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SAVE THE DATE: Waypoint Woods Community Conversation, March 6

SAVE THE DATE: Waypoint Woods Community Conversation, March 6

Explore Waypoint Woods and share your ideas for Winslow’s next gateway park, at a Community Conversation and park tour, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, March 6.

The event begins with a presentation of preliminary park designs at the Bainbridge Island Rowing Stan Pocock Legacy Boathouse, 301 Shannon Drive in Waterfront Park. A walking tour of nearby Waypoint Woods follows.

Waypoint Woods is located at the corner of Olympic and Harborview drives, bounded by the Winslow Waterfront Trail and Waypoint plaza near the ferry terminal.

The Parks Foundation is leading a planning process, with Seattle-based AHBL land use and design firm, to improve the 3-acre park for neighborhood and visitor use.

Register today for Pritchard Park volunteer day Feb. 19

Join us for Pritchard Park Volunteer Work Day, 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 19, the Day of Remembrance.

Help beautify Pritchard Park in advance of 80 Years of Healing, March 30, 2022 observance of the forced wartime exclusion of Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island.

Please pre-register for this event

Feb. 19 is the annual Day of Remembrance for Executive Order 9066, which authorized the wartime exclusion. The Bainbridge community is invited to refresh and replant the Exclusion Memorial grounds and surrounding park. Pre-register for that event here.

What to bring: We suggest volunteers wear sturdy, close-toed shoes, long pants, work gloves and your favorite tools. Please also bring your own water bottle if you’d like one.

We will email you before the event with additional information, including the work plan and tasks.

COVID-19 Requirements

• All participants must respond to a COVID questionnaire prior to participating in the event

• Proof of vaccination and […]

Register today for Pritchard Park volunteer day Feb. 19Douglas2023-01-11T09:42:10-08:00

STO Sakai Pond Connector gets a warm welcome

STO Sakai Pond Connector gets a warm welcome

Great turnout for the STO Sakai Pond Connector dedication and Trail Mixer! If you’ve not walked this new trail yet, check it out and discover sublime Sakai Pond for yourself – and trails leading up into Sakai Park and beyond.

Thank you to the City of Bainbridge Island for partnering on this great dedication event, and planning forward with Bainbridge Metro Parks on the trails next leg north. Together, we’re building out our island’s public trails network to connect neighborhoods, parks, commercial and service centers, and transit for a better, greener island community.

STO Sakai Pond Connector gets a warm welcomeDouglas2022-02-10T22:50:43-08:00

STO Sakai Pond Connector ‘Trail Mixer’ is Nov. 3

STO Sakai Pond Connector ‘Trail Mixer’ is Nov. 3

Celebrate the new Sound To Olympics Trail Sakai Connector at a dedication and “trail mixer” event at 12 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3. The trailhead is at the northwest corner of the High School Road/SR-305 intersection near the Chevron station.

The event is hosted by the City of Bainbridge Island, the Bainbridge Island Parks Foundation and the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District. Light snacks will be served, including the Parks Foundation’s homemade “Because We Love Trail Mix.”

The Sakai Connector is the second Bainbridge Island leg of the Sound To Olympics Trail, a regional non-motorized trail that will link the Winslow ferry terminal with the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas.

The short paved connector runs from the intersection north to Sakai Park, where it links up with trails in the park’s wooded lower bowl. Those trails lead through the park, around scenic Sakai Pond and […]

STO Sakai Pond Connector ‘Trail Mixer’ is Nov. 3Douglas2021-10-21T12:28:37-07:00

Thanks for a splendid Moritani Community Picnic

Thanks for a splendid Moritani Community Picnic

Thanks to Buckshot String Band and all who made the Moritani Community Picnic such a great Labor Day afternoon. We’ll see you next year! SUPPORT MORITANI PRESERVE STEWARDSHIP

2021 Moritani Community Picnic

Thanks for a splendid Moritani Community PicnicDouglas2021-09-08T16:36:19-07:00

Watch this great video of the KidsUp! Grand Opening event

Watch this great video of the KidsUp! Grand Opening event

What a grand opening at KidsUp! The Next Generation of Play! Thanks to John McKenzie of Bainbridge Community Broadcasting for putting together this great video of the festivities, and all who attended and made this such a special day for our kids and families.

