2023 Earth Day Events
Earth Day is on Saturday, April 22! Join us to make our local parks cleaner, healthier, and more beautiful. A lineup of DPC Earth Day events is below:
SATURDAY, APRIL 22
Chandler Park Conservancy
9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
12600 Chandler Park Dr., Detroit
Meet at the Chandler Park Comfort Station
Detroit Riverfront Conservancy
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dequindre Cut Greenway
Gloves, trash bags and a limited number of pickers and rakes will be available
Friends of Rouge Park
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Meet at the Buffalo Soldier Farms at the intersection of Joy Rd. and Lahser
FORP will be giving away free trees in three-gallon pots
Clark Park Coalition
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Meet at the Clark Park parking lot
Sidewalk Detroit
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Meet at Brightmoor Artisans Collective (BAC), 22735 Fenkell Ave., Detroit
Wear boots and bring gloves and water bottles to refill
Belle Isle Conservancy
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Outside the Belle Isle Aquarium, 3 Inselruhe Ave., Detroit
Trash bags (made of recycled ocean plastic pollution) and gloves will be provided at check-in
Volunteers encouraged to return collected litter to the Belle Isle Aquarium to be weighed to document the impact made on Belle Isle and along the Detroit River
SUNDAY, APRIL 23
Cleanup: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Trash pick-up, weeding, sweeping, raking and clearing
Meet at Palmer Park Community Building, 1121 Merrill Plaisance St., Detroit
Gloves, trash bags, tools, hand sanitizer and light refreshments will be provided.
Old Growth Forest Ceremony: 12 p.m.
Palmer Park’s Witherell Woods will be inducted into the Old Growth Forest Network.
Aziza Fairy Forest Trash & Treasure Hunt: 12 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Bring the kids to search for the treasures: the tiny, invisible, magical Aziza Fairies from Africa and their hand-painted doors that will hang from branches throughout the forest trails. Along the way, families are encouraged to pick up trash to leave the woods sparkling clean.
SATURDAY, APRIL 29
Rain Barrels on the Riverfront
9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Hands-on workshop to build and paint rain barrels
Gabriel Richard Park, 7130 E Jefferson, Detroit
Free event, rain barrels available for the discounted price of $75.
