Tag: issaquah

October 4, 2023

Decades in the making, the fully-paved East Lake Sammamish Trail opens Saturday

The grand opening celebration for the East Lake Sammamish Trail is set for noon Saturday (October 7), a moment decades in the making. Meet at the trail parking lot in Redmond across the trail from Whole Foods for a family-friendly party and banner break. Then you can ride in peace all the way to Issaquah…
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tagged: e lake sammamish trail, friends of the e lake sammamish trail, issaquah, king county parks, redmond
January 17, 2018

Penultimate section of the E Lake Sammamish Trail opens today

A hard-fought, 1.2-mile section of the E Lake Sammamish Trail finally opens today after more than a year of construction and many, many years of planning and advocacy. King County Parks is hosting an opening celebration at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday), after which the trail will be only one segment away from linking Issaquah and…
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tagged: e lake sammamish trail, issaquah, king county parks
October 17, 2017

Attorney seeks people who have had incidents at fatal Issaquah trail crossing

Wayne Wagner was biking on the East Lake Sammamish Trail September 22 when a woman driving made a right turn into him at SE 56th Street and killed him, according to the Issaquah Reporter. Wagner was 69. Our condolences to his friends and family. The trail runs alongside East Lake Sammamish Parkway in this part…
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tagged: deaths, issaquah, issaquah reporter, john duggan, wayne wagner
August 4, 2017

You can now take a bus hiking on weekends, and there are spaces for bikes

King County Metro and King County Parks have partnered to launch a new transit-to-trailheads service that starts tomorrow. And each shuttle will have two spaces for bicycles. The shuttle starts at Issaquah Transit Center and makes stops at trailheads throughout the “Issaquah Alps” at Margaret’s Way, Poo Poo Point and East Sunset Way before swinging…
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tagged: issaquah, king county metro, king county parks, transit to trails
April 7, 2016

Police searching for hit-and-run suspect who injured man biking in Issaquah

Police are searching for the person who struck and injured a man biking in Issaquah Wednesday morning and fled the scene. Though he was hauled off to the hospital on a stretcher, Dave Anderson escaped the collision with minor injuries. He’s scraped up and bruised, but was able to give interviews to media asking for…
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tagged: crime, dave anderson, injuries, issaquah, issaquah press, issaquah-hobart road, king county sheriff, komo
July 9, 2015

Newly-paved section of the East Lake Sammamish Trail is now open

The newest paved section of the E Lake Sammamish Trail has opened, and it’s far more than just a trail. King County recently opened a 2.6-mile segment of the rail-trail stretching south from the segment already paved in Redmond. A very bikeable gravel trail finishes the connection into Issaquah, where the pavement starts again. The…
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tagged: e lake sammamish trail, issaquah, king county parks, redmond