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Strawberry Hill Bike Park will break ground in April
Strawberry Hill Bike Park, the island’s first-ever dedicated bike park, will break ground in April. About $110,000 must be raised to complete bike park (estimated cost $416,000) for a fall 2025 opening, with fundraising by the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation.
“This is it – we are at the ‘Send to […]
Nature Counts! Bainbridge Island Environmental Conference, April 13
Nature Counts!, a preparation for the City Nature Challenge, is the subject of the 2025 Environmental Conference, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, April 13, at IslandWood.
Register today at https://www.sustainablebainbridge.org/programs/biec/
This year’s Environmental Conference is a celebration of community science that […]
Celebrate Earth Month in April
April is Celebrate Trees! Earth Month on Bainbridge Island
April is Earth Month on Bainbridge Island 2025! Celebrate with activities and events for all ages for Earth Day and Arbor Day during the entire month of April and beyond.
Sustainable Bainbridge, in partnership with many Bainbridge […]
Registration open for Trillium Trail Run, May 10
Run for the trails! The Trillium Trail Run 10K/5K and Kids Fun Run returns to Bainbridge Island Saturday, May 10, a benefit to acquire, build and maintain new Bainbridge Island trails.
The Trillium Trail Run is presented by the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation.
Early-bird registration for the timed event […]
Foundation, Land Trust launch campaign to preserve Grand Forest East
The Bainbridge Island Land Trust with the support of the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation have launched a campaign to raise funds to protect 39 acres at Grand Forest East, allowing purchase by the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District.
The Park District on February 21, 2025, announced its intent […]
Day of Remembrance stewardship at the Exclusion Memorial
Gratitude for all who turned out for the annual Day of Remembrance volunteer stewardship day at the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial on Feb. 19, in community with our Japanese American neighbors and in support of Bainbridge Island’s monument to civil rights at Pritchard Park. […]
BURT 100 ‘Ultra’ run raises $5K for Bainbridge Island trails
The drive is, in their own estimation, “peculiar.” How else to describe the urge to run 100 miles on Bainbridge Island trails – nonstop, overnight, and this year in freezing weather – without, say, a bear on your heels?
It’s a fair question, says Chris Heiden, who co-founded the Bainbridge Ultra Running Team […]
Neighbors celebrate new Arbor Trail
Trails connect Bainbridge Island parks, schools, neighborhoods, even families.
When Sandra McIver moved to Bainbridge Island, she and her husband settled at West Port Madison, and her daughters and their families at Agate Point – neighborhoods geographically close, yet historically never linked. So even a quick visit from one household to […]