We'll be hosting the 2023 NW Tune-Up Bike Valet on Saturday, July 15th. You'll get a FREE day pass to the festival for volunteering. Please sign up below. The NW Tune-Up is a bike, beer and ... Read More →
Recreation Northwest
Hundred Acre Wood Tour – Celebrating Parks RX & Earth Day – Saturday, April 22nd
Who: You, your family, and friends What: Free tour of the Hundred Acre Wood forest trails and our stewardship project. Estimated 3 miles RT. Easy pace and terrain. Why: Community Connected to ... Read More →
Opting OUTside
Our mission is to teach the health benefits of nature, promote outdoor recreation, and steward the places where we play. We are Opting OUTside* and hope you follow our path. We are pushing the ... Read More →
Week Nine – Outdoor Classroom Construction Timeline 2023
With Week Eight behind us and the cold freeze thawing, I spent the week in the office getting other stuff done. But by Friday, March 3rd, I knew that there were some anxious plants wanting to get in ... Read More →
Week Eight – Outdoor Classroom Construction Timeline 2023
The weather wasn't really working with us during Week Eight. We had plans to get the third bench in and also host a volunteer work party with our faculty friends from Western Washington University's ... Read More →
Week Seven – Outdoor Classroom Construction Timeline 2023
Feeling better and dressed for the weather, we set out to install the first set of our benches in the amphitheater area. With the bases secured into the underside of the flitch*, they were ready to be ... Read More →
Week Six – Outdoor Classroom Construction Timeline 2023
As we entered our sixth week of work, it was time to start installing the benches!! Here's our sample bench sitting on site waiting to be set in place. Well, it was a short week between the ... Read More →
Week Five- Outdoor Classroom Construction Timeline 2023
Diving in to the week of January 30th, 2023. Rock ON!! Bringing in more materials. Wood, rock and mulch to fill in the adventure trail. Go with the flow Getting ready to put a lid on the small ... Read More →
Week Four – Outdoor Classroom Construction Timeline 2023
Going into the week of January 23rd, we worked to add some extra walls to help hold back the dirt and give more places for us to plant more native plants!! The space behind the wall was covered in ... Read More →
Week Two – Outdoor Classroom Construction Timeline
And we're off. On the week of January 9th we started off by spreading "some" mulch! Bellingham Parks provides us with a fresh supply of mulch to cover up the exposed dirt and help keep the invasive ... Read More →
