Park City volunteers can choose from 44 service projects Saturday, Sept. 19, when Serve Park City hosts its third annual day of service at City Park.

The event has grown each year. In 2024, about 900 volunteers tackled 30 projects. In 2025, roughly 1,200 volunteers worked on 35. This year, 39 nonprofits are offering 44 projects, and organizers are seeking 1,200 volunteers, according to the Park Record.

The event also serves as a 9/11 remembrance, honoring the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A morning ceremony will feature the Summit County Sheriff's Posse, bagpipes, Taps and a "Last Call" ceremony performed by the Park City Police Department. A first responder will deliver a message on service.

"Service breeds kindness, and it helps us unite as a people," board member Vicki Plumb told the Park Record on Sept. 15. "You will get much more out of this event than you will ever put in, and I know that from experience."

Karen Marriott, who founded Serve Park City and serves as its president, said the organization hopes the spirit of service extends beyond one day. Co-president Danny Glasser helps lead the nonprofit, which became official in 2025 after Marriott initially funded it herself.

Projects range from physically demanding work to quieter tasks. Volunteers can remove graffiti at the Alliance Mine with the Park City Museum, build fences at Habitat for Humanity's ReStore or pull barbed wire at Summit County's 910 Ranch. Salt Lake-based WasteLess Solutions needs help building a community fridge shelter near Miner's Hospital at City Park. Lighter options include letter writing, sorting eyeglasses and quilting at the Blair Education Center at Park City Hospital.

On KPCW's "Local News Hour" on Aug. 28, Marriott described new additions to the project list, including the WasteLess shelter build. All 44 projects are color-coded online to show which are child-friendly and which require physical labor.

How to participate

Volunteers gather at City Park at 8 a.m. for a free breakfast donated by The Market, Lucky Ones Coffee, Julie Hopkins Real Estate and other local sponsors. The remembrance ceremony follows. Service shifts start after 9 a.m. and wrap up by noon, when volunteers return to City Park for pizza from Domino's and cookies from Auntie Em's Baked Goods. Chasing Atlas Travel donated snacks for all project sites.

Registration is required. Spots are first-come, first-served. Sign up at justserve.org/ServeParkCity. For year-round volunteer opportunities, visit serveparkcity.org.