Tag: burke-gilman trail
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Why Trails?
Tell us about regional trails: Do you use them? If not, why not? What do you like about them? How could they be better? We want to hear about your experience on our regional trails – take this four-minute survey to help us understand how we can improve regional trails in the future. Regional trails…
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Bike Everywhere Day 2018: Ducklings, rabbits and swag
Thank you everyone for coming out. Another great year of smiling faces, and randanimals (random animals – get it?)
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2017 Bike Everywhere
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Reminder: Short detour starting tomorrow on the Burke-Gilman Trail in Lake Forest Park for hazardous tree removal
Beginning Oct. 26, King County Parks will set up temporary detours around segments of the Burke-Gilman Trail in Lake Forest Park while crews begin removing 40 hazardous Lombardy Poplar trees. The hazardous trees are located along the Burke-Gilman Trail between Ballinger Way Northeast and Northeast 165th Street in Lake Forest Park. The temporary closure will…
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Trail Alert: Burke-Gilman
Crews will be ditching along the Gilman Trail from the 10th through the 21st, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. They have begun at the City of Seattle line (near Lake Forest Park) and will proceed east from there down the trail. There will be heavy equipment involved, so portions of the trail may be closed…
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Field notes: Keeping your trails clean safe and open without the use of gnomes
As much as we’d all like to believe that gnomes are trained and disciplined enough to maintain our parks, the reality is that they are unskilled labor (with no basis in reality). On the other hand, King County Parks employees are tangible human beings, not mythical fantasy creatures, and they take care of a large swath…
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Trail alert: Burke-Gilman
A short stretch of King County’s Burke-Gilman Trail through Lake Forest Park will be closed today Tuesday Jan. 13, as crews remove a large cottonwood tree that is suddenly leaning across the trail near the pedestrian bridge on the 17100 block of Ballinger Way NE. No detour is available while this emergency tree removal operation…
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Trail alert: Burke-Gilman
Week of the 17th, trail maintenance between NE 145th and NE 147th may cause 15 min delays. Detour will be available.
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Random photo post: Burke-Gilman Trail
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Ebb & Flow Roller Disco Playlist
We’re taking requests. You have a song you think evokes roller disco? Hand it over.
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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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Trail Photo Contest: King County’s regional trails through your eyes
What do you see along King County’s 175-mile Regional Trails System? Share it with us and your photo could make the next cover of the regional trails map! You’ve got until September 28 to submit your photo via our Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/rtsmapcovercontest/. Here’s how it works: 1. AM I ELIGIBLE? King County Parks employees, their…
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Trail Alert: Construction and New Additions
Summertime means construction and lots of action on our regional trails; here’s the latest scoop! Construction Alerts From August 4 – 25, King County will be repairing scour damage around the southern pier and southern bank of Gold Creek, near the Sammamish River Trail at the bridge south of the NE 124th Street and east…
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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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2014 Bike to Work Day
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Catch your rolling high-five on Bike to Work Day
You read it here first! We are handing out rolling high-fives to any and all cyclists that cruise by one of our cheering stations on the annually celebrated Cascade Bicycle Club’s F5 Bike to Work Day happening this Friday. We are excited to see every make and model of bikes from recumbent to tandems and…
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Art comes in all shapes and sizes
We are excited to be working in partnership with 4Culture to do an artistic makeover of the Wayne Tunnel on the Bothell section of the Burke-Gilman Trail. More than 2 million people ride through this gray, concrete tunnel every year, which makes it the perfect place to spread a little joy across a 250 ft.…
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The Long Walk in retrospect
A great video that captures an experience from Golden Gardens Park to Snoqualmie Falls http://bit.ly/XZBM9p
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Come celebrate the reopening of the Burke-Gilman Trail!
Join us on March 13 at NE 165th St and the trail. Ribbon cutting ceremony will begin shortly after 4 p.m. Learn more about the construction project and all the awesomeness of the newly redeveloped segment!
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Random photo post: Along the Burke-Gilman Trail
Lake Washington along the Burke-Gilman Trail, a photo by kingcountyparks on Flickr. Lake Washington as seen from the Burke-Gilman Trail
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Burke-Gilman Trail update
Last week’s snow and ice made things difficult for lots of people in King County – including the crew that has been putting the finishing touches on the major reconstruction of the County’s Burke-Gilman Trail through Lake Forest Park. The good news: We’re done with the paving, retaining walls, drainage, fencing and signage along this…
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Field Notes: Reports from The Long Walk
Our very own Cristina Gonzalez, intrepid deputy finance manager, decided to tag along on The Long Walk, a 45-mile pedestrian adventure from Puget Sound to Snoqualmie Falls along King County’s Regional Trails System. Sponsored by 4Culture and led by artist Susan Robb, this is the trek’s second year. From Thursday, July 28 – Sunday, July…
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Trail alert: Burke-Gilman Trail
We will be doing major improvements along a segment of the Burke-Gilman Trail starting this June. Updates will be frequent, so please stay tuned. In the meantime, if you would like more details, visit the Burke-Gilman construction project page, and or read the recent article by the Seattle Times. We apologize for the temporary inconvenience…