The Ultimate Outdoor Classroom!

Don’t miss this premier event featuring national and international thinkers and leaders in urban parks innovation. With more than 100 events, workshops and park tours led by city park planners, designers and visionaries, you’ll get the chance to go behind the scenes at some of the nation’s most creative parks solutions and learn from real-life case studies what works and what doesn’t. We get you out and about with mobile workshops, volunteer day, weekend tours, and receptions in great parks.  

Who should come:
Park professionals, city officials, nonprofit executives, urban designers, health practitioners, park advocates and everyone committed to building healthier urban environments!

 You’ll find sessions on:
- Doing more with less
- Leveraging the power of social media
- Tapping new sources of funding
- Measuring impact
- Forging new alliances
- Making streets more park-like
- & more!

 Behind-the-scenes tours get you outdoors: 
- See the world’s largest dump -
     now NYC’s largest park!
- Stroll the High Line!
- Go behind the torch at Ellis Island!
- & more!

Space for these and other great tours and workshops is limited,  so don’t wait too long!