Volunteering

Volunteers help make our programs and events successful! You can get involved in a variety of ways.

Want to Help?
If you are interested in volunteering, please call 218.299.5296 or complete our Volunteer Application and return it to:

Moorhead Parks and Recreation
Attn: Volunteer Coordinator
2400 4th Ave S
Moorhead, MN 56560

 Annually, on April 22, our global community mobilizes to protect our planet on Earth Day. It is estimated that over 1 billion people will take action this year and we want to be part of the movement. This year's theme is: Restore our Earth. Let's do our part and focus on restoring Moorhead. We have a goal to get every park, street, trail, and pond adopted at the beginning of the year for a one time city-wide clean up. Knowing this is hard to accomplish in one day, we will give you a whole week! Earth Week 2021 will take place from April 18-24. For a full list of adoptable areas, see the maps below. Volunteers will be entered to win a Prize Pack!  Thank you- and Let's Keep our City Clean!

Registration Form (click here): Please submit by April 5.

You Are Needed!

Citywide Beautification Opportunities- Parks, Trails, Streets, Ponds, and Flowerbeds
The City Beautification committee developed an ongoing comprehensive plan to help keep Moorhead  clean and beautiful by involving our community volunteers to adopt various areas throughout the city.

Volunteers can participate in the beautification program in one or two ways.  Adopt an area for the season or if time does not allow this, we always welcome one time groups to serve as groups either large or small, as families or as individuals. There are always clean up needs in the city, so we can customize your volunteer experience to what best fits your schedule.  If you are interested, please contact the Moorhead Parks and Recreation Volunteer Coordinator at 218.299.5296.

See the maps below for areas that need adopting, and please consider adopting your favorite park, stretch of the river trails, a downtown flowerbed, or one of our streets!

Thank you to all the volunteers that have helped with the beautification program!

Adopt-A-Street
Volunteer once a month from April-October to pick up litter along street right-a-ways. Priority areas have been identified on the Adopt a Street Map.

Adopt-A-Street Agreement

Adopt-A-Street Maps

Adopt-the-Red
Volunteer once a month from May-October  to pick up litter along river corridors. 

Adopt the Red Agreement
Adopt-the-Red Maps

Adopt A Flowerbed
Volunteer the end of May and throughout the summer/fall by planting flowers and maintaining area in downtown Moorhead along 4^th and 5^th Street or in the quiet zones areas.

Adopt-A-Flowerbed Agreement

Adopt-A-Flowerbed Map

Adopt-A-Park
Volunteer bi-weekly from April- October to help maintain our parks through litter pick up and raking leaves.

Adopt-A-Park Agreement
Adopt-A-Park Maps

Adopt-A-Pond
Volunteer once in the spring and once in the fall to clean up the shores of stormwater ponds.

Adopt-A-Pond Agreement
Adopt-A-Pond Maps

Special Events  

Haunted Mall
October 31, volunteer shift: 1-6:00 pm
Moorhead Center Mall

Frostival
January 29, volunteer shift: 10 am-4 pm
Hjemkomst Center

Celtic Festival
March 12, volunteer shift: 9 am-5 pm
Hjemkomst Center

 
Volunteers help make our programs a success! Groups and individual volunteers are greatly appreciated for their hard work and gift of time and talent in helping to make Moorhead a great place.