - The Trust for Public Land

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Parks for People Projects

Explore some of our parks projects. Choose a state to get started.

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Minneapolis Community Gardens

TPL worked with two local nonprofits—The Sustainable Resources Center and The Green Institute—to permanently protect these gardens. read more »

Monitor Avenue Park

In Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood, we're working with the community to transform a vacant lot surrounded by a chain link fence into a park for children who currently have no safe place to play. read more »

Moore's Bridge Park, Georgia

Moore's Bridge Park & Horace King Historic Site

This 485-acre property buffers 1.4 miles of the Chattahoochee River and served for more than a century as the "gateway" to Carroll County. read more »

Mori Point, CA

Mori Point

In September 2000, with Mori Point on the auction block, TPL assembled funds from private donors, the Pacifica Land Trust, and its own capital to outbid the developers and take the land off the market forever. read more »

Morris Island Lighthouse

Morris Island

Firing some of the first shots of the American Civil War, Citadel cadets launched an attack on the Union supply steamer Star of the West from the shores of Morris Island on January 9, 1861. read more »

Mount Loretto

New York state asked TPL to help conserve a small patch of woods known as Butler Manor on Staten Island's southwestern shore and add the land to the Mount Loretto Unique Area, keeping intact over 600 acres of unbroken and ecologically diverse parkland near New York City's waterfront. read more »

Mount Sentinel

In 2003, The Trust for Public Land protected a 475-acre parcel on the south slope Mount Sentinel, consolidating publicly owned land and creating a new link to the Pattee Canyon Recreation Area. read more »

Mount Vernon and Piscataway Park

The Trust for Public Land has protected a total of 232 acres that have been added to 4,000-acre Piscataway Park, part of the Mount Vernon Estate viewshed. read more »

Mount Vernon's View

Each year, more than one million people visit George Washington's historic Mount Vernon Estate, which he acquired in 1754 in large part for its superb view across the Potomac River into Maryland. read more »

Murphy Crossing

TPL preserved over 8 acres in the Murphy Crossing area for the Atlanta Beltline project. read more »