Friends of Indian Heights Neighborhood

05/05/2026

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This looks like a good program!

04/23/2026

This Saturday is our Litter Bit Better spring clean‑up, and the weather is looking great.

We’ll meet in the strip mall parking lot in front of the barber shop at 9:00 AM on April 25. Trash and recycling bags will be provided. Please bring gloves and wear long sleeves and sturdy shoes.

Looking forward to seeing everyone.

10/19/2025

Friends of Indian Heights Park are greatful to Scout troop 83 and scout leaders who tackled invasive buckthorn in Indian Heights Park on Saturday. The oak savanna has new native species starting to come back to the restored area.

09/28/2025

These National Public Lands Day volunteers cleared 4000 square feet of dense buckthorn in Indian Heights Park yesterday. Perfect weather, perfect companions, perfect results!

09/28/2025

09/22/2025

The fourth year of a controlled archery hunt in select Rochester parks will continue the city’s deer management effort.

The hunt will be held throughout the state’s bowhunting season, which runs from Sept. 13 to Dec. 31, 2025.

Rochester Parks and Recreation Department is again coordinating the hunt.

Parks and trails will remain open during hunting season, with some areas being designated as off-limits in 10 select parks. They are Bear Creek, Essex Park, Foster Arend Park, Gamehaven Reservoir, Hadley Creek Golf Course, Indian Heights Park, Northern Heights Park, Riverview West Park, Willow Creek Reservoir and Zumbro South.

Signs will mark where hunting is occurring.

Hunters are required to successfully complete Minnesota Bowhunter Education and pass the Minnesota bowhunter proficiency test. They are also expected to comply with all Minnesota Department of Natural Resources deer hunting rules and

Bowhunting for deer is typically done from a tree stand, which is a platform attached to a tree 10 to 20 feet above the ground. Being elevated improves the hunter’s ability to detect deer, reduces the likelihood that deer will detect the hunter and most importantly, establishes a downward shot trajectory so that arrows never travel far from the shooter’s location

09/04/2025

National Public Lands Day (NPLD) is on Saturday, September 27, 2025, 9 am-noon at Indian Heights Park (IHP)
Register by September 5 to get a T-shirt!
All are welcome; family, friends, coworkers.

This link will explain all the details;

https://minnesotamasternaturalist.org/courses/register/?courseId=2077

Volunteers will be gathering native seed for future planting. You will need to bring your own milk jug and carabiner, hand pruners, water bottle, snacks, etc. Wear gloves, boots ,and long sleeves/pants.

Please help us restore and preserve this wonderful park. See you there!

National Public Lands Day 2025 will be Saturday, September 27. This is a statewide event that provides unique opportunities for Minnesota Master Naturalist Volunteers to participate in our largest single day of service. Locations across the state will have MNats and others out helping to make Minnes...

07/31/2025

Inviting all of you in the Indian Heights Park neighborhood to this annual event.

04/23/2025

For Litter Bit Better, let’s meet in front the Barbershop in Valhalla Shopping Mall at 9am, this Saturday, April 26. Garbage and Recycling bags will be provided.

10/12/2024

While picking up litter in the park this morning I came upon this man taking two large bags of his household garbage out of his car and throwing it in the Harter’s garbage can at the park entrance. I explained to him that the park’s garbage can it not for people to use for their personal household trash, that it is available for people who use the park for recreational activities. I further explained that the park’s trash bin is provided privately by the our neighborhood association. He became quite angry, called a Karen and told me to mind my own business. He said there’s no signage saying he can’t dump his garbage there. I guess we’ll have to post some sort of a sign to that effect. Any ideas on the wording? Please let me know your suggestions. Also if you see this guy dumping his household trash in the park’s trash bin again, please let me know.
Thanks,
Barb Hudson, president of Friends of Indian Heights.