Parks and Recreation’s Leave No Trace Program

About the Program

Category: Parks and Recreation (Best in Category)

Year: 2013

The County of San Diego Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) incorporated and expanded an important wilderness-ethics movement/program to not only teach kids and adults how to simultaneously enjoy and protect nature, but to give people hands-on experience in the field and create hundreds of volunteers to help maintain one of our region’s most highly-used parks — Otay Lakes Park. The County’s “Leave No Trace” pilot program is an interactive 2-hour program that includes easy hiking, fun games, role-playing to learn the Leave No Trace (of human impact) principles — and the opportunity to immediately put those lessons into practice through ongoing service projects in the park.