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future leaders

Visit a Park Day 2011
Citizens and students participate at parks across the country
By Michael Bradley

I

wonder if many people have ever looked in their rearview mir-

ror in complete awe of their recent memories. I cannot say enough
about the successes from 2011. A little over a year ago, I thought I
had made a mistake in taking on the Visit a Park Day project. Linda Oakleaf, a former student branch chair, had the fantastic idea of creating a
day designed to spark curiosity and wonderment in the park setting.
such a great idea and help the 2011 Visit a
Park Day see success.
Visit a Park Day's purposes for students
and community members are fourfold, including increasing park attendance, providing service and learning opportunities,
fostering and creating lasting park relationships, and exposing the parks to various marginalized populations. This year,
several programs across the United States

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The beginnings of Visit a Park Day
were stellar; Linda succeeded in capturing
a national audience and procuring various
groups to participate in a wide range of activities. Was I really the person to nurture
this idea into 2011? As I told a colleague,
I might have bitten off more than I could
chew. Only with the help of various members of NRPA's Young Professional Network was I able to further the mission of

recruited hundreds of individuals to facilitate and participate in Visit a Park Day.
Groups in Champaign, Illinois; Raleigh,
North Carolina; Rockford, Illinois; and so
many more poured their efforts into a variety of programming and organized recreation to help make the event a success.
Various nonprofit organizations such as
the North American Association for Environmental Education, The Boys and Girls
Clubs, various state NRPA-affiliated agencies, a multitude of university and college
groups, and many other groups aided in
distributing information through an array
of media sources. Agencies used online
media sources like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google, newspaper sites, and other websites to spread the word about the

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