Come practice your nature photography skills! Find creative inspiration in the moss, emerging plants, blooming trees and wildlife 🤩🌱🦆
Shoutout to our wonderful walk leader, local photographer and entrepreneur @flemi.jpg !
This event is a collab with @theunwind.edit - an event curation experience. 📸💌 more info TBA!
All skill levels, photography mediums and even models welcome!
We’ll have some disposable cameras for folks to play with as well! Come thru and bring yr friends!
🌱Join us for our BIG park cleanup of the year! There will be a variety of projects throughout this 1100 acre park for people to work on and LUNCH PROVIDED!
Let’s get this park cleaned up for everyone to enjoy! 🌳
Shoutout to Americorps for their continued support for RPAD!
#rougepark #detroit #michigan #westsidedetroit
Are you lost but wanting to explore #RougePark ?
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We know Detroit’s largest park at 1,112 acres can get a little confusing 🫣😩
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Hopefully this map helps during your next visit to Rouge Park! 🍃🌾🌳🦆🦌🥾
#DetroitNature #DetroitOutdoors #DetroitParks
Throwback photos from RPAD last year to hype y’all up for tomorrow!! Rouge Park Appreciation Day 2026! We even had some press coverage 😎 Grateful to our Americorps partners!! #russmawby #rougepark #detroit
We’re so excited to welcome the multitalented Sarah Fleming to facilitate the photo walk this Sunday May 17th at Rouge Park!
📸 Be sure to check out her amazing photography and art direction on her page @flemi.jpg and @theunwind.edit for more expertly curated experiences and events in Detroit
🌿Don’t forget to register online and dress for walking on uneven ground in the woods!
😎 Normalize using your free public parks in creative ways
UPDATED DATE & TIME for our vernal pool monitoring event!
Hopefully we find more fairy shrimp! 🤞
Register at the link in our bio!
#detroit #rougepark #westsidedetroit
We’re only 5 days away from our biggest park cleanup event of the year!
Ever wonder how and when these big projects get tackled? Whether it’s pulling old cars out of the river, cleaning up trash in the forest, maintaining the fruit orchard or pulling invasive species- many hands make light work on Rouge Park Appreciation Day (RPAD). 💪🙋🏾♂️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏿🙋🏽♀️⚒️
See you on Saturday, bright and early! We will have snacks and lunch! Let’s work to maintain our public spaces together! We all deserve a clean park 😤
#rpad #rougepark #detroit #westsidedetroit #detroitnature
Osprey spotted in Rouge Park by Tim Hunter!
May is peak migration month for birds- come to Rouge Park for birding this month and help us win the Great Detroit Bird Off!
Submit the birds you see to the eBird app and learn more about this competition organized by @detroitbirdalliance all month long!
#detroit #detroitnature #rougepark #westsidedetroit
Spring is here & so is garlic mustard 🌱
We’ll be hiking Rouge Park to take this fella out 11-1 starting at Sorenson! But if you’re out at Rouge(or anywhere) see it, pull it, eat it. This invasive plant spreads fast and crowds out native wildflowers that our ecosystems depend on. The good news? It’s edible, nutritious, and honestly… pretty delicious.
Turn stewardship into a snack:
Garlic Mustard Pesto
• 1 cup garlic mustard leaves (washed)
• ½ cup nuts or seeds (walnuts or sunflower seeds work great)
• ½ cup olive oil
• ¼ cup grated parmesan (optional)
• Juice of ½ a lemon
• Salt to taste
Blend it up and toss it on pasta, spread it on bread, or dip veggies in it.
Every plant you pull makes a difference. Every step you take builds a relationship with the land. Get outside, take care, and take some garlic mustard home with you 🌿
Fire has been an essential part of human’s relationship to this land since time immemorial. Essential for healthy prairie habitats, fire is a rejuvenating disturbance that prevents woody plant encroachment, removes accumulated dead plant litter, helps manage invasive species and cycles nutrients back into the soil. Without fire, prairies turn into shrublands and eventually forests. Through our partnership with Huron Clinton Metroparks and contractor Plantwise, the Rouge Park Prairie from Joy Road to near Tireman was burnt last week! Come visit the prairie to see the scorch for yourself! This will be a wonderful year to observe the prairie’s robust regrowth!
Shoutout to @detroitbirdalliance for helping make this happen!
Trees are blooming in Rouge Park and we can’t get enough! 🌸🌸🌸
Apple blossoms, cherry blossoms, redbuds and more! Come through and appreciate this short season of pinks and purples 🪻🌺