Watch this great video of the KidsUp! Grand Opening eventDouglas2021-09-08T21:19:31-07:00

‘It is spectacular’ – KidsUp! The Next Generation of Play is here, Sept. 4

‘It is spectacular’ – KidsUp! The Next Generation of Play is here, Sept. 4

Chris Cain would tell you, he had the easy part.

Designing KidsUp! The Next Generation of Play, the spectacular, super-inclusive new playground at Battle Point Park, didn’t take much more than brainstorming with parents and suggesting what might go where. Then he stood back and watched.

“My role was really just to put ideas on paper, and get it spatially organized,” says Cain, a landscape architect with Bainbridge Island’s Studio Hanson Roberts. “Normally when we do a design project, it takes months of planning, there’s packages of drawings to deliver… I sat in on meetings and did some sketches here and there.”

Well, there was a little more to it than that. But when the new playground opens on Sept. 4, kids of all ages and abilities will find a veritable wonderland of sight, sound, sensation and even scent in the wildflower and herb gardens, play features […]

‘It is spectacular’ – KidsUp! The Next Generation of Play is here, Sept. 4Douglas2021-09-01T12:42:14-07:00

Volunteer for new Conservation Work Parties in island parks

Volunteer for new Conservation Work Parties in island parks

The Park District has launched a new Conservation Work Parties series, tackling the creeping scourge of ivy and other invasive species.

Second Saturdays monthly, volunteers will visit a different park and bring down nuisance vines, uproot Scotch broom, and perform other ecological restoration.

The conservation events are being held in partnership with Weed Warriors, a longstanding advocacy and action group that brings expertise on spurge laurel and other lesser-known problem weeds.

“People are coming because they’re interested in learning more, and applying it to their own properties,” the Park District’s Morgan Houk says. “It’s a learning opportunity as much as a ‘get out and know your parks and volunteer’ opportunity.”

Conservation Work Parties mark a welcome return — and expansion — of volunteer activity in island parks, after a year lost to the pandemic.

The district’s popular monthly Trails Work Parties are […]

Volunteer for new Conservation Work Parties in island parksDouglas2021-08-24T12:05:44-07:00

KidsUp! The Next Generation of Play opens Sept. 4

KidsUp! The Next Generation of Play opens Sept. 4

A giant Ferry Boat play structure is the centerpiece as Bainbridge Island welcomes an imaginative, inclusive new playground at Battle Point Park

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – It’s time to play! KidsUp! The Next Generation of Play, an imaginative, inclusive new playground built around a giant Ferry Boat play structure, opens Sept. 4 at Battle Point Park on Bainbridge Island.

A 10 a.m. dedication will celebrate the playground opening, with music and food trucks planned for a day of excitement and fun for kids and families. The event is presented by the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District and Bainbridge Island Parks Foundation, and sponsored by Play Creations and Landscape Structures, Inc.

The playground centerpiece is the “M/V KidsUp!”, a custom-built, one-of-kind play structure that evokes the Puget Sound ferry fleet. The two-level, 47-foot-long ferry was designed and fabricated by Landscape Structures, Inc., equipment supplier for the playground.

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KidsUp! The Next Generation of Play opens Sept. 4Douglas2021-08-17T07:31:53-07:00

Great food, great weather, a great evening at Picnic For Parks

Great food, great weather, a great evening at Picnic For Parks

Thanks to all who joined us at Picnic For Parks this past Saturday. What a wonderful summer evening for a picnic!

We packed the picnics, you picked the parks, and our special green baskets turned up in parks all across the island. We’re grateful for all of the compliments we’ve heard from our picnickers. It was a special evening for our parks, and a memorable one.

This great fundraiser helps the Bainbridge Island Parks Foundation accomplish all the great things we have going on in Bainbridge parks: Summer Trails Crew, the soon-to-open KidsUp! Playground, stewardship at Blakely Harbor, Moritani Preserve and so many others. Thank you again.

And the great reviews are rolling in:

“We had a great night and the food was amazing! Thanks so much! Enjoyed our meal down at Fort Ward! Perfect weather!”

“Great fun!! We played games too. No one had been to this […]

Great food, great weather, a great evening at Picnic For ParksDouglas2021-07-28T10:25:46-07:00