CWPD Summer Bingo Card

Park Bingo

Are you looking for an easy outdoor activity to enjoy as summer winds down? Gather your family and friends for a game of nature Bingo in your parks! Print out these cards, drive or walk to a CWPD park, and…

Hummingbird drinking from a red flower by David Goldstein

Tricks of the Pollination Trade

In most plants, offspring grow from seeds. Flowers are a plant’s mechanism for producing those seeds. To do so, flowers must fertilize the female reproductive cells (ovules), located within the pistil, with male reproductive cells, contained in pollen produced by…

Queen Snake by David Goldstein

Queen of the Creek

You may be familiar with the phrase “a snake in the grass,” an unflattering term for a sneaky person. In the CWPD parks, though, you are just as likely to encounter a snake in the bush, or a snake in…

Jason Riley

New Park Commissioner Appointed

Jason Riley has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the Board of Park Commissioners of the Centerville-Washington Park District. He will begin his first year of appointment as the Secretary of the Board. Mr. Riley is the 19th…

Great White Trillium photo by David Goldstein

Flowers with Three-part Harmony

April and May are prime time for woodland wildflowers in Southwest Ohio. Among the dozens of species that bloom through the spring months—spring beauties, bloodroot, Virginia bluebells, trout lilies, May apples, and many others—some of the easiest to recognize are…

child holding a 51 Parks Challenge sign in front of a tree carving of a fox

2021 Annual Report Available

The Centerville-Washington Park District (CWPD) 2021 Annual Report is now available. Discover all of the exciting things that happened last year in your community’s BIG backyard! If you have any questions, please contact us at 937-433-5155 or mail@cwpd.org. We’re looking…

male and female cardinal on snowy redbud tree by David Goldstein

One Picture, So Many Questions!

Spring is such a beautiful season. Color returns to the landscape, and birdsong fills the air. Even a late dose of winter sometimes just adds to the enchantment. In April 2021, at the peak of redbud flowering, a nighttime storm…