Category: Partnerships
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Timber Outdoor Music Festival 2015 – Secret Early Bird Presale, yo!
We want you to be first in line. Save $20 on tickets to Timber! with our Secret Early Bird Presale. $55 Early Bird Tickets are On Sale NOW! Click Here to purchase tickets But hurry. This special price is only good until March 21! We know you enjoy our events and want to make sure…
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Chinook Bend – Restoration’s golden child. A birder’s rave.
According to our website: “The Chinook Bend Natural Area is located two miles north of the City of Carnation, on NE Carnation Farm Road. This 59-acre property lies within the Snoqualmie River’s 100-year floodplain and is surrounded by river on three sides. The site contains rich habitat for many fish and wildlife species in its…
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Cirque du Soleil – KURIOS: Behind the scenes
The all-encompassing steampunk design is a gift providing endless new delights. KURIOS opens tonight! Hopefully your tickets have been secured, because this amazing show only runs until March. Check out what SFGate has to say about this run. We spent a little time behind the curtain yesterday. Pretty amazing how much goes on underneath a…
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Ravensdale: Multi-purpose sports complex beats the boss level
Through some serious sweat-equity on Ravensdale Park Foundation’s part and a partnership with KC Parks’ Community Partnerships and Grants program, the new multi-purpose sports complex just got multi-purpose-complex-y-er. Practices have already begun, and games will start this February. A grand opening celebration will take place sometime this spring. Hopefully the lost Chicago White Sox souls won’t try and crash it.…
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Ugly Sweater Run @ Marymoor Park
This is what an Ugly Sweater Run looks like. To see more, click here…
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Otter release at Maury Island Marine Park
PAWS forwarded us some photos of a recent release at our Maury Island Marine Park. Try not to squee yourself.
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It’s been sonorous, Pianos in the Parks!
What happens when twenty pianos are put in twenty parks for one month? Go to the KEXP/Seattle Center Concerts at the Mural tonight and find out! The winner of the Pianos in the Parks video contest, Mindie Lind, will be opening tonight’s Mural show at 5:00. King County Parks was a proud partner in this…
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Timber! Outdoor Music Fest 2014
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Launch of Pianos in the Parks
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Microsoft – Intern Day of Caring
Microsoft was kind enough to loan their interns, and they were out in force in King County Parks yesterday. Parksmonkey made it around to document their work at Tanner Landing, Redmond Ridge and along the Burke-Gilman Trail. Enjoy, and for more photos hit up our Flickr feed.
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Movies @ Marymoor: Frozen
What: Live entertainment, trivia & FROZEN on the BIG screen Where: Marymoor Park When: Wednesday, July 9th @7:00pm Going down tonight. “Hi, everyone. I’m Olaf and I like warm hugs!”
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2014 Washington Brewer’s Festival
“America’s hop basket” that’s what Paste Magazine has dubbed our state. The Washington Brewer’s Fest has made their top 10 list of Great Summer Beer Festivals, and since you live here you should probably attend, because the cross country trip for the other 9 could take a while. Starts today at 4 p.m. and runs…
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2014 Duthie Hill Mountainbike Festival
To see more photos of the event, visit
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2014 Big Backyard 5K presented by Group Health
Almost 1200 people came out to Marymoor Park on Sunday to support King County Parks! The Big Backyard 5k presented by Group Health raised approximately $50,000 for Parks.
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Dig this! Breaking Ground for Phase 2 at Ravensdale Park
The kids were ready to break ground as soon as they spied the shovels lined up; it’s hard to contain their excitement as they watch their hometown fields unfold into a top-notch sports complex. King County Parks, along with Ravensdale Park Foundation (RPF) and the City of Maple Valley, hosted a groundbreaking ceremony of the second phase of the Ravensdale Park redevelopment…
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Squak Mountain celebration
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This is what progress looks like at Redmond Ridge Park!
This is a recent picture taken of work underway at the upper multi-purpose field at Redmond Ridge Park in Redmond. Final seaming and striping of the turf fileds was completed over the weekend, now it’s just awaiting dry weather in order to do infill installation and grooming! The lower baseball field was completed a couple weeks ago. This…
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Native tree planting at Soaring Eagle Park
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Timber! tix on sale now
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Black Forest (29,930,000 tons)
Artist Hans Baumann, KC Parks staff and volunteers begin work on the installation at Cougar Mountain. Want to help? Hans is looking for more volunteers this Saturday. If you are interested, follow this link.
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Cavalia’s Odysseo setup at Marymoor Park
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Redmond Ridge ball fields
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Re-vegetatin’ along Soos Creek Trail
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Great galloping geldings, it’s a Cavalia ticket give-away!
We’ve got tickets yes we do, we’ve got tickets, how ’bout you? No? Well then, you better enter our Cavalia ticket give-away, so you can win one of three pairs of tickets to opening night on Wednesday, February 19! Here’s how it works Between now and Feb 10 at midnight, sign up for the King…
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Completing the cycle of a living Christmas tree
We survived the holiday season and we’re rounding the corner to spring, which means prime planting time for some awesome habitat restoration! A number of upcoming volunteer planting work parties has got us especially excited because we have a large donation of native plants and trees coming our way from Swansons Nursery. King County Parks…
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Camp Long Challenge Course in West Seattle growing like a tree!
The number of youths participating in the team experience of the Challenge Course at Camp Long has been going up, up and up! King County Parks partnered with Seattle Parks, and the Washington State University Extension 4-H program in providing a $50,000 Youth Sports Facilities Grant to build the expanded challenge course. In 2011, the…
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Take a journey with Cavalia’s “Odysseo” in Marymoor Park
Who’s got horses, acrobats, and the White Big Top tent coming to their park? We do! We do! Cavalia is back on Feb 26, bringing “Odysseo”, their second production, to Marymoor Park. Just in time for the holidays, get your tickets now, online at www.cavalia.net or at at 1-866-999-8111. Hosting touring national acts like Cavalia…
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Your holiday tree will actually say ‘thank you’
For many people, the labor of dragging a tree inside your home, anchoring it to a base and trimming it from top to bottom is an annual tradition that brings great joy during the holiday season. This year, what if you tried something different? What if your tree was alive? Yes, actually alive and yes,…
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The kids are happy and so are we!
You don’t have to tell these kids twice to go outside and play, even in the rain. Besides, everyone knows that rain makes riding down slides that much more fun! Today in Fremont, King County Parks took part in a playground dedication at B.F. Day Elementary where kids, parents, teachers and supporting community groups came…