The Rise of Gru Movie Party

Minion One, Minion Two, Minion YOU at Movie Party in the Park on Saturday, August 19 at Forest Field Park! Come for games, crafts, activities and all things minions beginning at 7 pm! Bring a picnic blanket dinner, or grab…

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Conserving Habitats and Ecosystems

Your Centerville-Washington Park District is serious about providing the park and recreation opportunities you want! CWPD perpetually seeks resident and stakeholder input to build strategic plans, master plans, programming plans, capital improvements plans and budgets. This allows us to align…

You spoke. We listened.

Throwing Shade…the Good Kind!

Your Centerville-Washington Park District is serious about providing the park and recreation opportunities you want! CWPD perpetually seeks resident and stakeholder input to build strategic plans, master plans, programming plans, capital improvements plans and budgets. This allows us to align…

clearwing moth and wild bergamot

One Picture, So Many Questions

Mid-summer is prime time for our meadows and prairies. Butterflies are prominent among the insects visiting the yellow, pink, and purple flowers, drinking their nectar and distributing their pollen. But look carefully and you may spot the occasional moth among…

Two giant swallowtail caterpillars on a hopwood leaf

Hoptree: Worth a Second Look

The common hoptree, Ptelea trifoliata, is the northernmost New World representative of the citrus, or rue, family of plants. It’s a relatively small tree, less than 20’ (6 m) tall and less than 10” (25 cm) trunk diameter, found in…

flowering mayapple

April Showers Bring … Mayapples

Nothing says May like mayapples! Mayapples (technically, Podophyllum peltatum) have no relation to apples, and they first poke up through the leaf litter around the end of March. It takes a few weeks, though, for the large, umbrella-like leaves to…

Family of five fishing at the edge of a pond

2022 Annual Report

The Centerville-Washington Park District (CWPD) 2022 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…