Scout Hollow Campground is Re-Opening!

Thanks to a partnership between the Sierra Club's Detroit Inspiring Connections Outdoors (ICO), the YMCA, Kresge Foundation and the City of Detroit Parks & Recreation, youth camping is returning to Scout Hollow this year. 

​If you have a youth group interested in camping in Rouge Park, Detroit ICO will be offering training for camp leaders and camping equipment to borrow.  More information is available here: detroitoutdoors.org

Friends of Rouge Park
Monthly Membership Meeting
Tuesday, June 19 6:00pm
Westside Christian Academy
9540 Bramell, Detroit (map)

Miss our last meeting?  Read the minutes from the meeting here. Watch our Facebook page for updates here.

Park Events Calendar

June 2 12:00 pm Memorial Planting for Felisa Goldsmith, Buffalo Soldiers Horse Barn (map) (please register here)

August 5, 2:00pm 11th Annual Butterfly & Prairie Walk. Meet at the north entrance to the Prairie Pathway (map) (more details and register here)

Sept 8, 10:00am Grand Opening of the
Sorensen Promenade (map)

The New Stone Bridge Nature Trail is Open!  
Come anytime and enjoy the trail and learn about nature with the six new interpretive signs along the trail!

Planning an event ro want to reserve a shelter in Rouge Park?  Submit the Special Events Application below to the City of Detroit Recreation Department.  For more information, please contact Cheri Davis davisch@detroitmi.gov 313-628-4205​
Mission Statement
To advocate for the protection and enhancement of the natural features and habitats found in Rouge Park and to promote existing activities and facilities and appropriate development of future recreational activities.


The organizations below are joint members of the Friends of Rouge Park.  If you would like your organization to join our coalition, please click the "Join/Renew" button above.

Member Organizations
Detroit YMCA
Joy Community Association
Detroit Aero Modelers
Buffalo Soldiers Heritage Association
West Outer Drive Civic Association
Far West Detroit Civic Association
Warrendale Community Organization
Warren Avenue Community Organization
Friends of the Rouge
National Kidney Foundation
​Cody-Rouge Action Alliance
Motor City Mountain Bike Association
Michigan Black Horseman Assoc
Elite Archery, Inc.
Knuckles Health: Well-Able Walkers, Movers & Shakers Group
Detroit Inspiring Connections Outdoors ​

​Board of Directors
Sally Petrella, President
Arthur Edge, Vice President
Paul Stark, Recording Secretary
Chester Marvin, Treasurer
Paula Trilety, Membership Chair
Lorraine Harris, Corresponding Secretary
​Roger Corpolongo, Trustee
Tom McNulty, Trustee
​Peggy Dankert, Trustee
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​A big THANK YOU to all of the 304 volunteers who helped clean up Rouge Park on Rouge Park Appreciation Day, May 19.  

Volunteers removed: 204 bags of garbage weighing 4000 lbs., 2 mattresses, 25 tires, 17 bags of tile, 9 5-gal pails of fluid, 38 bags of garlic mustard weighing 612 lbs., 181 cu yds of buckthorn//honeysuckle, planted a 250 sq ft rain garden, improved a planting with 190 plants and 5 shrubs cleared 100 ft of trail.  

Hike the 1-1/4 Mile

Prairie Pathway & Butterfly Garden
(Map to the Trailhead here)

 See the 2017 Butterfly/Prairie Wildflower Walk Report and Butterfly Slideshow here
Come Explore Rouge Park!
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Last year members of the Friends of Rouge Park helped raise over $250 by using their Kroger Cards.  If you are a member of the Friends of Rouge Park shop at Kroger, you can help us by designating Friends of Rouge Park under the Community Rewards program and we will receive a percentage of your purchases at no cost to you.  To sign up, please go to:
www.krogercommunityrewards.com   (step-by-step directions here).
To become a member of Friends of Rouge Park for only $5/year, click here.

***FOR THOSE OF YOU ALREADY ENROLLED, YOU MUST RE-ENROLL after April 1 each year.  
To do so, log in at above address, then look under Community
Rewards and choose Friends of Rouge Park.
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​The Friends of Rouge Park