Thanks to some amazing support from our community, we reached our $16,000 goal for repairing East Parkway Pavilion in only four days! Wagner General Contractors quickly ordered, installed, and painted the replacement flooring, and the pavilion opened back up to visitors in mid-June. We are
[Originally posted April 24, 2013; updated with new content.] Overton Park is full of beautiful old trees. Many specimens in the Old Forest State Natural Area are estimated to be around 200 years old. But it’s not just old trees that are subject to falling
As we wrote in our last post, summer brings a lot of challenges to park maintenance. It seems like there’s always either too much rain or too little, the heat takes its toll on plants and infrastructure, and our list of needed repairs grows as
In Overton Park’s 111 year history we seem to have lost sight of a few very important rules and regulations that help keep our park safe for all. The Overton Park Conservancy wants to do what we can to help usher in a new, safer
