Community Powered Parks

Parks are essential and dynamic spaces. They provide us opportunities to be healthier and happier, and they make communities more resilient to social and environmental challenges. Over the past 20 years, TPL has helped create parks and conserve land across the Twin Cities—from North Minneapolis to the east edges of St. Paul—so more people can experience the benefits of these beautiful green spaces.

Our investments in parks reflect and communicate our core values and goals as communities; they are visible expressions of the type of world we want to live in and want to leave for future generations. While Minneapolis and St. Paul consistently rank among top cities on Trust for Public Land’s ParkScore® index, a powerful tool that gives communities the information they need to help close the park equity gap, up to 10 percent of residents still live further than a 10-minute walk from a park or natural space. We’re working to change that.

With support from our generous donors, local partners and public funders, we’re expanding the Twin Cities’ magnificent park systems to put green spaces in communities that need them most. We are connecting more people to the outdoors and to each other by creating green spaces, improving connections between parks and trails, and ensuring this green infrastructure benefits all local communities—building happier, healthier, and more climate-resilient communities across the Twin Cities.