Trash and Invasives Everywhere
Welcome to Upton Hill Regional Park (Aug 6, 2019)!
Trash In and Along the Park
NOVA Parks has failed to devote enough resources for maintenance. Trash is an eyesore in Upton Hill Park. It greets you when you enter the park. Its along every trail. It's in the forest. And, it has been this way for years. Once the climbing structure is installed in the upper park and the new pavilion is built in the lower park there will be more activities, more people -- and more trash.
NOVA Parks should use these funds to have invasives -- which are also everywhere -- professionally removed from the park and hire more personnel to properly maintain the park.
After collecting yet another bag of trash while walking along the park, we asked the County to install signs. Thankfully it did, but trash is still pervasive around the border of the park.
A walk around Upton Hill Park - Dec 13, 2020 - Still Trash Everywhere
Somebody managed to finally pick up the empty Heinekens! But not out of the woods yet. Plenty more bottles and trash along Wilson Blvd. and ...
... in the RPA near Wilson there is a beach chair plus trash and cans ...
... while down by the stream a beer bottle in the RPA and a plastic bottle on the trail.
In the upper park, trash around the "eco-forest" and next to the newly expanded parking lot.
A walk around Upton Hill Park - Dec 8, 2020 - Still Trash Everywhere
Heineken bottles, bag of trash and coffee cup still in park next to sidewalk on Wislon
More trash, beer bottle and plastic bottle at top of hill next to parking lot.
Trash strewn around eco forest
A walk around Upton Hill Park - Nov 23, 2020 - Still Trash Everywhere
Heineken bottles and bag of trash still there. Plastic bottle at entrance. A plastic pail thrown into the park.
More beer trash next to Wilson.
Shoe still hanging around next to eco-forest
A walk around Upton Hill Park - Nov 1, 2020 - Still Trash Everywhere
Bag of some trash in forest next to Wilson Blvd. and Heineken beer bottle still there. First photographed on Sept 26, 2020.
More Heineken bottles and coffee cup just adjacent. First photographed on Sept 26, 2020.
A shoe came back
More Heinekens next to newly expanded parking lot
Fallen eco forest sign
A walk around Upton Hill Park - Oct 29, 2020 - Still Trash Everywhere
Plastic bottle at Wilson and Livingston Entrance
Plastic bottle next to bike path
In case you need a plastic bag, one handily stashed in a tree
Heineken bottles and coffee cup still there
Trash at service road entrance at Wilson
At top of hill next to new parking lot, more Heineken trash.
A walk around Upton Hill Park - Oct 17, 2020 - Still Trash Everywhere
Heineken bottles and bag of trash still there
Car tires dumped at entrance (Staff picked those up quickly. Hard to ignore it seems unlike all the other trash.)
Plastic bag blowing in the trees
Misc. trash at top of hill next to retirement home entrance
A walk around Upton Hill Park - Sept 26, 2020 - Still Trash Everywhere
Plastic bottles in front of you
Plastic bottles beside you
Plastic bottles all around you
Wine (bottles for a change) anyone?
Bag of some trash in forest next to Wilson Blvd.
Anybody for an (empty) Heineken? Bottles and a old paper coffee cup been here since at least Sept 21st.
In case you forgot your coffee on the way to ...
The trash around the batting cages
And more, which is still noticeable despite hiding under a bush
New parking lot trash
And more of it
Good thing about the new pervious pavers is the plastic bottles don't go through them
Trash regularly around the new "eco-forest" underscoring NOVA Parks commitment to the environment at Upton Hill.
Trash tree next to a trail still has its trash several day later. Someone at least picked up the abandoned sneaker next to the "eco-forest"
A walk around Upton Hill Park - Sept 21, 2020 - Trash Everywhere
Overflowing trash can at trail head
Paper trash in tree in forest
Plastic wrapper next to tree in forest
Beer bottles, cans and paper coffee cup along Wilson Boulevard sidewalk
Face mask along access road
Plastic bottle (and deer) between parking lot and new "eco-forest"
Abandoned sneaker next to "eco-forest". Been there for at least a week.
A walk around Upton Hill Park - March 3, 2018 - Trash Everywhere
