CITO at Eliza Howell Park Cache In Trash Out® Event

In honor of National Park Week and Earth Day join us to Cache In Trash Out at Eliza Howell Park. We will meet at 2pm in the parking lot near the tennis courts. The entrance to the park is located on Fenkell (Five Mile) just east of Telegraph on the south side. We will plan to be around until 5pm but any help will be appreciated

There will be new caches added to the park for the celebration.

The new caches will be available at 2pm or anytime after. On Telegraph nearby are fast food and gas stations.

The Park is located near Fenkell and Telegraph, has 250 acres of land, making it the fourth largest park in Detroit. It is about one fourth of the area of Belle Isle or .25 square miles.

The family of Eliza Howell, a real estate developer in Metropolitan Detroit, gave 138 acres (56 ha) of that land to the City of Detroit in the 1936. The 1936 deed restriction states that the city is required to maintain the land as a public park.

In the Spring of 2009 the City of Detroit stopped mowing Eliza Howell and other parks in order to save money. Organizations like The Friends of Eliza Howell Park began maintenance as a natural wilderness with nature trails. The Park is part of the Friends of the Rouge since the Middle Rouge River travels through the park.

In 2010 Chazz Miller, a Detroit artist, and several volunteers painted plywood cutouts of butterflies as part of the "Papillion Effect" an anti-blight campaign ("Papillon" is  French for "butterfly"). Miller added several butterflies to the nature trail at Eliza Howell Park.

Historical Material from Wikipedia