Tour de Parks California

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💕 A Message from the organizer, Maggie:

I just did the math and I have lived in California now for almost 44 years. And what have I done every single year that I have been here? Visited a state park. From going to Point Lobos State Natural Reserve when I was in 7th grade and being amazed by the coastal beauty like nothing I had ever seen before to hiking as an adult in Big Basin Redwoods State Park and marveling at the grandeur to be found there (still grand, just healing from fire). California is full of amazing parks that showcase the natural beauty and history of our state. Will you join me to help keep these parks open and accessible to all? Please consider donating to this fundraiser or forwarding this page to friends and family. With much appreciation, --Maggie

Raising and Riding to help make California parks more welcoming, inclusive and climate resilient!

Thank you for supporting Parks California through Tour de Parks!

We believe in the promise and potential of the next generation of park stewards. The work we do helps people from diverse background build connections with parks and benefit from a connection to nature, history, and culture. With each gift you generously contribute, another young person can take another step toward expanding their connection with nature and their impact on the future of parks.

Specifically, our Career Pathways, Route To Parks, and passPORTS programs enable young people to take important steps toward a lifelong relationship with parks. That lifelong relationship can lead to decades of active stewardship of California’s treasured parks.

When you contribute, you create opportunities for young people to build meaningful connections, and you invest in the promise and potential of the next generation of park stewards

You'll also help make parks more climate resilient so they remain healthy and available to all people for the next one hundred years and more. Our Landscape Scale Partnerships and Climate Fellows programs pilot projects in parks to address critical issues across the largest and most diverse state park system in the U.S. Addressing coastal erosion, wild fire, sea-level rise, habitat destruction, and other impacts of climate change across the diverse biomes of California, we are able to build frameworks, programs, and practices that can inform climate resilience world wide in the years ahead.

You may have a friend participating in Tour de Parks to raise funds to strengthen California's parks for the future. Thank you for supporting your friend, and thank you for investing in parks!

We have an ambitious goal of raising $100,000 through Tour de Parks, and we are grateful for your investment in California's parks! Your generous unrestricted support (meaning we will use your investment where it is needed most), for the overall project or via one of the participants, will help ensure parks are meeting the evolving needs of everyone – today and in the future.