Collins Park - Sponsored by the Friends of Collins Park

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You have reached the Friends of Collins Park Website

This site exists to provide information for members of the Friends of Collins Park group, located in the Riverside Neighborhood of Atlanta, GA., as well as to inform other neighbors and interested parties about our efforts to restore the Collins/Spink Park nature reserve.

To watch a powerpoint presentation about the Park, click here

If you would like to make a donation, please send an email via the "Contact Us" link at the top, and we will send you our mailing information. Donations are tax-deductable.

We would like to thank Park Pride for all their help, and recommend their services to any neighborhood seeking to restore a park. :-D

Recent News

Park Clean-up: March 10 (2007/3/9)

Thank you for your interest in your neighborhood park. This cleanup day will be for…well, we’re not quite sure yet. There are seemingly endless lists of things to do, and we can’t wait to get started on them all.

Right now is a good time to pull-up privet (an invasive plant that thankfully comes out of the ground pretty easily). Right now is a good time to pull the remaining tires out of the park and finish cleaning up the dumping sites. Right now is a good time to define where the trails are and perform simple trail maintenance.

Right now we need the hands, backs, legs, eyes, and minds of as many people as possible to do whatever possible. No skill level is required, no prior experience with the park is needed, no green thumbs are necessary. The more people we have, the more we can get done.

March 10 will also be the day when the Friends of Collins Park will receive the Collins Park Master Plan notebooks produced by ParkPride from all of the community input collected these past few months. We’d like for you to be there for this wonderful occasion and to share your thoughts and ideas with us about how you would like us to proceed. I can’t think of anything that we don’t need right now, so any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

March 10’s Cleanup Day will start from the Spink Street entrance to the park. We’ll begin gathering at the entrance at 8:45. Someone will always be at this entrance to meet with people and direct them to someone to work with, so please feel free to arrive as soon as you can and to stay for as long as possible!

Again, we appreciate your interest in Collins Park and your willingness to donate a few hours on a Saturday to your neighborhood park. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to email us at:

We Look Forward to Seeing You!
--Friends of Collins Park

Collins Park Clean-up--Dec 2 (2006/11/30)

hi all,

We will be having a clean-up day at Collins Park this Saturday, Dec 2, from 9-1 or so. It seems people have begun dumping there again, so we also should discuss some strategies for keeping such folks OUT of the park.

Please meet at 9 am on the Hollywood side of Spinks St, follow it until you get to a pile of logs meant to keep people froom going furhter (but which have apparently been chainsawed!). If you come late, walk down past the logs about 100 yards and we will be down the ridge to your left picking up trash.

Thanks, hope you can make it!

Friends of Collins Park

Public meeting--Nov 18, 2006 (2006/11/13)

There is a meeting this Saturday, November 18, at 2 PM at the Agape Center
on Bolton Road to discuss the preliminary options for Collins Park.

We will look at some of the ideas that were generated during previous
meetings. We hope to see you there.

Friends of Collins Park


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