Belle Isle Spring Clean Up | Kids Out and About Ann Arbor / Detroit

Belle Isle Spring Clean Up

Earth Day on Belle Isle is all about enjoying + protecting our natural environment. With the map provided, you may pick up litter while exploring the park at your own leisure. At the end of the cleanup, please return to the Belle Isle Aquarium so that we can weigh the litter you collected and document the impact made on Belle Isle and along the Detroit River.

Please help us keep this calendar up to date! If this activity is sold out, canceled, or otherwise needs alteration, email mindy@kidsoutandabout.com so we can update it immediately. If you have a question about the activity itself, please contact the organization administrator listed below.

Through this event and the ongoing #KeepBelleIsleBeautiful anti-litter initiative, our goal is to make great impacts at both the local level, by reducing litter from Belle Isle, as well as the regional level, by being an active contributor to the umbrella, global campaign to keep our waters free of plastic pollution. Please join us in the fight for a clean environment. 

Cleanup Details

Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm, rain or shine

Location: Outside the Belle Isle Aquarium

Parking: Belle Isle Aquarium; Additional parking locations are marked on map linked below.

Supplies: Belle Isle Conservancy will provide trash bags (made of recycled ocean plastic pollution) and

gloves at check-in.

Weighing Your Impact: When you're done collecting single-use plastic and other littered items throughout the park, please return to the Belle Isle Aquarium to have it weighed. We love to measure our impact together! Every pound you collect prevents pollution in the Detroit River and our Great Lakes!

Groups: Groups are responsible for identifying their own meet-up location at check-in. Parking at check-in is limited. please consider carpooling or identify and communicate additional parking locations throughout the park, on the map, in advance. Group leaders are asked to communicate volunteer waiver requirements to their teams. Groups with more than 50 volunteers should email martind@belleisleconservancy.org

Kayakers: If you are bringing your own kayak to the cleanup, there will be a kayak check-in table where we will assign you a launch location. 

Requirements: Each volunteer is required to sign the digital waiver in advance of the event. One waiver per individual. Each person in a group is required to individually sign their own waiver.  Legal guardians must sign for minors. Individuals onsite during the cleanup that have not completed the volunteer waiver will not be considered participants.


*Times, dates, and prices of any activity posted to our calendars are subject to change. Please be sure to click through directly to the organization’s website to verify.

Location:

Belle Isle Aquarium
3 Inselruhe Ave
Detroit, MI, 48207
United States

Phone:

(313) 331-7760
Contact name: 
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Dates: 
04/26/2025
Time: 
9:30AM - 12:30PM
Price: 
FREE

Ages

Adults & kids together Adults without kids