Report: Parks Build Healthy Communities Success Stories

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Are you interested in learning more about how parks help build healthy communities? If so, then you’ll want to checkout the National Recreation and Parks Association’s (NRPA) Parks Build Healthy Communities: Success Stories.

This guide provides examples of how communities were able to increase physical activity by:

• improving access to parks;
• increasing neighborhood bikeability and walkability;
• improving opportunities for exercise and play;
• supporting school programs to increase physical activity; and
• improving conditions of trails and signage.

Success stories also describe ways parks can work to improve nutrition, partner with the medical community to offer park prescriptions, and reduce tobacco use.