Who Knew? Every city in the Greenway is different, and each has a compelling story as well as fun trivia. Cities in the Greenway range in size from Beaux Arts with 299 residents to Seattle with 608,660. Seattle and Ellensburg were the two earliest cities to incorporate in 1869 and 1883 respectively. Sammamish is...
Who Knew? City Fun Facts
While many people think of the Greenway as being about trails, parks, and open space, it is also a place where cities matter! Cities are essential to the Greenway Trust’s work of creating a high quality of life for people in this region. The vast majority of people in the Greenway live, work, and play in...
If you read the Seattle Times article on the 13th of February, you may have already heard about a new citizen led movement to create family-friendly streets where everyone feels comfortable biking, walking, and playing. For me, this movement is personal. When I bike around Seattle or other communities by myself, I feel confident and safe...
A little more than 20 years ago, a group of visionaries came together to make a plan. The plan was to create a Greenway along Interstate 90. With lots of hard work, dedication and collaboration, this dream has become reality. We have an incredible Greenway in our backyards, complete with networks of trails, open...
I had been volunteering off and on with the Greenway for a year when I met a volunteer named Amy Spens. She really inspired me to get more involved with the Greenway. At the time, I was a sophomore in high school and she was a senior. She had just completed an internship with...
Did you know that the Mountains to Sound Greenway is not only a beautiful landscape of working farms and forests, vibrant communities, and places to hike and bike but also a fun place to explore if you’re just itching to get out on the road and see something new? It’s easy to do along...
Have you heard of the Homeschool Stewardship Squad? They are a group of homeschoolin’ moms and kids who get together to focus on stewardship through volunteering. I had a lot of fun working with them earlier this month. This is a new partnership between the Homeschool Stewardship Squad, the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust,...
Just this past week, the Greenway education staff was joined by a few Greenway board members for a tour of the Brightwater Treatment Plant. We came away impressed by our region’s efforts to preserve clean water and efforts to educate the public. Although not technically located in the Mountains to Sound Greenway (we made the...
Since arriving on November 7th, I have had a blast working with the Mountains to Sound Greenway. I am part of an AmeriCorps National Civilian CommunityCorps (NCCC) crew which is a group of young people, ages 18-24, who travel the west coast working with all sorts of different non-profits as part of their AmeriCorps commitment. There are...