Category Overview
Trails grants help communities and recreation areas fund the creation and improvement of trails for walking, hiking, cycling, horseback riding, and cross-country skiing. These grants help make communities more livable, create regional trails systems, and open up beautiful outdoor spaces for people to enjoy. WWRP is the largest source of trail support in the state of Washington.
Project Highlights
The Snohomish County Department of Parks and Recreation will use this grant to repair damage from two landslides and a bank wash out in a section of the Whitehorse Regional Trail. The work will include engineering, design, permitting, and repair of 2.6 miles between the trail’s junction with the Centennial Trail in Arlington and Tin Bridge, just west of the Trafton Trailhead. The trail will be gravel and 12 feet wide with 2-foot-wide soft shoulders, narrowing to 10 feet with no shoulders at all water crossings. The Whitehorse Trail is a 28-mile, regional, multiuse trail that winds through the North Fork Stillaguamish River valley along a rail corridor. A 22-mile stretch of trail was resurfaced in the past few years until a landslide and bank failure along the edge of the Stillaquamish River closed 2.6 miles of it. Snohomish County will contribute more than $1 million.