Beatty Parks & Rec. - BGID

05/08/2026

Help us finish the mural and play in the sunshine! We are looking for volunteers to help with getting the handprints on the tree, please reach out to the office 😁 ph: 775.553.9393 / cell: 775.277.1875 email: [email protected] 🌞🎨👍

05/07/2026

Design a Desert Animal Challenge Winners!

Rating Scale
3 Points for their Name and Age -- we had so many great submissions without names 😆
1 Point for Design
1 Point for having a desert adapted ability

Here are our winners!

0-5y: Emma Swisegood and Ellowyn Arroyo Byington

6-9y: Victoria Wright-Villanueva and Savanna Strayhorn

10-12y: Ava Carter and Clareli Partida

Honorable mention is our Scorpion Spider, but there is no name to go along with this creation.

Please contact the office if you have any questions 😁 775.553.9393 /cell 775.277.1875

05/06/2026

3 spots are still available!

Please contact the office to sign up your youth by Friday, May 8th, 2026.

Thank you!

REMINDER: Lifeguard applications are due by the end of this week.

Please contact the office if you would like to sign up your youth for this program! 🛟🌊

Thank you

05/02/2026

Beatty is Better with Community 😁

Thank you to our volunteers for this huge effort! Thank you to our board members who helped design, paint, and provided a cold drink for those who helped out today. Touch ups and final additions will happen over the next couple weeks.

Keep on eye out for our upcoming Splashin Into Summer event where we are asking the youth to come put up their handprints on our bare Cottonwood Trees 😎🌳🎨 We can't wait to see it finished!

Volunteer Board Members: Jennifer Lewis, Amina Anderson, Stephanie Beecham; Jon Delee for drinks.

Community Volunteers: Jessica and Kira Thompson, Henry Meier, Patrick Donnelly, Kyle and Justin and Emilyn Lewis, James (Last name unknown), and Amanda Revert-Swisegood. Apologies for anyone we missed, let us know and we'll update the post to reflect your support!

Staff: Thank you Bryan and Becka Rodgers for all the prep work including priming and taping off the building, and Autumn Arroyo for refreshments and help painting the mural.

05/02/2026

LIFEGUARD APPLICATIONS DUE ON MONDAY!

Here is the application for anyone who wasn't able to grab one in time.

04/30/2026

Applications are due tomorrow, but because the office will be closed, we will accept applications until the end of business day on Monday.

Thank you 🏖

04/28/2026

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: We are meeting Saturday, May 2nd @ 9 a.m. to begin laying down the paint for our mural project at Cottonwood Park!

We appreciate anyone who can spare some time for this improvement 🌳🎨

Our Cottonwood Park bathrooms are getting a makeover 🌳🎨

We are asking for art savvy volunteers to help us execute this project.

We need a list of volunteers by April 14th, 2026.

Please contact 775.553 9393 or 775.277.1875 for more information.

04/27/2026

REMINDER: Lifeguard applications are due by the end of this week.

Please contact the office if you would like to sign up your youth for this program! 🛟🌊

Thank you

04/23/2026

WOW! Earth Day River Clean Up had 90+ volunteers!

62 of the volunteers were from AngloGold Ashanti 🤝🏻 Everyone else was mostly students, with a handful of volunteers from our smaller Beatty organizations 😁 Also, thank you to Heavy Teach from AngloGold Ashanti for providing cool refreshments on such a beautiful day!

A HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY! The groups covered area from behind the Stagecoach, all the way down to Boulder Ridge. Trash, debris, and invasive weeds were pulled.

Here are the Design your Desert Animal Challenges we received -- we are accepting them until Friday for anyone who didn't get to turn one in! Check out their creativity 🔥 Winners should be announced some time next week.

Thank you again for a great Earth day 🌎

04/21/2026

A reminder, tomorrow is Earth Day 🌎

Meet us at the Chamber of Commerce, from 2p - 5p and help your community by removing trash and invasive weeds from the riverbed!

Earth Day 🌎 River Clean Up Event

Students and the Homeschool Group will get their Design a Desert Animal Challenge paper after spring break 🌸

For anyone who has a child who would like to participate and doesn't receive the paper, please reach out to the office and we'll get you one! We will also leave out a few copies at the post office.

Winners get a Swim Pass for the Beatty Swimming Pool. 😎🌊

04/20/2026

This notice will be posted around town and additional signage will be posted around the park and at every gate.

Thank you!