BETSY’S PARK ANNUAL OPERATING EXPENSES

We appreciate your contributions to help keep Betsy's Park the beautiful, community oriented and fun filled place we all love to enjoy! Along with donations we've already received via the email/letter donation campaign held this past winter this platform will help us to hopefully raise an additional $25,000 towards the annual operating budget to complete our goal.

With the help of countless community members, many aspects of the park are maintained through their volunteer efforts, however, there are outlays that fall outside of the volunteered help category. The annual operating expenses include things such as landscaping, winter snow plowing, internet for Wi-Fi, propane heat for the cabins and paddle tennis warming hut, bathroom facility rentals and cleaning, electricity, annual repairs and maintenance of the playground and ice rink maintenance for skating.

No contribution is too little, and we greatly appreciate your continued generosity in helping to maintain Betsy's Park as the beautiful community space that is so impactful in our community.

BETSY’S PARK FOUNDATION MISSION

Betsy’s Park is a joyful place where watershed community members of all ages can enjoy play, exercise and quiet reflection in healthy natural surroundings. It offers the Squam community well-planned natural spaces for both robust outdoor play and calm inward reflection. Park landscaping enhances the site’s natural features and includes road-buffering berms and indigenous plantings. Park goers will enjoy a playground, beachside meditation area, a memorial sculpture, natural rock reflection area with a flowing water feature, fire pit, walking trails through the eight-acre site, paddle tennis and two pickle ball courts. In the winter, Betsy’s Park will offer sledding, ice skating, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.

This low-impact park sited on White Oak Pond in Holderness, NH has been created to honor Betsy O’Leary Abelson’s adventurous spirit, love of the outdoors and love for community. The park offers spaces for the Squam Watershed community to participate in many of the activities in which Betsy found both excitement and peace, and it provides a natural, lovely setting for the thing that she valued most – spending time with family and friends.

To best commemorate Betsy and honor her passion for leading an active, balanced, and healthy lifestyle, her family, friends, and generous donors came together to purchase a 1940s-era motel property on White Oak Pond and create Betsy’s Park, a low-impact community green space.

To learn more, please visit www.betsysparknh.org and Betsy's Park Facebook Page

Betsy's Park Annual Operating Budget

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Betsy's Park Annual Operating Budget