King County Parks - Your Big Backyard

🎉 Fairwood, it’s time to celebrate! 🎉

Join us for the 6th Annual Fairwood Celebration at Petrovitsky Park on Friday, August 29 for a FREE day of fun for the whole community! 🌳

🏃 9:30 a.m. – Community Fun Run
🎪 10 a.m. – Family-friendly activities, vendors & food trucks
🎶 12 p.m. – Live music and more activities
🎬 8:30 p.m. – Big Backyard Movie: Zootopia 2

Come spend the day connecting with neighbors, enjoying the park, supporting local vendors, and celebrating what makes the Fairwood community so special.

📍 Petrovitsky Park
🎟️ FREE community event
📅 August 29

Learn more on our website at https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/local-services/governance-leadership/local-government-for-unincorporated-king-county/community-service-areas/fairwood-60th-anniversary

We learned so much at CHOMP!

Community organizations and sustainability experts of all kinds were there sharing their knowledge. Here's a few tips we thought worth sharing!

Have a sustainability tip of your own? Let us know down in the comments!

Want to get outdoors and help others do so too? King County Parks is soliciting proposals from interested and qualified suppliers to promote our Transit to Nature partnership with King County Metro.

This partnership covers 2 programs that help close the gap to outdoor access with public transit - Trailhead Direct and Community Van.

Visit the King County E-Procurement Portal to learn more at https://fa-epvh-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/fscmUI/faces/NegotiationAbstracts?prcBuId=300000001727151

Questions? Contact Mohammed El-Maadawy at [email protected], 206-477-8836.

Make the most of these summer days!☀️

August is filled with fun events happening across King County Parks. Check out the full lineup on our website at: https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dnrp/nature-recreation/parks-recreation/king-county-parks/get-involved/parks-events

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Text-based graphic showing a calendar of the events happening in the month of August. Events are listed as follows:

King County Events:
CHOMP! | 8/15

Volunteer Events:
Skyway Park | 8/22

Marymoor Concerts:
ZZ Top with Special Guest Cheap Trick | 8/11
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue And St. Paul & The Broken Bones | 8/19
NEEDTOBREATHE: The Long Surrender Tour | 8/21
Alison Krauss & Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas | 8/22

Partner Events:
Carnation Farmers Market | 8/11, 8/18, 8/25
Music in the Park | 8/13, 8/20, 8/27
Eastside Audubon - How Insects Help Birds Thrive | 8/15
Fairwood 60th Anniversary Celebration | 8/29

Movies at Marymoor:
Top Gun: Maverick 8/12
The Incredibles 8/18
The Princess Bride 8/26

Archaeology in the Park is canceled today, August 6, due to poor air quality. Thank you for understanding!

Only 4 more weekends to catch the bus Trailhead Direct bus to hiking trails in the Issaquah Alps and Mount Si!

It's been a joy seeing so many people taking public transportation to the trails these past few months and we're excited to finish out the summer strong. Plan your next hiking adventure on our website at https://trailheaddirect.org/

This project seeks to ease vehicle congestion, reduce safety hazards and expand access to hiking destinations along I-90. Trailhead Direct is provided by King County Metro, in partnership with King County Parks and Seattle Department of Transportation and sponsored by Amazon.

Did you know that much of Tolt-MacDonald Park was built to celebrate America's Bicentennial or 200th Anniversary??

The project started with John MacDonald, a Seattle banker and Boy Scout troop leader. His idea? Scouts would develop trails, picnic areas, and campsites on the west bank of Tolt River Park, and the U.S. military reserves would build a 500-foot pedestrian bridge across the river.

With $150,000 from King County in 1976, hundreds of volunteers from local Boy Scout troops gathered over six weekends to build five shelters, two large service centers, forty hike-in campsites, and assembled ten picnic tables.

The beloved suspension bridge was built in-part as a training exercise by Army Reserve’s 409th Engineering Company based out of Everett with assistance from the Marine Corps Reserve and a Canadian Field Engineering Squadron from Vancouver.

John MacDonald passed away from a heart attack before the project was completed and so the community dedicated the park to him. On June 26, 1976, hundreds gathered to celebrate Tolt River-John MacDonald Park with parades, speeches, and a time capsule to be opened in 100 years.

With routine maintenance over the last 50 years, this pedestrian bridge continues to connect the two sides of the park and will for many years into the future. Have you been to Tolt-MacDonald Park? What are your favorite memories there from the last 50 years? Let us know in the comments!