Keeping Public Parks Open

For nearly 25 years, we have been providing high-quality management of public parks and recreation.

Why Private Management?

Many public parks organizations are struggling to fully fund parks.  By  substantially reducing operating costs, we help keep parks open. …

 
 

Quality & Trust

We understand trust is a big issue.  We have decades of experience running parks the way the public and your agency want them run….

 
 

Serving Non-Profits

Increasingly, states are turning to non-profits to keep parks open.  But where can non-profits turn for the needed skills?

 
 
 
Current Contracts
 

Current Contracts

RRM has contracts with local, state, and Federal agencies across the country to many many types of recreation resources.

 
 
Awards and Recognition
 

Awards and Recognition

We have won numerous awards and accolades for our management of public recreation.  One such recognition is the naming of campgrounds under our management to the list of Top 100 Family Campgrounds in America: 2003: [...]

 
 
 

Recent Blog Posts

  • Park PPP Conference Notes and Video
    I have finally gotten the powerpoint slides and video from our November, 2011 national conference on Keeping Parks Open Using Public-Private Partnerships.  You can find them in the “training resources” tab above or at this 2011 Conference Recap link […]
  • Arizona Private Park Operations Case Study
    Recently we held a series of fact-finding meetings for Arizona legislators and the executives of Arizona State Parks.  We held the meetings at a pair of public parks that are virtually adjacent to each other in Sedona, AZ.  Both parks are similar in size, facilities, and visitation.  The only difference is that one is operated [...] […]
  • Law Enforcement and Parks
    As my company privately operates public parks, our employees are often taking over from state park rangers who have law enforcement credentials.  When we propose our services, we often get pushback on this issue — how are we going to live without all these law enforcement officers with arrest powers and guns and badges in [...] […]
  • Can Private Management Keep State Parks Open In California?
    The San Francisco Chronicle addressed the issue of private management of public parks last week.  Unfortunately, despite the author’s stated goal of helping to answer questions about this approach, the article only interviewed people without any knowledge or experience with private park management and seemed to engage in some really wild speculation.  Here i […]
  • Terrific New Study on Park PPP’s
    Holly Fretwell of PERC has completed a great new study of how use of private companies to handle park operations can help keep parks open and well-maintained.  The introduction to the study is here and the study itself is here. Some state park systems rely on tax dollars provided through state general funds. When state budgets are [...] […]
  • 2011 Keeping Public Parks Open Conference – Update
    On November 2, 2011, I am hosting a conference in Scottsdale, Arizona on how public agencies can keep parks open through private recreation management partnerships. For thirty years, the US Forest Service has seen radically declining recreation budgets, with far greater reductions than places like California is facing, but has not had to close parks [...] […]