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Sign up for a fall work party

Sign up for a fall work party

Conservation Work Party

Where: Strawberry Hill Park, 7666 Highschool Road NE

When: Saturday, Oct. 14 (2nd Saturday), 10:00a-12:00p

What: Join the Park District, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Gear Grinders, and the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation this fall, preparing the site of the future mountain bike park for new trails and features. Projects will include removing invasive species, building habitats, and planting native plants.

Well-suited for children ages six and up who are comfortable using small hand tools and walking off trail on uneven surfaces.

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Trails Work Party

Where: Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve

When: Saturday, Oct. 21 (3rd Saturday), 10:00a-12:00p

What: Join the Park District’s trails team, the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation at Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve this fall, maintaining trail surfacing, improving trail drainage, and closing social trails in sensitive wildlife habitat.

These work parties are well suited for children ages eight and up who are comfortable using some small hand tools and […]

Sign up for a fall work partyDouglas2023-10-13T15:09:47-07:00

Stop weeds – brush those boots before you hike

Stop weeds – brush those boots before you hike

Brush your boots before you hike? It’s good policy, and good trail hygiene, catching the spread of invasive weeds and seeds before they’re tromped all over trails and parks.

To that end, you’ll find new boot-brush stations at two island trailheads: Gazzam Lake Preserve (Deerpath Lane) and Blakely Harbor Park (3-T Road). Two more are on the way, at Grand Forest West (Miller Road) and another at Gazzam Lake (Marshall Road trailhead, this one an Eagle Scout project and also funded by a Parks & Trails Foundation grant).

“They’re exactly like what people might on their front porch to scrape mud off their boots before they head inside,” says Morgan Houk, volunteer program manager for Bainbridge Metro Parks. “They can be used coming in and out of trail systems to catch invasive weeds – especially in the wintertime, when we tend to […]

Stop weeds – brush those boots before you hikeDouglas2023-08-25T09:19:44-07:00

New south trail entrance for Gazzam Lake Preserve

New south trail entrance for Gazzam Lake Preserve

Gazzam Lake Preserve has a new south entrance. The Summer Trails Crew put the finishing touches on a new trailhead from Deerpath Lane last week, along with 700 feet of all-new trail through the woods.

Visitors to the park will find the new trailhead at what’s presently marked as the Peters Trail entrance, to the right of the Deerpath parking area as you face west. Newly widened, the path runs off into the woods as before, but now also forks left to a newly built trail running west. This new trail meets Gazzam Lake’s main path at the Veterane trailhead.

The park’s current Deerpath entrance (more road than trail) will be abandoned, as Kitsap PUD fences off the water towers and makes other changes in the area.

The Summer Trails Crew wrapped up the three-week Gazzam Lake project last week with final graveling and compaction. […]

New south trail entrance for Gazzam Lake PreserveDouglas2021-08-24T12:14:38-07:00