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Our Parks, Trails, and Natural Lands give so much to us — how can we give back to them? Whether you’re looking to earn student service hours, Adopt-A-Park, or join an advisory committee, there are many ways to get involved. Learn more in the tabs below.
Get Involved
Interested in demonstrating community pride and making a positive statement for clean, attractive leisure areas? Participate in the Adopt-a-Park Program. Facilitate the monitoring, clean-up and enhancement of parks, natural lands, trails and trail heads maintained by Seminole County. The Adopt-a-Park Program is a one-year commitment with a 3-4 hour per month minimum volunteer time — there aren't any separate Adopt-a-Park cleanup events.
Activities include trash pick-up, weeding and raking playground and landscape areas, sweeping shelters, cleaning picnic tables, mulching trees and shrubs, trail blazing and reporting graffiti or vandalism. Adopters also assist with special projects such as graffiti cover up, painting and light landscaping.
Program Information
- Find more information in the Adopt-A-Park Program Handbook.
- Adults and youth can participate. There must be a minimum one adult supervisor for every five children.
- Monitoring of the park, natural land, trail, or trail head should be done on a regular basis, usually at least once a month.
- Trash bags will be provided. Seminole County Parks and Recreation will be responsible for disposal of trash-filled bags.
- A sign will be posted in the adopted park, natural land, trail or trail head crediting the organization/group for their assistance.
- An adopting organization/group may keep any and all proceeds from any materials with recyclable value that are found and identified as trash.
- The adopting organization/group commits to a one-year period of adoption. At the end of that year, an organization/group may also opt to renew or change location.
Call 407-665-2001 or email Sherry Williams at swilliams02@seminolecountyfl.gov for additional details.
PDF: Adopt-A-Park Program
Submit your group's Adopt-A-Park service hoursSeminole County Parks and Recreation provides opportunities for business sponsorships that provide enhanced programs and services to the citizens and visitors and great visibility for the local business.
For more information call 407-665-2170.
We appreciate our community business partners!
- Adventure Cycling
- CLASS Athlete
- Clincloud, LLC
- Cuplet Fern Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society
- Dominica Recreation Products
- e-tennis
- Iron Doll Fitness
- KidTown, USA Tuscawilla
- KinderCare
- MIDFLORIDA Credit Union
- Orlando Luxury Homes
- Save Rural Seminole
- Seminole Audubon Society
- Seminole County Homeschoolers
- Sunshine State Seekers
- Tomasino's Pizza
- USTA Florida
To learn more, please view the Volunteer Handbook. Call 407-665-2001 or email swilliams02@seminolecountyfl.gov to apply.
More Resources
Seminole County Parks and Recreation maintains over 60 miles of landscaped medians. Our landscapes utilize the Florida-Friendly Landscaping philosophy promoted by UF IFAS Extension Seminole County. We rely on low-to-no irrigation, drought-tolerant materials, and best-management practices within our landscaped streetscapes in order to preserve our resources without sacrificing aesthetics. For more information, contact 407-665-2001.
Seminole County Parks and Recreation staff use resource monitoring to ensure that the natural lands of Seminole County are being managed efficiently and effectively. During twice-yearly bioblitzes, staff:
- Identify plant and animal species with the help of professional and volunteer experts
- Conduct gopher tortoise burrow surveys
- Monitor invasive species control effects
- Monitor public-use impacts
- Survey habitat restoration effects
- Provide data to state partners
Programs
Participate in the Memorial Program to honor a loved one, mark an anniversary or special occasion, or recognize an event or significant achievement.
A bench or native tree will be placed at one of our parks with a plaque placed on or near it. A card will be sent to the person you designate acknowledging your gift. Funds received from the Memorial Program are used to purchase the tree or bench to serve as a reminder of the special people in our community.
Call 407-665-2170 for details.
Complete the Memorial Program Brochure and send with your check to:
PARCS Foundation
c/o Seminole County Parks and Recreation Department
100 E. First St.
Sanford, FL 32771
Scholarship Seminole offers youth in Seminole County the opportunity to participate in Parks and Recreation programs and activities, regardless of economic status. Qualifying criteria based on income does apply.
Interested applicants should complete a Scholarship Seminole Application and submit for consideration at least two weeks prior to beginning of the activity. Your information will remain confidential.
Scholarships apply to youth programs managed by Seminole County Parks and Recreation only. Scholarships do not apply to programs that are contracted with outside providers.
For more details, call 407-665-2001.
Complete the Scholarship Seminole Application and send to:
Parks and Recreation
Scholarship Program
100 E. First St.
Sanford, FL 32771