Page 8 – Mountains To Sound Greenway Trust

Greenway Trust Priority Area:

Upper Yakima Basin

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Parks and Open Spaces, Picnic or Day Use Areas

This 117 acre riverfront park offers swimming, boating, volleyball, and picnicking along the scenic Yakima River.

Greenway Trust Priority Area:

Middle Fork Snoqualmie Valley

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Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites, Parks and Open Spaces, Trails

This wilderness covers over 414,000 acres in the Okanagon-Wenatchee and Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. It contains more than 700 lakes and mountain ponds, rugged creeks, and open meadows. It can be accessed by 47 trailheads and over 600 miles of trails. The Alpine Lakes Wilderness sits at the heart of the Mountains to Sound...

Greenway Trust Priority Area:

Upper Yakima Basin

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Parks and Open Spaces, Picnic or Day Use Areas

In addition to picnic tables and open space, Wye Park provides easy access to the interesting museums and shops that Cle Elum has to offer. Alternatively you can head north on the Coal Mines Trail. Cle Elum is also a great jumping off point for further flung adventures in the beautiful Teanaway area. In...

Greenway Trust Priority Area:

Upper Yakima Basin

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Parks and Open Spaces, Picnic or Day Use Areas

While once stocked, the levy separating these ponds from the Yakima River has been breached creating off channel rearing habitat – Yakima River fishing regulations apply. The adjoining Hanson Ponds Park site hosts a disc golf course.

Greenway Trust Priority Area:

Upper Yakima Basin

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Parks and Open Spaces, Picnic or Day Use Areas

Cle Elum’s City Park amenities include a covered area with electricity and lighting, picnic tables, restrooms, playground, horseshoe pits, a skate park, and a basketball court. All amenities are available on a first come, first served basis.

Greenway Trust Priority Area:

Upper Yakima Basin

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Parks and Open Spaces

Cle Elum

Cle Elum’s Volunteer Fire Department runs this park, open for day use only. Amenities include a covered area, picnic tables, and horseshoe pits.

Greenway Trust Priority Area:

Upper Yakima Basin

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Campgrounds

Lodging on the Yakima River including full hook up sites (including sewer), water-electric-cable sites, tent sites, cabins, and numerous amenities. Campground guests may use a crushed rock boat launch for free; others may use it for a daily fee.

Greenway Trust Priority Area:

Urban Communities

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Museums and Education Centers, Parks and Open Spaces, Picnic or Day Use Areas, Trails

This amazing Seattle city park contains miles of trails, beaches, old growth forest, a native plant garden, boat launch options, and more! The lobe of Seward Park is a distinctive peninsula in Lake Washington and home to a rare urban patch of old growth forest. The Coast Salish referred to the peninsula as “skEba’kst”...

Greenway Trust Priority Area:

Snoqualmie Valley

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Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites, Parks and Open Spaces

Railroad Park showcases a massive old growth Douglas Fir log sheltered underneath a preserved Weyerhaeuser Mill building. It also offers a gazebo with picnic tables and historic gardens and interpretive signs about the history of Snoqualmie.

Greenway Trust Priority Area:

Urban Communities

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Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites, Museums and Education Centers, Parks and Open Spaces

The park provides access to green space and the water and celebrates the cultural, maritime, and industrial heritage of the city and region.