2026 Ringing in The New Year! The programs HPca has going on right now are 1. Raised garden beds 2. Three Sisters Garden 3. The Butterfly Gardens 4. Homeschoolers support 5. Pavilion Activities 6. Annual Events (which have to be cleared through Mobile City Event Planning) 7. Project “Build a Fishing Pond” 8. The Purple Martin Migration Station 9. International Project Monarch Watch. We are Waystation #56729 in Mobile AL. 10. Tai Chi in the Park 11. Water irrigation installation in progress 12. Rent-A-Park (for Weddings and Family Gatherings) and 13. Allows you to be a candidate for HPca Administrative architecture and operations
Perks of membership are 1. Free Park entrance for individual users and up to two guests 2. No entrance fee to events 3. No fees to rent a garden bed 4. No fees for Tai Chi in the Park 5. Voting privileges for Highland Park Homeowner/Residents. And more! Also, the satisfaction of knowing that your membership dues are guarding and building this 25 acre greenspace and wildlife habitat every single day. We knew you’d love it! Now through December 31 We are having a 1/2 off annual membership dues ! Join Today and join the fun for half the price. https://highlandparkcommunityassociation.com/highland-park-community-association-membership-application/

NOTE *Highland Park Community Association, Lakeview Highland Park Community Association, Highland Park Lakeview West Estates Community Association and their likenesses are all trademarked in the State of Alabama through the Secretary of State

Breaking News: Guess What’s Coming to Highland Park!

10/29/2025

Stay tuned right here! A new alliance is coming together to save our park. Our voices have been heard. In the next couple of days a new addition will be added to the park. In the next couple of weeks a new partnership of support will be forged. In the next month a respectable and important advocate/s will stand with me to present this park as a beautiful community garden, bird sanctuary and wildlife habitat for all to enjoy in an orderly and understandable fashion. It is coming. Keep the Faith and keep the support coming. You can be a hero to your community by doing just one small reassuring kindness. Thank you. ~SLGr “A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a little boy’s shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended.” – Bruce Wayne/Batman, The Dark Knight Rises www.highlandparkcommunityassociation.com

Highland Park Community Association operates the administrative wing of the nearly 100 year old non-profit in Mobile, AL We operate under Title 10 — CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS. Chapter 3A — NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS and The Clean Water Act of 1972. Our waters are multijurisdictional. HPca, Inc is responsible for three easements, two parks and a 25 acre lake and spillway, on the Milkhouse Creek part of the Dog River Watershed. “Encouraging Responsible Watershed and Lakeside Management” since 1967 HPca sponsors the Highland Park Review newspaper, The Highland Park Community Gardeners group, the Purple Martin Migration Station, International Monarch Watch, and certified National Wildlife Habitat at Optimist Lake. HPca, Inc is environmentally conscious, protective, and defends our civic space birdsong sanctuary.

OUR STORY

For almost 100 years Optimist Lake provided a buffer zone for Federally protected wetlands. Since the collapse of the dam those wetlands are filling in with silt and pollutants from upstream. The waterfowl are gone. The lake is gone. We will work with what we have and in time the Greater Mobile area will realize the important role that Lake Optimist Dam served this community. They will come to restore the area for the greater good. In the meantime we are managing the parks, have built a wild songbird habitat, are cleaning up dead wood, protecting the land from outsider takeover, and working to get grants to restore the natural wetland and wildlife habitat. We ask that you support us in any way you are able. Thank you.