Community Profile

Pledge Summary

Clifton Park is a town in New York’s Capital District with a population of nearly 38,000. The Town is situated along the Mohawk River and the Erie Canalway National Historic Corridor, in southern Saratoga County and has more than 4,000 acres of active farmland and more than 2,000 acres of town-owned parks and nature preserves, in this suburban community. The Town of Clifton Park is committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with its record to date of managing multiple meadows for pollinator habitat at town nature preserves and other town properties, partnering with youth on their creating an educational pollinator-habitat public art mural at the Town’s Transfer Station with its demonstration pollinator meadow habitat, supporting pollinator-friendly community gardens at neighborhood parks, offering natural landscaping courses to the public with the Northeast Organic Farming Association and the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Library to educate about pesticide-free landscaping for homes and businesses with the Town’s GREEN Committee, and earning five-years-in-a-row designation as a “Tree City USA” through efforts of the Town’s Tree Committee. The Town of Clifton Park looks forward to collaborating with community groups, schools, and the overall public and engaging residents with creating more pollinator-friendly habitats through the community.