We are dedicated to the effective management of Toledo’s green-spaces, and to providing programs, facilities, and opportunities to enhance the quality of life for all of our residents and visitors to Toledo.

The division is organized into 4 main operations.

Parks

• Maintenance of 125 City of Toledo parks and facilities.
• Mowing of over 400 boulevards, cul-de-sacs and green spaces.
• Weed Control service mows 75+ large, private properties in an effort to return acceptable appearance per code. Property owners are subject to an assessment for this work.
  

See the map of mowed properties

Recreation

• Maintenance of more than 50 athletic fields and facilities, which include baseball and softball diamonds and tennis courts.
• Maintenance and operation of 6 city pools.
• Operation of the Ottawa Park Ice Rink as well as shelter house rentals.
• Special seasonal programming.

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Forestry

• Planting and maintaining of all trees on the public right-of-way (between sidewalk and curb), on boulevards, and in City of Toledo parks and cemeteries.
• Management of the Forestry woodlot in which tree limbs and logs are recycled into landscape mulch that is used in playgrounds in City of Toledo parks, around trees, and landscapes.

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Cemeteries

• Managing the operations, maintenance and services of 5 municipal cemeteries.
  

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