• Kellogg Park in Los Angeles, CA.
    Annie Bang

    #SaveLWCF to help cities reach green space goals

    Everyone deserves a park within a 10-minute walk. See how the Land and Water Conservation Fund is helping cities build parks where they're needed most. 

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  • Men on horses, Sky Island Ranches - El Coronado Ranch in Southeastern Arizona, Nov. 11, 2014. Pictured: Jesse Hoge, Kevin St. Clair. 2014, AZ, Sky Island Grasslands, Working Lands, Wilcox, La Cienega Ranch, Animals/Wildlife|Mountains|Recreation|Lake|Rural/Agriculture|, Chris Hinkle
    Chris Hinkle

    Restored Arizona ranch is where the wild things are

    “The cattle operation is important, but it’s just one aspect of my responsibility to this land."

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  • Participatory design workshop for our boulder in Montbello Park on January 28, 2018. The workshop took place at the American Mountaineering Center (710 10th St, Golden, CO 80401) with The North Face, ELK, Brown Girls who Climb, Brothers of Climbing, ID Sculpture and others.
    Lorenzo Dawkins

    New climbers find a foothold in neighborhood parks

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  • Cyclists in matching outfits ride on a country road
    Remember the Removal Bike Ride

    A ride to remember: Cherokee cyclists trace the Trail of Tears

    50 years ago, Congress created the National Trails System. Today, we're celebrating the trails that keep us connected to our shared heritage. 

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October 16, 2018

Election Day is coming. Will you vote YES for parks and open space?

The 2016 election changed the conversation about public lands in America, ushering in an administration that would soon roll back ...
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October 10, 2018

Falling with style, and other life lessons from a neighborhood skate park

The first trick any skateboarder has to master is learning how to fall. “Skaters have to know how to handle a situation if you’re about to ...
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October 8, 2018

Zion National Park is at risk of development. We’re working to protect it.

In the early 1860s, a handful of Mormon pioneers in Utah settled near the mouth of a deep, dark canyon carved by the Virgin River. The ...
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October 4, 2018

#SaveLWCF to help cities reach green space goals

It’s been a promising week for public lands on Capitol Hill: on Tuesday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill ...
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A woman holds a basket of cherries
September 26, 2018

Farming community celebrates harvest, with a cherry on top

For farm workers in eastern Washington, the start of fall means the end of the cherry season—and the conclusion of a long, hot summer ...
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September 13, 2018

#SaveLWCF to protect threatened wilderness gateways like this Sierra Nevada gem

Desolation Wilderness in eastern California is one of the most visited wilderness areas in the country. It’s easy to see why: a big, rugged ...
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August 31, 2018

Restored Arizona ranch is where the wild things are

When Josiah Austin bought Cienega Ranch 25 years ago, it was in rough shape. The 19,000-acre spread on the Arizona-Mexico border takes its ...
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August 22, 2018

Here’s the dirt on park trends: community gardens are growing

Community gardens in the U.S. are growing faster than ever. The number of garden plots in city parks has increased 44% since we started ...
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August 14, 2018

There’s a lot going on in Washington: keep your eye on these three public lands issues

Update, September 18: Last week, the House Committee on Natural Resources approved a bill that would permanently reauthorize the Land and ...
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Time lapse of a meteor shower
August 7, 2018

Four “dark sky” parks perfect for the Perseids

The Perseid meteor shower in mid-August is among the most anticipated astronomical events of the year. During its peak, skywatchers can ...
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Cyclists in matching outfits ride on a country road
August 3, 2018

A ride to remember: Cherokee cyclists trace the Trail of Tears

When Will Chavez was in school in Oklahoma in the 1970s and 80s, his history textbooks barely mentioned the Trail of Tears. He learned that ...
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July 20, 2018

New climbers find a foothold in neighborhood parks

It’s not easy to get into rock climbing. Starting out means building strength, mastering knots and gear, and—for some of us, anyway!— ...
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A man in a wheelchair on a high mountain trail
July 11, 2018

Whatever the trail throws at him, “4-Wheel Bob” pushes through

To reach Kearsarge Pass in the southern Sierra Nevada, you’ll need to ascend 2,600 feet in 11 miles, over big boulders and through loose ...
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Free the Beaches
July 2, 2018

When a fight to ‘free the beaches’ rippled beyond the coast

The most well-known scenes from the civil rights movement unfolded on buses and in churches, at schools and polling stations, on city ...
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Silhouettes of people look at the night sky
June 28, 2018

7 tips for city stargazing from Chicago’s park astronomer

Astronomer Joe Guzman wants to make one point clear—even if your view of the stars isn’t. “It’s a misconception that living in the big city ...
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A train platform at the Appalachian Trail
June 19, 2018

New York commuters’ next stop: the Appalachian Trail

On weekdays New York City’s commuter trains are all business, shuttling briefcase-toting commuters between Manhattan and the suburbs. But ...
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Sunset in the Columbia River Gorge
June 14, 2018

Once nearly lost to sprawl, the Columbia River Gorge remains a timeless escape

Summer is the high season in the Columbia River Gorge, backyard playground for millions of people in the Pacific Northwest. When spring ...
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June 8, 2018

Happy birthday to a monumental public lands law

On this day in 1906 Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act, granting the president the authority to protect outstanding natural, ...
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May 31, 2018

California voters: here’s what people are saying about Prop 68

UPDATE: California voters pass Prop 68! “Pretty much anybody at this point can ...
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May 22, 2018

We ranked America’s park systems. And the winner is …

We admit it: we’re park nerds here at The Trust for Public Land. So we’re excited to release this year’s ParkScore® index, our annual ...
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A woman holds an umbrella
May 15, 2018

How New Orleans nuns joined the fight against climate change

Since 1855, the Sisters of St. Joseph lived and served in the heart of a New Orleans neighborhood called Gentilly, their congregation based ...
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May 8, 2018

How to green your city: advice from real people behind great parks

Behind every spruced-up playground, every picnic-bench lunch spot, and every mile of greenway are dedicated people who put their time, ...
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May 1, 2018

Putting big data to work for parks in your city

Since our founding, The Trust for Public Land has focused on bringing parks to the neighborhoods that need them most. But today we’re ...
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Magazine cover with image of two people crossing a forest bridge
April 29, 2018

Conservation advocates, the latest issue of Land&People magazine is for you

What happens when people like you stand up for the places they care about? That’s the question we're asking in the latest issue of ...
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April 24, 2018

For a Philadelphia neighborhood, playgrounds make “a world of difference”

Maria Gonzalez remembers what Philadelphia’s Jose Manuel Collazo Playground used to look like. “The equipment was old and vandalized. You ...
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