Volunteers Needed for Madison Parks Earth Day Challenge April 25th

Celebrate Earth Day with your neighbors and friends by volunteering to clean up your local park! Join this community-wide volunteer effort to help make a difference. Accept the Earth Day Challenge with Madison Parks! Madison Parks is seeking 900 volunteers at 60+ parks, located throughout the city to assist with trash pickup, raking, trail clearing, and invasive plant removal. Madison Parks will supply gloves, garbage bags and rakes for registered volunteers. Supplies at each park will be based on the number of volunteers registered. 

Register to volunteer here!

Image credit: Madison Parks

When: Saturday, April 25, 2026 from 10:00am to 12:00pm
Where: Parks throughout the city 

Here are the event registration links for the participating parks in District 3. 

• Galaxy Park cleanup registration, 9 volunteer spots remaining when I last checked
• Hiestand Park cleanup registration, 13 volunteer spots remaining
• McGinnis Park cleanup registration, 10 volunteer spots remaining
• North Star Park cleanup registration, 15 volunteer spots remaining

Image credit: Genevieve Carter, Hiestand Park Neighborhood Association

If your local park is not listed, email parksvolunteer@cityofmadison.com to request adding that park for 2027.

More information is available on this Madison Parks webpage.