Join Parks & Trails New York – and thousands of volunteers across the state – in celebrating and enhancing New York’s parks and public lands. I Love My Park Day--the largest single-day volunteer event in NYS--presents a perfect opportunity to clean up our favorite parks and shorelines, plant trees and gardens, restore trails and wildlife habitat, remove invasive species, and work on various site improvement projects--all which help to prepare our iconic state park system and public lands for the start of the season.

How to sign-up for I Love My Park Day

• Click on the red "Register" link on the event listing on the interactive map below

For more details on all events across the state, check out this link.

If you have any questions or concerns while signing up to volunteer, please contact us at ilovemypark@ptny.org

Find a Participating Event

• Use our "Find an Event" map below to see all events happening near you on Saturday, May 4
• Use the grey search bar at the bottom of the map to look for a specific event

I Love My Park Day—organized by Parks & Trails New York and in partnership with the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation—is an annual event celebrating and enhancing New York’s parks, historic sites, greenway trails and other public lands. More than 150 events will take place on Saturday the 4th, providing opportunities for thousands of New Yorkers to clean up their favorite parks and shorelines, plant trees and gardens, restore trails and wildlife habitat, remove invasive species, and work on various site improvement projects—all  to prepare our iconic State Park System and public lands for the start of the busy spring season.