About us

Our Mission

Building on community creativity and inspiration, we mobilize resources to improve parks and trails on Bainbridge Island.

Our Vision

Bainbridge Island is a place with an abundance of community-inspired parks and trails enjoyed by all.

The Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to improving the Island’s parks and trails and to expanding recreational opportunities for all. The Parks & Trails Foundation is funded by private donors, grant sources, and contributions through One Call for All. We partner with the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District and other organizations committed to public parks and open space.

We focus the interest and enthusiasm of our community to parks and trails projects through:

  • Fundraising campaigns for parks and trails projects
  • Community initiatives and grant programs that provide capital funding for parks and trails
  • Supporting special stewardship programs that provide Bainbridge youths and college-age students with work-learn opportunities that improve our trails and parks
  • Development of new trail connections through easement agreements and donations by generous private property owners
  • Conservation and preservation of publicly accessible natural lands on Bainbridge Island

Our parks and trails preserve the soul of Bainbridge Island – the places we all share for recreation, reflection and fun.

Land Acknowledgement

“Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished.”

Chief Seattle  1854

We acknowledge that the land on which we gather is within the ancestral territory of the suq̀ʷabš “People of Clear Salt Water” (Suquamish People). Expert fisherman, canoe builders and basket weavers, the suq̀ʷabš live in harmony with the lands and waterways along Washington’s Central Salish Sea as they have for thousands of years. Here, the suq̀ʷabš live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors for future generations as promised by the Point Elliot Treaty of 1855.