Interlaken Park

In case you are new to Volunteers for Outdoor Washington, the main focus of our group is maintaining and constructing trail. While our volunteers are often found working up in the I-90 corridor and on the Iron Goat Trail we also devote a fair amount of our time (especially in the winter months) to urban trail projects in Seattle.

From 2004-2006 VOW worked at Golden Gardens park, completing over 58 work parties and many miles of trail restoration.

This year we have partnered with the City of Seattle: Department of Parks and Recreation to help restore trails at Interlaken Park.

Interlaken Park is one of our original "Olmsted" (An early landscape architectural firm responsible for many prominent park designs through out our country, such as Central park N.Y) designed parks in Seattle. It is a hidden gem that is made up of 51.6 acres of forest habitat.

Since November 2006 at Interlaken we have had 13 work parties and 172 volunteer days for a total of 1010 work hours. As you can see from a few of these pictures our work so far has ranged from re-grading the trail so that it is more durable to heavy rains, removing harmful invasives such as Ivy and Holly, and planting new natives such as Ferns and Hemlocks.

Volunteer work parties will continue at Interlaken until the end of June. Join us Saturdays from 9:30 to 2:30. To sign up visit our events calendar. See you on the trail!

-Sean Bulthaup