Thank you to everyone for tuning in to KMOV’s A Day 4 Forest Park. Through this communal effort on December 11, we raised over $12,000 to support the year-round care and maintenance of Forest Park.
Forest Park Forever is a success story rooted in generous community members and donors who support Forest Park for this season and future generations. And there is still time to join us!
Special thanks to our friends at KMOV for being the Forest Park Forever media partner this season and to Enterprise Mobility Foundation for doubling the impact of memberships by matching new gifts of up to $1,000 dollar-for-dollar through the rest of this year (December 31, 2024).
Why Support Forest Park Forever?
It's hard to believe today, but Forest Park was once in decline, with crumbling infrastructure and deferred maintenance that kept people from visiting. Thanks to the greater St. Louis community supporting our nonprofit conservancy, the Park is now a treasured destination with over 15.5 million annual visitors. Our team cares for over 592,000 square feet of landscape beds across 13,000-acres. We plant over 68,300 flowering bulbs (like tulips and daffodils) in addition to 7,400 flowers and other foliage. We care for nearly 16,000 trees and planted over 450 last season. Members support this daily maintenance and more!
Do you know an alleé is probably the backdrop to one of your favorite spots in Forest Park? Thanks to our partners at KMOV, you can experience how tree-lined pathways and other places in Forest Park bring joy to generations of visitors (2 minutes), learn more about John F. Kennedy Memorial Forest from our team (2 minutes) and get excited about the projects to come (2 minutes) in Forest Park next year.
Forest Park Ecologist, Amy Witt, recently took a walk with BradEN STL and shared how her team restores and maintains urban habitats in the Forest Park Nature Reserve. Tune in to the Ope Cast podcast here (30 minutes) for that conversation.
Just as there are many features that draw people to Forest Park, there are many reasons people choose to support our region’s beloved Park by becoming Forest Park Forever members. Learn what the Park means in their words. Members support our work for the next generation and more!
If you visit Forest Park, if you love Forest Park, or you just appreciate how it brings our community together, we encourage you to “Be the heart of the Park” and become a member today.
Want to Learn More?
To celebrate KMOV's A Day 4 Forest Park, we hosted two pop-up events in the Park so members can learn more about taking a leadership role in ensuring the Park remains beautiful and well-maintained. Generous Leffingwell Society members make up Forest Park Forever’s leadership-giving society with gifts of $1,000 or more annually.