Phillip & Annie Callahan Park

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General Park Information:

Phillip & Anne Callahan Park is a 25-acre Washoe County park without a restroom.


Amenities Include: 

Playground, horseshoes, picnic area, barbeque area, trails, and tables/benches.

 

Here is a link to Phillip & Anne Callahan Park on Washoe County’s website.

Callahan Park Sign

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Photo by: Jill Richardson

Park History:

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The Phillip and Annie Callahan Park is so named to honor the parents of the Callahan family who donated 25-acres to make the park possible. The beautiful, peaceful pine trees, variety of park amenities, and access to the Galena Creek Trail make this park a gem. The Nevada Recreation and Parks Society also thought so and granted it an award for design excellence.

 

But the wonder of this park goes back to the earliest days of Nevada’s settlement by ranchers and miners, and booms and busts of the Comstock Lode in nearby Virginia City.

 

Submit Your Park Stories and Photos! 

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Do you have personal photographs or stories about this park and are willing to share your memories with your community? Stories and photos can be recent adventures in the park, old memories of what the park used to be like, or fond remembrances of what this park has meant to you in the past. Sharing your photographs and memories will help to build our shared history of these important public places.

 

Click here to upload your photos and/or stories!

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Typical Flora and Fauna: 

The following are a few of our favorite highlights. 

See the community submission section below to view additional wildlife sightings found at this park, and submit you own favorite naturalist sightings on iNaturalist!

Flora:

Highlights:

What plants have you seen here?

Trees?

Flowers?

Shrubs?

Lichen or Mosses? 

Grasses?

Fauna:

Highlights:

What animals have you seen here?

Birds?

Amphibians?

Arthropods?

Mammals?

Reptiles?

Submission Box for Biodiversity Sightings:  

Click here to document your own biodiversity observations from this park on iNaturalist.

Any observations noted along the Truckee River, please share with the 

Truckee River Guide project here.  

 

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Biodiversity Submissions:

Community Stories and Photos:

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Callahan Park

Tell us your stories about this park or share your photographs to add to the growing record of our shared park history! 

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Callahan Park

Tell us your stories about this park or share your photographs to add to the growing record of our shared park history! 

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Callahan Park

Tell us your stories about this park or share your photographs to add to the growing record of our shared park history! 

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Callahan Park History Researcher

Jill Richardson

Jill is the History Researcher for this park. She has dedicated time to research and document the history of the Callahan Park and region. Thank you Jill for your commitment to our parks and historic preservation!

Volunteer Researcher:

To learn more about volunteering for this Project, click here.

Enjoy history? Then consider volunteering as a History Researcher today! 

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Like plants and animals? Then volunteer as our Biodiversity Researcher!

Researchers Needed:

Parks Rephotography Site Steward:

To learn more about the Parks Rephotography Project, click here.

Nathan Daniel was the Callahan Park Site Steward for the Parks Rephotography Project.

 

To view this collection click here.

Nathan Daniel:

 

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