You can improve your parks and greenways right now. Accelerate Your Parks is all about speeding up the pace of improving your parks. You will find relevant and useful tool and tips that you can use immediately no matter your budget. Explore the classes and find out more.

Now more than ever people need places to play, relax, exercise, and get outside. There are simple things we can do to help make these places better and accessible to more people.

Hi, I’m Rick Wood and


After 17 years at The Trust for Public Land working on greenways and trails, I am exciting to share critical tools and insight that will help make your park system stronger. This school is for park directors, rising administrators, park leaders and those that simply want to improve their parks in the community.