It’s Show Time 2023 CPRA Parks Workshop & Tradeshow

By Jillian Strogis, Membership & Communications Coordinator, CPRA

The 43rd Annual Parks Spring Workshop & Trade Show took place this past April 6th at the Island Grove Regional Park Event Center. As always, the Event Center was the perfect location to gather Industry Partners, Parks Professionals, and Directors Section members for our second-largest annual event.

Not only is the Annual Parks Spring Workshop a close contender to our Annual Conference in planning and manpower, but this year’s attendance showed recordbreaking numbers that rival previous conference stats.

With over 475 attendees, 32 exhibitors, and 6 sponsors this may have been the largest Parks Show in CPRA history!

Serving 35 dozen donuts and countless gallons of coffee, the Show kicked off with exceptional educational sessions and an exhibit hall that lived up to the expectation of the 43rd rendition of this ever-favorite event.

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The excitement and scale of this year’s event certainly delivered on the promise from 2022 that we would be back bigger and better than ever.

Along with an increase in attendance, we also had an increase in engagement this year. We had more raffle prizes, more energized sponsors, and more varied and enthusiastic professionals. We saw newer staff, long-time veterans of the field, and many friends and colleagues of our Directors Section wound through the lobby for checkin and arriving throughout the day. Thank you to all of our sponsors, exhibitors, volunteers, event staff, and attendees for consistently raising the bar and making this event such a reliable success!

Thank You Workshop Sponsors & Exhibitors!

Sponsors

Platinum Gold Silver

Exhibitors

• All American Sports Material

• Altitude Recreation

• Aquaphalt

• Bobcat of the Rockies

• Buffalo Brand Seed

• CARRI

• Churchich Recreation, LLC

• DBC Irrigation Supply

• Golf & Sport Solutions

• Granite Seed & Erosion Control

• Mac Equipment, Inc.

• Musco Lighting

• Pioneer Contractor Services

• Power Turf Renovation, LLC

• Precision Concrete Cutting

• Recreation Plus

• Renner Sports Surfaces

• Rocky Mountain Playground Services

• Rocky Mountain Rec, Inc.

• Scienturfic Sod

• Star Playgrounds

• Target Specialty Products

• UniWest Denver, LLC

• Wilbur-Ellis Agribusiness

• Winterland Inc.