There’s a landmark in your backyard.

Mission Trails Regional Park (MTRP) is one of the largest urban parks in the country, boasting more than 8,000 acres and 60 miles of trails. Mission Trails is and may be one of the reasons you moved to your neighborhood.

From all over the area we can see Mission Trails’ Cowles Mountain, the city’s highest peak; more than three miles of the San Diego River flows through MTRP. And, the park is home to more than 1,800 plant and animal species, many of which are rare and endangered. To refer to Mission Trails as a gem is an understatement, it’s an oasis in our bustling region and an invaluable resource for the community that needs to be preserved protected and maintained.

For 35 years, the nonprofit Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation and its community of supporters have helped make Mission Trails what it is today: a sanctuary where we can connect and restore. And, thanks to the community’s support, the MTRP Foundation has launched an initiative to acquire new land for the park, to expand the park beyond its current boundaries. Not only will this acquisition provide new areas to explore, but it will conserve the land and ensure that it will never be developed.

During this season of giving, we ask that you extend your generosity to Mission Trails, the park that provides for you.

Whether you come to the come to park to recreate and learn or enjoy the view of the park’s peaks from the comfort of your home, Mission Trails provides for you. We have an ambitious $100,000 year-end fundraising goal. Please make a donation of any amount to support the place that provides for you, that gives to all of us.

Visita mtrp.org/donate to make a donation online, or you may mail a check addressed to the MTRP Foundation to 1 Father Junipero Serra Trail San Diego, Ca. 92119. You also may call us at the MTRP Foundation to discuss ways to give to the park: (619) 668-3280.

Thank you for your consideration, and we wish you a healthy and happy holiday season.

Photo credit: Julia Leclerc