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Campgrounds, Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites, Parks and Open Spaces, Picnic or Day Use Areas, Trails, Wildlife Information and Viewing Area

Washington’s first community forest offers striking views, recreation opportunities, and a chance to see conservation and sustainable forestry in action. Hikers, horseback riders, and mountain bikers may use the existing, unmaintained trails at their own risk until sanctioned trails are established through the Teanaway Community Forest Recreation Plan. The Teanaway Community Forest is home...

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Upper Yakima Basin

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Mt Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Kittitas County

This popular destination offers a 1.2-mile ADA-accessible loop trail and great views of the peaks of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. Photographers, picnickers, beginner hikers, and (in the winter) snowshoers enjoy the area. What’s now a beautiful pond once served as a gravel excavation pit for construction of the Sunset Highway and 1-90. That excavation...

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Upper Yakima Basin

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Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Kittitas County

The delightful Speelyi Beach on Lake Cle Elum provides good access for boating and fishing.

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Snoqualmie Valley

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26200 NE Stephens Street, 98019, Duvall

McCormick Park sits on the east bank of the Snoqualmie River adjacent to Snoqualmie Valley Trail. Park amenities include grass fields, trails, foot bridge, ADA accessible trails, and a sandbar along the river.

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Snoqualmie Valley

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37580 SE Winery Road, Snoqualmie

Snoqualmie Point Park offers an excellent view of the Snoqualmie Valley and Mount Si. The Greenway Trust played a key role in preserving these lands and building a community gathering place and trail. Since time immemorial through today, this land has been the home of the Snoqualmie People who have continually lived, fished, hunted,...

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Snoqualmie Valley

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Located along the East bank of the Snoqualmie River, Tolt MacDonald has picnic tables and fire-pits, overnight campsites, soccer fields, and a historic barn used for events. A 500-foot suspension bridge crosses the Snoqualmie River. The park’s wetlands offer great birdwatching, and are a key habitat for resident and migratory birds. Before white settlement,...

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Snoqualmie Valley

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Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites, Parks and Open Spaces, Picnic or Day Use Areas

This 410-acre farm and open space property preserves important agriculture, wildlife, open space, archaeological, and historic resources. The site includes a playground, trails, playfields, picnic areas, a farmstead, and a 1904 Queen Anne farmhouse. The open space of Tollgate Farm and the nearby Meadowbrook Farm was originally an expansive prairie tended by the Snoqualmie...

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Upper Yakima Basin

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Campgrounds, Picnic or Day Use Areas, Trails

Liberty Recreation Site, a small campground on William Creek just before the old mining town of Liberty, has 15 campsites each with a picnic table, parking area, and fire pit. The sites are spread out with good privacy. It also has two vault toilets and limited cell phone coverage.

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Upper Yakima Basin

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Set in dense old-growth evergreens surrounded by high mountains in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, this campground is a good place for family camping. There are two boat launches – one paved the other gravel. On busy summer weekends, the boat launch and day use parking areas fill up fast.

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Upper Yakima Basin

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Located in a mixed conifer forest on the southeast shore of Cle Elum Lake, Wish Poosh Campground offers 34 campsites suitable for RVs or tents. It also includes picnic sites and a boat launch that typically closes by mid-July as the lake is drawn down to provide irrigation in Yakima County.