Category Overview
The State Lands Development and Renovation category provides funding to two state agencies to repair, renovate, and develop outdoor recreation facilities on existing recreation lands. As the popularity of outdoor recreation increases in our state, these grants help address overcrowding, ensure our outdoor amenities are safe for public use, improve visitor experience, and allow more people to enjoy our great outdoors.
Project Highlights
The Department of Natural Resources used this grant to complete the design for a viewpoint shelter with a sweeping vista of Mt. Rainier & four new trails within east Tiger Mountain State Forest, connecting to other trail system zones, located approximately 25 miles east of the Seattle area. Development included the design and construction of approximately 4.0 miles of new trail to create important missing trail system links. These new trails provided linkages within and to adjacent areas of the existing trail system and gave users an improved experience and safer alternative than using existing service roads. A viewpoint shelter was designed to provide weather protection, resting location, and event space. The primary outdoor recreational opportunity provided by this project is safe and sustainable facilities & trails for mountain bikers, and hikers.