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Strolling through Fairhaven Park

By Summer 2021, we are planning to offer small group out of doors experiences, classes, and park tours to be hosted in primary partnerships with Bellingham Parks, WWU Recreation, and Woodstock Farm Conservancy.

Categories: Outdoor Recreation, Nature, and Parks History

Instructors: Recreation Northwest staff, interns, partners, volunteers, and contractors. 

Outdoor Recreation

Learn the basics, more advanced, and technical skills for getting you and your family outdoors recreating responsibly. Urban walks, Hikes, Backpacking, Car Camping, Hammocking, Mountain Biking, Van Lifestyle, and so much more. You name it, we’ll teach it. 

Nature

Our trained Nature Navigators will work to remove barriers with clients in order to get them outdoors to enjoy nature as a therapeutic tool. We envision allowing deserving people who qualify to attend our Education programs offerings with scholarships.

History

Imagine Park Tours with social and natural history narratives paying respect to indigenous Salish Sea tribes and telling the story of Bellingham’s Parks. Highlighting the larger milestones our city has experienced as we continue to value our parks & greenways, stewardship, local economy, and highlight the legacy of Cyrus Gates in relevant parks to weave the connections into one narrative thread.

Our partners at Woodstock Farm Conservancy will complement our History programming and education. As content creators, educators, and recreationists we can see authoring and publishing articles, books, and digital publications about the history of outdoor recreation, parks, business, and culture in Whatcom County.

Stewardship posts from our blog, The Confluence

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    Greetings on Giving Tuesday

    On this Giving Tuesday, we are asking for your support to help make our Outdoor Classroom project a reality.  Over the past two years we have diligently tried to replace our traditional recreation events with outdoor and nature education experiences. This approach just didn’t have traction. Fortunately, our grounded stewardship work in Fairhaven Park has... Read More →
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    Fairhaven Park Stewardship Work Party 6/14/22

    Dear Volunteers,  We are hosting a work party on Tuesday, June 14th from 5:30pm – 7:30pm.  RSVP in form below.  Date: Tuesday, June 14th  Times: 5:30pm – 7:30pm Meet: Fairhaven Park Upper Shelter.  107 Chuckanut Dr N, Bellingham, WA 98225 Bring: Great Attitude, Work Gloves, Snacks, Water Bottle We’ll provide: Tour of project, tools, and... Read More →
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    Saturday, May 21st – Fairhaven Park Volunteer Work Party

    Dear Volunteers,  We are hosting a work party with the staff from Peak Sustainability Group. They reached out to us asking if they could help with our mitigation maintenance and native plant care in our adopted area in Fairhaven Park. Next, we are inviting YOU to join Us for a day of stewardship work and... Read More →
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Recreation Northwest
PO Box 2771
Bellingham, WA 98227

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Recreation Northwest is a 501(c)3 charity. All donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law. Our non-profit federal tax-exempt number is 46-1774882.

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