Friends of Carlisle Parks

05/14/2026

You’ll soon start seeing the beautiful flowers and hanging baskets around town! 🌸🌿

A huge thank you to our amazing volunteers who spent their time helping get everything planted and put together. Your hard work helps keep Carlisle looking beautiful all summer long, and we truly couldn’t do it without you!

We’d also like to give a special thank you to the City’s Public Works Department for helping get everything hung up around town. We appreciate all the work that goes into making Carlisle look its best for the community to enjoy! 💐

05/11/2026

WOW! Can’t believe it’s that time of year already!

Here is our summer watering schedule for the hanging baskets and planters around town!

We want to take a moment to recognize and thank all of our incredible volunteers. 🌸💧

Your time, dedication, and care help keep Carlisle looking beautiful all summer long. From watering in the early mornings or evenings to helping maintain the planters throughout the season, your efforts truly make a difference in our community.

Friends of Carlisle Parks is proud to provide and maintain these flowers and other beautification projects for the city, and we couldn’t do it without the support of our amazing volunteers and community members.

Thank you for helping make Carlisle bloom! 🌺🌿

04/19/2026

🌿 This is such an incredible opportunity for our community! 🌿

We love seeing items like this being offered through the Warren County Conservation Board. Opportunities like this give residents a chance to connect with nature, learn something new, and truly experience all that this park has to offer.

These are the kinds of initiatives that make a lasting impact encouraging outdoor exploration, supporting education, and strengthening our connection to the spaces we all share. 🌳

👏 A big thank you to everyone involved in bringing this to life. Your work continues to make Warren County an amazing place to live, learn, and explore.

Be sure to check this out and take advantage of everything our local conservation programs have to offer!

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04/09/2026

It’s that time of year! Join us and the City to get the parks ready!

01/25/2026

Thank you to Carlisle Iowa Parks and Recreation for collaborating with us to put on this event!

01/22/2026

We want to thank Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation for the article in their monthly magazine.

01/20/2026

With the weather cooling down and the ice rink receiving the “green flag” to be used.

We wanted to take this time to thank all of our volunteers who have taken the time to put up, maintain and to provide cover from the cold to warm up a bit!

Here is a video put together by one of our volunteers! Thank you David for putting up the shelter and for making this video!

We hope you are all enjoying the ice rink!

If you haven’t seen yet the Carlisle Iowa Parks and Recreation is holding an event there, this Sunday! Go check out their page for all of the details!

Thanks to the Friends of Carlisle Parks, the green flag is up and that means it's time for skating at Carlisle Iowa's Scotch Ridge Nature Park.https://www.go...

12/25/2025

FOCP wants to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! Safe travels for those traveling to visit family and friends!

12/14/2025

The ice rink is ready to go! Make sure to share your pictures!

12/10/2025

Saturday December 13th from 5-8 pm there are a ton of family friendly events happening! Hope you are able to join us!

12/02/2025

Time to make Ice!
If its going to be cold, we may as well try to skate!
We could use volunteer help Wednesday morning from 8 to 11 to set up the skating rink at Scotch Ridge Nature Park.
Please pass this along to anyone you know who may be available to help set up
See you there for set up Wednesday and hopefully we can be skating by the weekend