Ensuring the future:

Rotary Storyland & Playland continues to provide affordable entertainment to families and children across the valley. We desire to ensure that this invaluable part of Fresno’s history continues to fulfill its mission for the next 50 years. We are excited about the future of these Fresno treasures but know that we need to reconnect the central valley to our mission and vision. With expenses continuing to rise in all areas taking the opportunity to reconnect is more important now than ever.


Reconnect

It may be that it has been several years since you have been to Rotary Storyland & Playland but that you recall some wonderful memories as a child or with your own children at these magical places. While moving north continues to be the trend in the Fresno/Clovis community, Rotary Storyland & Playland is committed to continuing to provide an experience unattainable anywhere else in the central valley at Roeding Park in southwest Fresno. We desire to reconnect with the Central Valley to celebrate the past and ensure a healthy future for Storyland & Playland. We ultimately see this happening in three key ways.

Partnership
We are looking to reconnect the Central Valley to our mission. We continue to provide affordable entertainment to families and children. Many families in the central valley are unable to take their family to major theme parks but Storyland & Playland offers a very affordable alternative. New partners are needed to help us uphold and support this important mission.

Time
Further we are seeking to reconnect our community to Storyland & Playland by the giving of their time. We continue to need volunteers to help maintain these two treasures and to help keep up their beauty. We recognize that time is a very important commodity to everyone but it will take the dedication of hundreds to keep Storyland & Playland beautiful for generations to come.

Resources
For Rotary Storyland & Playland to continue to fulfill its mission it will require a significant commitment of resources from our partners around the valley. There seems to be a misconception that “Measure Z” money is to be shared with Storyland & Playland; this couldn’t be further from the truth. Storyland & Playland currently doesn’t receive any funding from “Measure Z” or the City of Fresno. Whether it be cash donations or gifts “in kind,” donated resources will be required for the mission of Storyland & Playland to advance in years to come.



While most of us can recall a ride on the train at Playland, or hearing the fairytale story’s at Storyland while we were children, new generations of children are being captured today by these same experiences. Storyland & Playland continues to give children and families an escape into fantasy and fun. Where do you fit in giving back so new generations can continue to experience Storyland & Playland? How can you reconnect to the mission of Storyland & Playland so that they do not become extinct? We urge you to partner with us and to share your time and resources to continue these important valley institutions. Please consider donating to Storyland & Playland today.