Seattle Times has recognized the value of the exhibition by featuring in-print reviews every year since 2009. In addition, hiking groups from Mountaineers, Seattle Plein-Air Painters, and other organizations actively offer programming that centers on the art-hike. This year’s exhibition was listed by Departures Magazine International as one of ten outdoor public art shows in the US to “See Now.” There are an estimated 100,000 visitors to the park during the three month display period. This year’s exhibition featured artists from as far away as Chicago and Minneapolis and had applications from artists from around the world including Vienna, London, and Germany. Since 2009, Carkeek Park is also host to the Heaven and Earth art exhibition, Seattle’s only outdoor public art exhibition in a forested urban setting. Several of these day camps bring in hundreds of children at a time. Even the railroad overpass to the beach attracts kids and adults who flock to the bridge when a train passes underneath.įor years, the Seattle Boys and Girls Club, Seattle Parks Earth Keepers Summer Day Camp, Camp Fire Central Puget Sound, and many Scout troops from around the city and region have been coming to Carkeek Park for their day camps. The views of the Sound, the Olympic Mountains and sunsets from the beach and the surrounding viewpoints in the park are some of the best in the city. Even when the tide is up, people from all over Seattle come to enjoy the beach, whether sunbathing, playing in the sand, kite surfing, fishing or just skipping a few stones. Both the Seattle Aquarium and the Seattle Parks Naturalists offer programs on Carkeek Park’s beach during low tides. At a low tide, when an additional 20 acres is exposed, you can literally walk hundreds of feet out into Puget Sound to explore the intertidal habitat. In the last year, Carkeek was the site for 16 Homewaters programs for nine different schools and a total of 715 students.Ĭarkeek Park’s beach is one of the premium tide pool beaches in Seattle. Each year they bring 4th and 5th grade students from Seattle area schools to Carkeek Park to learn about watersheds and natural ecosystems. The creeks of Carkeek Park are also integral to Islandwood’s Homewaters program. Each school raises salmon fry in their classrooms, and then the classes come to Carkeek to learn more about the salmon and release their fry in the imprint pond. Each year 22 schools participate in the Salmon in the Classroom program. The Salmon Run program included 21 student programs with 20 schools, including schools south of the ship canal, with 800 K-5 students and 60 adults participating. The Salmon Steward volunteers this year, working three hours a day for five weekends (33 hours total), counted 2993 visitor contacts. Each year the return is featured in local and regional publications and attracts thousands of visitors. During the salmon run as well as the summer months, Carkeek fits the Board’s proposed Regional classification of being a “destination.”Ĭarkeek Park is home to one of only two salmon runs within the City of Seattle (based on King County’s Salmon Seeson Criteria the other is the Ballard Locks) and the only one with regularly spawning salmon. This year, we had a new salmon return record of 618 individuals, including 44 Coho and two Chinook. In that time, we had ov er 1800 visitors from around the city and some from out of state. Last year, 21 volunteers opened the imprint pond for about 95 hours over three months while feeding the fry. Each year, volunteers raise and release approximately 60-70,000 chum fry and another 100,000 chum eggs in the Les Malmgren Imprint pond. The large field near the playground not only serves a s an area for people from the community to come and play, it is used for larger events hosted by schools, churches, non-profits and businesses from around the region.Ĭarkeek Park’s creeks are home to native sea-run cutthroat trout as well as planted Chum salmon. The park also contains many developed amenities including the Environmental Learning Center, a playground with a salmon slide and tide pool, over 50 picnic tables, 2 picnic shelters, and a large fire ring. The trail system leads people to view points, the beach, a playground, Demonstration Gardens, Pipers Orchard, a wetland, meadows, remnants of original fir, hemlock and cedar forests, and more. There are 6 miles of trails, many following the 1.5+ miles of creeks running through the park. Carkeek Park’s approximately 200 acres is diverse and includes saltwater, riparian, wetland, upland forest and meadow habitat supporting a wide range of wildlife.
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