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TRAPS East Region The TRAPS East Region is part of the Texas Recreation and Park Society (TRAPS), a nonprofit education organization!

The TRAPS East Region hosts a variety of workshops, conferences, and special events for parks and recreation professionals. This includes our annual East Region Workshop, Maintenance Rodeo, and Golf Tournament. Our parent organization, the Texas Recreation and Park Society (TRAPS), is a nonprofit educational and professional organization founded over 75 years ago to advance the profession of parks, recreation, and leisure services in Texas. The Society serves as a clearinghouse of information and resources to help with a wide range of challenges facing park, recreation, and leisure service professionals. These include: programming, grant and aid applications, coordinating events, promoting projects, advocacy and legislative awareness, job postings, and professional development and training. Our membership database contains information on the hundreds city and county park and recreation departments around the state, as well as colleges and universities with parks and recreation curricula, state agencies, river authorities, and non-profit and educational entities. A state affiliate member of the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), TRAPS also maintains professional affiliate relationships with several state universities, athletic and civic organizations, recreational entities, state agencies, and commercial vendors who provide services or programs related to parks, recreation, and leisure service management. Mission:
To provide education, advocacy and resources to all who enhance the quality of life through parks, open spaces and recreation.

TRAPS East Region - y'all showed OUT at this month's meeting!! Thanks to Sienna Parks And Recreation (for hosting), Kraf...
10/17/2026

TRAPS East Region - y'all showed OUT at this month's meeting!! Thanks to Sienna Parks And Recreation (for hosting), Kraftsman Commercial Playgrounds & Water Parks (for lunch), and NASA's Johnson Space Center (for the CEU presentation) 🎉

🚀Link ⬇️ to register for next week's TRAPS East Region meeting at Sienna Parks And Recreation, sponsored by Kraftsman Co...
10/07/2026

🚀Link ⬇️ to register for next week's TRAPS East Region meeting at Sienna Parks And Recreation, sponsored by Kraftsman Commercial Playgrounds & Water Parks 👏 Thanks to Samuel Miller, with NASA, for being our guest speaker!

NASA's Johnson Space Center
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
https://membership.traps.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=2067583&group=&fbclid=IwVERTSAUzo9BleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHo38XrwGtWboRC0lOu67w51moZxAX0F_a5WzpF0F5Wx7O7yN2Z_GRvrLW6gf_aem_-E6KQnR4Qh-QhZmJb-rsoQ

🚜It's Rodeo time again! The TRAPS East Region Park Operations Rodeo will be held on Tuesday, November 17, 2026, hosted b...
10/06/2026

🚜It's Rodeo time again! The TRAPS East Region Park Operations Rodeo will be held on Tuesday, November 17, 2026, hosted by Galveston City Parks & Recreation Department at Sandhill Crane Soccer Complex.

The Rodeo brings together Parks Operations Departments from across the region to showcase their skills, compete for bragging rights, and earn awards in a variety of exciting competitions!

Thank you for supporting the rodeo in 2025 and we would love to have your business join us as a vendor again this year! With approximately 300 participants representing 18 different organizations, this is a great opportunity to showcase your equipment, products, and services directly to the parks professionals who use them every day!

TRAPS could not host events like this without your generous support. Thank you for your continued partnership, and we hope to see you in Galveston! If you have any specific questions, please contact our Region Director, Pamela 🙂 CLICK LINK BELOW to sign up: (new online sign-up form):
https://fs24.formsite.com/TRAPS/vqngaggl51/index

Texas Recreation and Park Society (TRAPS) friends, stop by the Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects booth 1322 today at ...
09/30/2026

Texas Recreation and Park Society (TRAPS) friends, stop by the Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects booth 1322 today at NRPA and help us promote NRPA 2027!! Thanks to Rich and Susan for helping design the shirts...and to BSW for sponsoring them! If you are not at NRPA, make sure to attend the October East Region meeting where we might be handing out shirts?! 🤔🧐

Sign Up to Attend the October Region Meeting:
Thursday, October 15, 2026 @ 11 a.m. – Sienna Recreation (10323 Mount Logan, Sienna, TX 77459)

Link to Register: Texas Recreation and Park Society https://share.google/QsHNrV7lIztvoBWgv

✅ The TRAPS East Region September Monthly Meeting was a success! Thank you Brazoria County Parks Department for hosting ...
09/23/2026

✅ The TRAPS East Region September Monthly Meeting was a success! Thank you Brazoria County Parks Department for hosting and providing a facility tour......and thanks to Kimley-Horn for the lunch and learn! 🎉

Be sure to stay up-to-date on the TRAPS calendar:
https://membership.traps.org/events/event_list.asp
..and to the TRAPS East Region Webpage:
www.trapseast.org

NRPA is heading back to the Lone Star State in 2027, and we’re starting the celebration early, and we need your help get...
09/22/2026

NRPA is heading back to the Lone Star State in 2027, and we’re starting the celebration early, and we need your help getting the word out!

We’re excited to unveil a limited-edition Texas t-shirt celebrating NRPA’s return to Houston in 2027.

Our valued industry partner, Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects, will be giving away the shirts at NRPA Exhibit Hall Booth #1322 on Wednesday, September 30.

But there’s a catch:
👕 One shirt per person
⭐ Only 150 shirts available, first come, first served
❤️ And if you grab one, you must wear it on Thursday, October 1!

Why Thursday? We want to fill the conference with a little Texas spirit while also saying THANK YOU to Philadelphia, our incredible 2026 host, and celebrating the trail ahead to Houston in 2027.

A huge thank you to Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects for sponsoring the shirts and helping us build excitement for NRPA 2027 in Houston!

Wednesday: Get the shirt.
Thursday: Wear the shirt.
2027: See y’all in Houston!

⚠️ NOTICE: The 2026 TRAPS East Region Awards nomination period closes soon (9/23) at 11:59 PM. I know, it's okay. We can...
09/09/2026

⚠️ NOTICE: The 2026 TRAPS East Region Awards nomination period closes soon (9/23) at 11:59 PM. I know, it's okay. We can't believe it either. Super quick. Submit your nominations ASAP: www.trapseast.org/awards

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