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Ultimate Park Makeover Complete!

White Center Heights re-opening What can happen in 168 hours when you have 1,500 committed volunteers & a generous donation from Starbucks?

27,000 square feet of sod can be laid
6000 plants can be planted
140 cubic yards of blackberry bushes can be removed
1,400 burritos can be eaten
You can build a new scenic gathering space for a thriving community with the help of a partner like the Starbucks Coffee Company

Visit our photo gallery and read up on our Starbucks Ultimate Park Makeover here

Carnation 4th of July Fireworks

Viewed from Tolt MacDonald Park | 4pm start

Live music, food, and a water slide, join the fun Wednesday July 4th.b

Visit Tolt's MacDonald's page here

Interested in camping at Tolt? Aside from tent, and RV camping yurts will be available for rent this summer, stay tuned.

Womens Triathlon at Five Mile Lake Park

Saturday June 30th

BuDu Racing is promoting the event. Also a great opportunity to visit the park and squeeze in a ball game or fire up a BBQ pit and have a picnic.b

Visit Five Mile Lake's amenities page here.

YMCA Summer Day Camp

Ravensdale Park & Gracie Hansen Community Center

Now that school is out are the kids looking for a place to play? From June 25th until August 31st the YMCA will be running their summer day camp at this beautiful King County Parks facility to learn more please visit seattleymca.org/summer.b

To visit Ravensdale's amenities page click here.25
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Cottage Lake Pool's New Slide
Cottage Lake Waterslide

Stop by Cottage Lake Park for an amazing view of the lake, a scenic walk along the loop trail, and now to have a spin on the spanking new slide.

To visit Cottage Lake's amenities page click here.

Backcountry Biking Urban Oasis

King County’s Youth Sports Facility Grant (YSFG) program is proud to support the Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club (BBTC) with a grant of $75,000. BBTC and volunteers are building, funding and maintaining a new mountain bike skills park located under the I-5 freeway between Seattle's Eastlake and Capital Hill neighborhoods.

The I-5 Colonnade Mountain Bike Park is the first of a new urban model for mountain bike facilities. The park, a total of 2 acres in size, will contain over 1.5 miles of trail and will be full of a wide range of technical trail features. For more information about this great new regional recreation amenity, visit www.bbtc.org/colonnade. To find out about similar projects where King County is partnering with BBTC to build new backcountry biking facilities, click here.

What other folks are saying about King County Parks

06/16/07, 1 1/2-Mile connector to provide link between 2 Eastside trails, Seattle Times
06/16/07, Happy trails to all of you, Seattle Times
06/14/07, Sims wants to pick up speed on land-swap deal, Seattle Times
06/14/07, Sims hopes to buy time for rails-for-trails, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
06/08/07, Happy Trails?, Shoreline Enterprise
06/06/07, Enumclaw artist's cows headline King County Fair, Enumclaw Courier-Herald
06/05/07, Widening the world of free Wi-Fi, Seattle Times

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