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Community Garden at Central Park

The Community Gardens at Central Park are an asset to our residents by providing access to fresh food, improving food security, and increasing fruit and vegetable intake. The community garden consists of 20 plots, with plans for more. If you want to reserve a garden plot for the season, please contact the Parks and Recreation Department at 918-259-7000, ext. 7440. For more information, go to Community Garden Rules (PDF)

Centennial Park Brick Pavers

Remember a loved one or commemorate a special memory by purchasing commemorative brick pavers at Centennial Park, 102 S. Main St., in the beautiful Rose District. Make a lasting impact with a brick paver that will become part of Centennial Park's pathway. Brick pavers with personalized inscriptions are available. Please contact the Parks & Recreation Department at 918-259-7000 Ext. 7440 for more information.

Commemorative Tree Program

The Parks and Recreation Department of the City of Broken Arrow has devised an easy method for families, friends, businesses, churches, and civic organizations to donate trees for planting in the City's parks. A plaque will be placed alongside the tree(s), and the donor will receive details about its location. By donating a tree, you're offering a present that keeps on giving every season, and one that the whole community can appreciate.

Full details (PDF)

Public Art

Broken Arrow Utility Box Public Art Program

In 2017, the City of Broken Arrow launched a program to support public art and to enhance the community and neighborhoods through the use of decorated utility boxes. The rose-themed project will enhance the aesthetics of the city, promote civic pride, and extend public art to new areas and unexpected places while creating an attractive environment and allowing art to be introduced to the public in a creative and inventive way. The program goal is to bring beauty to unexpected places such as utility boxes.

Artist and Sponsor Information

This art project is open to all artists who reside locally or regionally. Broken Arrow residents are given preference, and both new and established artists are encouraged to apply. A committee will review all submissions, and once approved, the artwork will be photographed and transformed into a vinyl wrap for installation on a utility box.

The sponsor of the utility box will be responsible for paying the artist's fee directly to the artist. If the sponsor wants to collaborate with a particular artist, the artist must complete the Artist Application and obtain approval from the City of Broken Arrow. The sponsor will cover all expenses related to installing the utility box wrap. The vinyl wrap company will be paid directly by the sponsor for the cost of the wrap and installation. The submission of art must take place from December to February or June to August, while the vinyl will be installed between March and May and September and November, taking into account weather conditions.

For more information regarding this public art program, please review the agreements or contact Lori Hill at LHill @brokenarrowok.gov or 918-259-6585.

Adopt-A-Mile, Park, or Trail

The Adopt-A-Mile program began in 1988 as a Chamber of Commerce endeavor in Broken Arrow. A few years later, the responsibility of linking civic-minded individuals, businesses, churches, and organizations with our streets and parks was handed over to the City's Parks & Recreation Department. In partnership with the City, Keep BA Beautiful has become an advocate for the Adopt A Mile/Park/Trail program.

Broken Arrow Monarch Movement

The Broken Arrow Monarch Movement is a citizen's committee dedicated to helping preserve the monarch butterfly. Over the last two decades, the population of this iconic black-and-orange butterfly has decreased by 68%. One reason for the decline is the loss of milkweed. Monarchs lay their eggs on milkweed, and the caterpillars depend on milkweed as their sole food source until reaching adulthood.
BAMM has partnered with the Parks and Recreation Department and Broken Arrow Public Schools to build monarch waystations around town. The waystations will contain milkweed for young monarchs to grow and other plants attracting monarchs and other pollinators. Citizens who want to plant their own milkweed mix garden to benefit the butterfly population may receive free milkweed mix garden seeds at Ray Harral Nature Park, 7101 S. 3rd St. in Broken Arrow.

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