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Plant a Street Tree!
Keep Philadelphia beautiful and help the environment, plant a street tree. Street trees provide shade and beautify your neighborhood, absorb noise, filter pollution, reduce storm water runoff and improve property values. To request a free tree planted next to your curb, click here to fill out a planting request form.
Trail Permit Tags
Spring is here and it's time for those who enjoy the upper trails of Wissahickon Valley Park or the soft trails of Pennypack Park to register for their annual trail tag. Click here for more information.
Wissahickon Environmental Center Summer Nature Camps
Wissahickon Environmental Center is offering outdoor day camp programs for children ages 6-14. Held in the beautiful Wissahickon Valley, children can attend one week of nature camp from 9am – 3 pm. Space is limited. Registration begins April 1, 2012. For more information and to register, please Click here.
GIS Intern Position
The City of Philadelphia’s Department of Parks & Recreation is seeking academic interns to perform GIS work on several ongoing projects. For more information please Click here.
Free Yard Trees!
The Philadelphia Department of Parks & Recreation's TreePhilly campaign is enabling residents to beautify their homes and blocks, improve their health, reduce their energy costs, and reduce stormwater runoff all in one shot, at no cost. For more information please Click here.
Benjamin Franklin Parkway, M.L. King Drive and Kelly Drive Detours / Closures
Please click here for the schedules of 2012 planned event detours or closures of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, King and Kelly Drives.
Fairmount Park Recycling Center
The Fairmount Park Recycling Center permits commercial businesses to dispose of organic waste and purchase finished products, including screened leaf compost. Residents are permitted to obtain a garbage can worth of material at no cost. For more information please click here.
Press Releases
Please click here for recent and archived Fairmount Park press releases.
Technical problems: fpc.webmaster@phila.gov
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