Tag: island center forest

  • Check out the beautifully crafted wetland viewing platform at Island Center Forest

    Check out the beautifully crafted wetland viewing platform at Island Center Forest

    A new wetland viewing platform has been installed at the Island Center Forest Natural Area on Vashon Island. Visitors can park at the 188th St. Trailhead and walk less than 100 yards from the parking lot to access the platform. Special thanks to our Backcountry Trail Crew for their hard work and creativity in building…

  • Park Alert! Limited deer hunting opens Oct 12 at Island Center Forest

    Take note! From October 12 -31, Island Center Forest will be open to deer hunting for a limited season, and no other access will be permitted on 200 acres of the park. While hunting will be allowed on the former state lands that now make up Island Center Forest, hunting will NOT be permitted on…

  • Give me shelter

      Island Center Forest’s new “forest cathedral” shelter was designed and built by Nathan Enzian of Fifth Bench Design and Build, on Vashon Island.  The shelter is a timber-frame design that uses old school joinery methods. All of the Douglas-fir posts and beams come from local Vashon forests and were milled at the Vashon Forest…

  • Dog walking at Island Center Forest and Taylor Mountain

    If you have a dog, you’ve probably realized by now that King County is full of fun places where dogs and their human companions can go and romp around in the outdoors.  Here at King County Parks, we love dogs (and their people).  In fact, our very own Marymoor Park, which features a 40-acre off-leash…

  • Add some learnin’ to your next Island Center Forest visit.

    King County Parks in partnership with the Friends of Island Center Forest, which =’s the Vashon Forest Stewards, Vashon Island Horse Assoc, Vashon Audubon, and the Vashon Land Trust commissioned Vashon resident Sandra Noel to create 6 new interpretive signs along the trails at ICF.  They were created to help educate visitors about the site’s…

  • You’re either Vash-on or Vash-off…

    …as the locals are fond of saying. To understand it, you need to spend some time on the island, and while you are there, swing by Island Center Forest and observe all that is the new ICF interpretive signs. Glorious! The kiosks were constructed by our partner Vashon Forest Stewards, and the art courtesy Sandra…

  • If you can’t bring the outdoors to the kids…

    …bring the kids to the outdoors. Am I right? Sarah Wright was out at Island Center Forest with students from the Homestead School on Vashon Island today. The kids were learning about what these lands (natural lands, and parks) mean to all of us and how we go about keeping and maintaining them. To learn…

  • 1,000+ trees planted at Island Center Forest

    1,000+ trees planted on Saturday! Thank you to everyone that made it out to help accomplish this goal on a wet and wild Saturday at Island Center Forest on Vashon. To learn more about this pilot carbon sequestration project, visit here. If you are interested in our next volunteer event(s), swing over to the volunteer…

  • Vashon Island + Island Center Forest + Planting Trees = Weekend Getaway!

    Weekend getaways are fun, especially when they’re in your big backyard. Grab a ferry, head to Vashon and help King County plant trees on Saturday, Jan 30th from 10 am to 2 pm at Island Center Forest. This is part of a pilot project that is exploring the carbon sequestration potential of healthy soils through…

  • Random photo post: Island Center Forest