Marsing, ID

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Park enhancements

Description: The city will install an outdoor fitness court, which will be available free of charge to residents of all ages and abilities. To make the space inviting, the city will also create a mural.

Bonanza, OR

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Park enhancements

Description: This project will transform a playground into an accessible space for all ages. It will include level surfaces, shade structures, and benches, promoting improving access for people with mobility challenges.

Tucson, AZ

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019

Project Category: Park enhancements

Description: City officials set out to revitalize the underused Francisco Elias Esquer Park, located around the corner from a large public housing community for older adults in Tucson's Barrio Blue Moon neighborhood. To address the needs of locals with disabilities, volunteers installed a wheelchair accessible walking path, benches and a dog comfort station for service animals. They also added passive water harvesting basins to draw birds, bees, butterflies and other wildlife. At a planting party for community members -- one of several events to publicize the new amenities -- neighbors spent a day digging in the dirt and enjoying a renewed sense of community.