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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS & RECREATION​

Ka ʻOihana Mālama Pāka a me nā Hana Hoʻonanea

Department of Parks and Recreation > E Alu Pū Kākou! > Adopt a Park

This round icon is a simple tri-color logo of the E Alu Pū Kākou initiative, which looks like a bird of paradise flower, but instead of purple and orange petals, they resemble people with their arms stretch up to the sky.
This round icon is a simple two-color animation of a park with a tree, a bench, a sign and a pathway.

Adopt a Park
To provide long-term stewardship of our parks

Photo of volunteers working together to paint a wall at Koko Kai Mini Park with view of ocean in the background.

The Adopt a Park program fosters lasting partnerships with the kaiāulu (community) by working to maintain, beautify and improve City and County of Honolulu park lands. The Department of Parks and Recreation is responsible for maintaining 402 parks across Oʻahu with limited staff and resources. Volunteering to steward these lands in partnership with DPR is one way the community can get involved to maintain and improve park lands. This long term program requires a two year commitment by the Adopter with a minimum of four different work days per year. Together we can mālama ʻāina (care for and respect the land) and continue to keep Oʻahu beautiful! Mahalo!

Get Started

Find AAP applications, rules and regulations, park map and waivers.
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Volunteer Reporting

Submit after-action reports here.
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FAQs

Find answers to frequently asked questions about AAP!
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Contact Us

Contact information for the Adopt a Park team.
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Volunteer Spotlight

Photo of a man standing behind a table talking with a child at a beach park with ironwood trees in the background.

Ray Aivazian III lives the life of community service and park stewardship. He has adopted 3 parks with DPR through various organizations: Kalama Beach Park with Stimulating Education and Ecological Design (S.E.E.D), Keʻehi Lagoon Beach Park with Doris Miller Lodge NO. 6 and Neal Blaisdell Beach Park with National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Ray does a variety of clean-ups that include litter removal, large green waste removal, sand sifting/beach clean-ups, graffiti removal, painting and more! He collaborates and works well with DPR staff and other organizations to plan work days. The process is sometimes challenging but Ray keeps the goal of improving parks in his focus. 

DPR and the Adopt a Park team thank Ray and his teams for the awesome, island-wide stewardship they provide! Mahalo!

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