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Trail Update: Sign Up for Saturday, February 10, Download the Park Map, and Celebrate a Fun Run!

Slip on your rain gear, rubber boots and join us Saturday, February 10, 2024 as we continue the work on Hill Creek Trail! The plan is to work on drainage, root removal, and establishing the route into the Big Meadow. Let us know you’re coming by signing up through the website. Skagit County Parks andContinue reading “Trail Update: Sign Up for Saturday, February 10, Download the Park Map, and Celebrate a Fun Run!”

Video: Historic Farm on Hill Creek Trail Visible from the Air

We took the drone camera out last week to capture aerial footage of the Big Meadow on Hill Creek Trail. The new trail will route back through the meadow to create a loop. The roof of an old barn is visible to hikers passing by the Big Meadow. What we saw from the air areContinue reading “Video: Historic Farm on Hill Creek Trail Visible from the Air”

Advocacy Alert: Please Support (C23-3 OSRSI) Allowed Uses Amendment on Oct 24, 2023

Skagit Trail Builders asks you Please Support (C23-3 OSRSI) Allowed Uses Amendment! On Skagit County’s 2023 Docket of Proposed Policy, Code, and Map Amendments: “Amend SCC 14.16.500(3) to allow trails to be a permitted use in the OSRSI zone, while trailheads are kept as an administrative special use.” This amendment will remove some of theContinue reading “Advocacy Alert: Please Support (C23-3 OSRSI) Allowed Uses Amendment on Oct 24, 2023”

Trail Update: Volunteers at the October 14 Work Party.

What a crew! We had 24 volunteers join our trail work party on Saturday, October 14, 2023. They moved loads and loads of mineral soil from the borrow pit to build up the trail surface. Along with our core volunteer crew, we were joined by many new faces. (The best part of this project isContinue reading “Trail Update: Volunteers at the October 14 Work Party.”

Advocacy Update: Skagit Trail Builders attends the Washington State Trails Caucus

“Hey! I know you!” JT of Skagit Trail Builders ran into Sterling of Pacific Northwest Trail Association at the Washington State Trails Caucus on Mercer Island. (PNTA’s office is located in Sedro Woolley, right behind the Bull Pen Bar and Grill!) Trail advocates and representatives from organizations and agencies gathered to discuss statewide planning, grantContinue reading “Advocacy Update: Skagit Trail Builders attends the Washington State Trails Caucus”

Trail Update: We finished another 1000′ of Hill Creek Trail!

We had a great turn out-out at our Sept 23 work party. Thanks, Volunteers! We couldn’t do it without you! The “pit crew” filled buckets and buckets (and buckets) of soil from the borrow pit. We had 2 power carriers running soil from the pit to the team spreading it on the trail. Up aheadContinue reading “Trail Update: We finished another 1000′ of Hill Creek Trail!”

Trail Update: Turning the corner on Hill Creek Trail

We had twenty volunteers participate in our first work party of the new build year, Saturday, Sept 9. We worked on Hill Creek Trail, excavating soil from a “borrow pit” to spread on the trail. This is how we create a level, sustainable trail surface. (We use borrow pits to access gravel and mineral soilContinue reading “Trail Update: Turning the corner on Hill Creek Trail”

Trail Update: Back to work on Hill Creek Trail September 9, 2023

We start a new build season on Saturday, September 9, 2023! We are picking up where we left off in June…restoration work on Hill Creek Trail and improving the tread up to Big Rock. We welcome volunteers of all ages and abilities – no experience necessary – bring your enthusiasm and willingness to learn! SignContinue reading “Trail Update: Back to work on Hill Creek Trail September 9, 2023”