[NEW HAVEN, CT] — On Thursday morning during Earth Week, Mayor Justin Elicker, Parks Director Max Webster and other city officials, community leaders and residents will gather to celebrate the reopening of the Edgewood Park Ranger Station, including new improvements to the facility and expanded community programs.
One of New Haven’s largest parks, Edgewood Park spans 120 acres across the Edgewood and Westville neighborhoods, offering a variety of recreational amenities, activities and sports facilities for residents. The Edgewood Park Ranger Station was used in the past by the Parks Department and Youth and Recreation Department as a site for nature-based education and activities, summer camps and other youth and community programming. However, the facility had fallen into disrepair and in need of significant maintenance and upgrades for several years. Through a $170,000 investment of city and ARPA funds, the facility has now been updated and will again be reactivated for the community, including for the Parks Department’s Wilderness Wednesdays and other nature programs, New Haven Public Schools’ field trips, the Friends of Edgewood Park’s meeting space and Nature Pals – a toddler and caregiver program, among other community uses.
The upgrades to the ranger station – one of four ranger stations in the Elm City – builds on over $700,000 of other recent improvements to Edgewood Park, including an updated Coogan Pavillion, expanded skatepark and installed MidBridge water crossing. An additional $500,000 of planned improvements include developing a nature play space and outdoor classroom space near the ranger station; repairing the Sundial splash pad; installing bioswales, a rain garden and other green infrastructure improvements near the tennis courts and skate park to help reduce flooding; and improving lighting and biking and pedestrian access to support the city’s Greenways 2030 initiative.
EVENT DETAILS
WHAT: Reopening of Edgewood Park Ranger Station and new parks and community programming
WHEN: Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 at 9:30 a.m.
WHERE: Edgewood Park Ranger Station – Edgewood Avenue and Hobart Street, New Haven, CT
WHO: Mayor Justin Elicker; New Haven Parks Director Max Webster; State Representative Patricia Dillon; Alder Adam Marchand; Alder Evette Hamilton; New Haven Parks Outdoor Adventure Coordinator Jackie Gaudioso; New Haven Chief Landscape Architect Josh Price; representatives from the Friends of Edgewood Park and Nature Pals; among others.