PALISADES FOREVER

“Your Palisades Park,” a 501(c)(3), is excited to announce the “Palisades Forever” Veterans Gardens Campaign.

Veterans Gardens opened three years ago (100% funded by generous Palisadians) to create a town sanctuary to celebrate the best of our community – and to honor veterans from our town who have selflessly given to their country.

Veterans Gardens was imagined to replace a neglected, rundown, dirt field and a buckled, cement pad of graffitied, decades-old, worn picnic tables.

Designed, built, landscaped, and maintained by town funding, Veterans Gardens is already a beloved heartbeat in our spectacular, family-loving town for relaxing, picnicking, birthday parties, playing bocce, and myriad community-centric events.

Bocce leagues have exploded beyond anyone’s imagination at Veterans Gardens, with 680 Palisadians enjoying year-round weekly leagues.

The Tuesday morning Senior League has been enthusiastically embraced by nearly 350 of Palisades’ largest growing demographic – its senior citizens.

The weekly bocce league has created an unparalleled sense of community and belonging for our seniors, spawning relationships — well beyond the bocce courts.

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Continuing to build upon belonging and community, upcoming initiatives at Veterans Gardens include a Saturday morning Chess Club for chess lovers of all ages, a morning outdoor fitness club “Happy Hour,” and a bocce league for high school students confronting mental and physical challenges.

Since opening Veterans Gardens’ door, you can always find so much fun and activity by Palisadians in the five “Gardens in the Park”; including fantastic birthday parties, community get-togethers, American Legion events, you name it.

Veterans Gardens is now the home of a new town tradition, the “Palisades Picnic,” an autumn day for all Palisadians to celebrate everything that is beautiful about our town of the Palisades.

At night, at the base of our Palisades town flag, there is a stunning cylinder with stenciled words that light the surrounding area.

The words speak to the attributes and qualities that Palisadians hold most dear and to what we are privileged to enjoy in our town — because of the selfless and heroic service of our town’s veterans.

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$2,500,000 CAMPAIGN

To kickstart our endowment campaign, a generous Palisades family has anonymously agreed to donate $1,000,000 in matching funds as a challenge to fellow Palisadians.

Our town’s goal is to meet and exceed that challenge by raising $1,500,000 – to establish a $2,500,000 fund for the preservation, protection, improvement, operation and maintenance in perpetuity of the unique sanctuary of Veterans Gardens.