Recycle your holiday tree by bringing it to Van Cortlandt Park, where the VCP Forest Restoration Crew will chip it into mulch! This event will take place in the “free lot” near the Van Cortlandt Golf Course; as you drive in from Bailey Avenue, it will be the first parking lot on your left. For more information on additional locations...
Help us remove some introduced species to create a healthier Van Cortlandt Forest. Advance registration is required.
Can It! A Story of Trash in Van Cortlandt Park. This virtual workshop is open to the general public and is a part of the 27th Annual Bronx Parks Speak Up.
In March, the Volunteer Trails Crew will be blazing and working along the Jerome Wetland Walk, a beautiful trail in the Southeast corner of Van Cortlandt Park.
Our beautiful small freshwater river that runs through Van Cortlandt Park is in need of a Spring cleaning. Help us remove trash from the brook and along its banks.
Help us kick off Earth Week 2021 with a spring planting of shrubs and trees in the forest of Van Cortlandt Park, along the Putnam Greenway. In addition to planting, we will also be removing the introduced garlic mustard species.
Learn about the lives of African Americans in 17th- and 18th-century Dutch New York and the celebration of Pinkster, a Dutch and African American holiday celebrated in New York and New Jersey.
Family Fun Hikes in Van Cortlandt Park. For 2 to 6 year olds and their adult(s). Led by a VCPA educator! Both easy hikes include a hands-on activity and goody bags for all participants!
What would a Pinkster celebration look like? Enslaved Africans in 17th- and 18th-century New York used the festival as a way to reconnect with family and resist the erasure of their West African cultures.
VCPA wants to welcome volunteers back to our garden for our first volunteer day of the 2021 season.
Get outside and get crafty with the Van Cortlandt Park Alliance this spring. Join our educator in repurposing old objects into new crafts you get to take home.
On Juneteenth, in gratitude for the sacrifice of the African Ancestors who built what is now Van Cortlandt Park, the African Burial Ground in the park will be consecrated.
