MADISON, Wis. — Madison Parks is looking for 900 volunteers to help clean up its parks in honor of Earth Day on Saturday, April 26.

What You Need To Know

  • Madison Parks is seeking 900 volunteers to help clean 60 parks on April 26 from 10 a.m. to noon

  • Volunteers must choose a park and register in advance

  • The city has held the event for almost 30 years

Madison Parks has held its Earth Day Challenge for almost three decades and is the city’s largest park cleanup project. This year, at least 60 of the city’s parks are participating.

While the event is open to people of all ages, Madison Parks asks that anyone 14-years-old or older register and choose a park in advance. The event runs from 10 a.m. to noon.

Volunteers will help with picking up trash, raking leaves, removing sticks and weeding. Madison Parks will supply gloves and garbage bags to all of the parks and tools like trash-pickers and rakes to some parks depending on how many people register.

Earth Day, now nearly 55-years-old, has roots in Wisconsin. It was founded in 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson from Clear Lake, Wisconsin. He was a life-long advocate of environmental conservation, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for this work in 1995.

To register for Madison's Earth Day Challenge and see the full list of participating parks, click here.

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