Dear Tree, With Love

Nominate Your Favorite Tree!

Tell us why you love your tree! What makes it special to you or your community?

Share your story in any creative way you like:

  • Write a poem
  • Write a letter to your tree
  • Take a photo
  • Create artwork
  • Make a video

How to submit:

  1. Post your entry on Instagram using #NHVTreeLove, or
  2. Email your materials to Newhaven.uri@gmail.com

Deadline: April 1, 2026

Crowd sourced voting April 1st - April 10th. Help us choose the top 12 photo submissions of New Haven trees to be featured in a 2027 Trees of New Haven Calendar. Winners for the calendar contest will be asked to verify the tree’s New Haven address and announced April 19th. Everyone who participates will get a calendar. Winners will be honored with a T-Shirt at Rock-to-Rock on April 25th. 

Dear Tree, With Love is a joint campaign between New Haven Parks and URI to celebrate trees and the ways they bring communities together. Stay up to date on more announcements and events to celebrate New Haven’s Urban Forest by following @newhavenparks and @urbanresources

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Request a free street tree at uri.yale.edu/request-tree.

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Urban and Community Forest Master Plan: New Haven Parks is creating a master plan that will serve as a vision for the management of our urban forest for the next 50 years. Please email Tree Warden Annie Mixsell at amixsell@newhavenct.gov if you would like to be added to a contact list for updates on this initiative.

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Save the Date for these Tree-mendous Days Ahead:

  • Saturday, April 18 – Tree Run 2026. Register for this fun, free 10K that will feature special and notable trees of New Haven, including some of the #NHVTreeLove favorites. 
  • Sunday, April 19 – Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival
  • Friday, April 24 – Arbor Day, several events across the city
  • Saturday, April 25 – Rock to Rock Earth Day Bike Ride
  • Saturday, May 9 – Wake up the Green Tree Planting
  • Saturday, May 30 – Connecticut Tree Climbing Competition at Lighthouse Point Park