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East Parkway Pavilion repaired and available for use
Thanks to some amazing support from our community, we reached our $16,000 goal for repairing East Parkway Pavilion in only four days! Wagner General Contractors quickly ordered, installed, and painted […]
If a tree falls in the forest…
[Originally posted April 24, 2013; updated with new content.] Overton Park is full of beautiful old trees. Many specimens in the Old Forest State Natural Area are estimated to be […]
Volunteers Spruce Up the Park
As we wrote in our last post, summer brings a lot of challenges to park maintenance. It seems like there’s always either too much rain or too little, the heat […]
Play It Safe: No Trick or Fancy Riding of Velocipedes
In Overton Park’s 111 year history we seem to have lost sight of a few very important rules and regulations that help keep our park safe for all. The Overton […]