Current projects

1. Beacon Rock Entrance Road Realignment

   Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission undergoing a planning process to renovate the main park entrance at Beacon Rock State Park. The project primarily addresses traffic and visitor safety where State Route 14 (SR 14) intersects the entrance to Beacon Rock. The purpose of the project is to design safer parking, realign or relocate the vehicle entrance, and analyze how to best separate pedestrians from vehicles. The current road alignment and campground entrance road was designed in the 1930s and requires improvements with an increase in park visitation, volume and speed of vehicles along this segment of SR 14, and to address pedestrian/vehicle conflicts.

2. Fort Townsend & Rothschild House

   Review the planning process for Fort Townsend - Rothschild House.

3. Kopachuck Day Use Development

   In 2011, the campground at Kopachuck State Park was closed indefinitely due to the discovery that many of the park’s mature Douglas Fir trees were infected with the pathogen, laminated root rot. In 2014, the State Park Commission approved a master plan for the park that better aligns with its day-use operation. State Parks then requested funding in the 2015-2017 biennium to begin the construction of the plan but unfortunately those funds were not realized and the project stalled for two years. State Parks again requested funding in the current biennium, and this time, was successful in acquiring funds to complete the first phase of construction.

4. Kopachuck & Jarrell Cove

   The CAMP project will address development and management of programs and facilities as well as protection of natural and cultural resources at these parks.

5. Lake Sammamish Master Plan Update

   The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission has begun a planning project for Lake Sammamish State Park in King County. The project will update the park’s Redevelopment and Restoration Concept Plan, which was adopted by the Commission in 2007. State Parks will consider whether the facilities proposed in the 2007 plan are still appropriate for the park and also whether any additional facilities should be considered.

6. Larrabee State Park Trail Planning

   The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission is beginning a trail planning process at Larrabee State Park and we need your help. Trail planning was identified as a park need during a 2016 Classification and Management Planning or CAMP project at Larrabee. The park has a multitude of trails intended for a variety of recreational user groups.

7. McSorley Creek Restoration

   King County and Washington State Parks are seeking public input on a proposed restoration project near Des Moines that would remove rip-rap at McSorley Creek and the shoreline at Saltwater State Park to improve fish habitat, control flooding and enhance recreational amenities.

8. Moran Mount Constitution Interpretive Center

   Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission is undertaking a new Interpretive Center containing significant interpretive exhibits. These new exhibits will help visitors appreciate the importance of Mount Constitution in the context of their journey to the park, the summit, and, for those who are able to climb, the Observation Tower. They will understand the geological origins of the mountain, its unique ecology, and why human and natural communities have been drawn to it for thousands of years. State Parks has hired HKP Architects to design an approximately 1,800 SF Center below the Tower and Creo Industrial Arts to design the interpretive exhibits. These Consultant teams will prepare site plans, building plans, building elevations, interpretive exhibit drawings and indicate materials.

9. Moran Mountain Bike Trail Proposal Planning

   Washington State Parks is looking at long-term management options at Moran State Park as Orcas Power and Light Cooperative (OPALCO) transitions away from the current utility corridor. Parks has received a proposal from Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance for formal development of a trail that will follow the alignment of the power line corridor. The developed trail would use an existing trail and the power line access road.

10. Palouse Falls, Lyons Ferry & Lewis and Clark Trail

    Washington State Parks is beginning a planning process for Palouse Falls, Lyons Ferry and Lewis and Clark Trail state parks. State Parks prepares land use plans through an agency-wide planning system called Classification and Management Planning or CAMP. CAMP is a multi-staged, public participation-based planning process for individual parks that culminates with adoption of park land classifications, a long-term park boundary, and a park management plan.

11. Saint Edward Environmental Ed & Research Center

    The Saint Edward State Park Environmental Education and Research Center (EERC) is regional research and education hub that will provide field learning and environmental research opportunities to K-12 students, local colleges, and neighboring communities. The EERC will be housed in space developed by Daniels Real Estate, LLC as part of its renovation of the Saint Edward Seminary building. In addition to more than 1,000 square feet of classroom and meeting space, the learning center will use the 326 acres of Saint Edward State Park as a living laboratory and outdoor classroom.

12. Saint Edward Planning – Ballfield Improvements

    The City of Kenmore is working with Washington State Parks to propose upgrades to the existing ballfields at Saint Edward State Park.

13. Saint Edward State Park

    Rehabilitation of the Lodge at Saint Edward State Park begins Summer 2018.

14. Schafer State Park Facility Plan

    The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission invites the public to learn more about development of a facility plan at Schafer State Park. Alternative options for the replacement of the existing campground will be introduced. State Parks is seeking feedback on these alternatives.

15. South Whidbey, Possession Point and Useless Bay

    In May 2015, the campground and group camp at South Whidbey State Park were closed due to concerns posed by failing and diseased old-growth trees. To address this issue, the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission (State Parks) is beginning a planning process to determine the future of the park.

16. Steptoe Butte & Steptoe Battlefield State Parks

    Washington State Parks is beginning a planning process for Steptoe Butte State Park and Steptoe Battlefield State Park Heritage Sites . State Parks prepares land use plans through an agency-wide planning system called Classification and Management Planning or CAMP. CAMP is a multi-staged, public participation-based planning process for individual parks that culminates with adoption of park land classifications, a long-term park boundary, and a park management plan. The combination of these deliverables constitutes a land use plan. The CAMP process typically takes ten to fifteen months to complete

17. Wallace Falls Planning

    Washington State Parks has begun a land-use planning project for Wallace Falls State Park in Snohomish County. The planning project, known as Classification and Management Planning (CAMP) includes the four planning stages described below. The CAMP project will address development and management of programs and facilities, as well as protection of natural and cultural resources in the park

18. Willapa Hills State Park Trail SR6 Crossing

    The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission invites the public to an informational open house to learn more about the development of a safe crossing where the trail intersects State Route 6 at mile post 48. At the open house, alternative crossing options will be introduced. State Parks is seeking feedback on these alternatives.