“National Park and Recreation Month kick off and 4th of July Celebration at Tropical Park”

About the Program

Category: Parks and Recreation (Best in Category)

Year: 2023

Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces created a special event called “National Park and Recreation Month kick off and 4th of July Celebration at Tropical Park” which was a free family-friendly event for people of all ages and all abilities. At the event, more than 15,000 residents of our culturally diverse Miami-Dade County community, enjoyed listening to a live musical performance by the Latin-Grammy-nominated “Son Lokos” band, as well as picnicking, fireworks, and a host of family-friendly activities for people of all ages and abilities, in a beautiful park setting, with a non-traditional twist. The activities aimed to raise awareness, mobilize and engage the community in the preservation and sustainable future of our county’s most treasured parks, beaches, greenways, blueways, trails, nature preserves, wildlife, and clean air, engaging the use of eco-centered displays and presentations on the Parks Department’s role in environmental research, community education and hands-on conservation and resiliency efforts for wildlife and the environment. Guests enjoyed meeting wildlife ambassadors, nature-based recreation, and everything from learning to take up environmental conservation practices and eliminating marine debris and invasive plants, to how bicycling more and planting trees can improve air quality and community livability.