Location: Kirkland
Length: About a half-mile.
Level of difficulty: Level to gently sloping.
By Cathy McDonald | June 9, 2005
Location: Kenmore.
Length: About a quarter mile.
Level of difficulty: From the parking lot, a short bark trail leads south through the wetlands (can be wet after rains) to a level, paved trail. A short, paved side loop next to the stream leads up a small hill and then down to casual dirt trails that extend into the wetlands.
By Cathy McDonald | April 28, 2005
Location: Kenmore.
Length: Short stroll connects to several miles of forest trails.
Level of difficulty: Level-to-moderate grassy field (soggy after rains), paved walkways, and dirt/gravel forest trails.
By Cathy McDonald | April 7, 2005
The trail is a haven, among fast-growing suburbs, for bicyclists. Stop at a riverside park for a glimpse of pioneer history and take short detours off the trail for a meal, from gourmet to fast-food.
From its north end in Bothell, the flat and vehicle-free trail winds along the shallow Sammamish River (more a creek at many points), skirting busy roads and housing. As it turns south through Woodinville and Redmond, eventually ending at Marymoor Park, it opens into a valley where big-box warehouses give way to fields, both agricultural and athletic, and parkland.
By Kristin Jackson | December 30, 2004
The outing:
For the holiday-frazzled, here's a Saturday outing that comes with its own mellowing agent: beer.
By Brian J. Cantwell | December 30, 2004
The outing:
It should not come as a shock to anyone's system — anyone, that is, who has lived for any number of years in Western Washington — that there are plants that don't lose their leaves in winter.
Or that the Yuletide Camellia sends forth gorgeous, dark-red, flat-pedaled flowers with starry-gold centers in December. Or that there are pansies that defy the pejorative meaning of the word and rage against the dying of the light we call winter.
But it does — come as a shock.
By Terry Tazioli | December 30, 2004
The walk:
This isn't the Eastside I grew up in, I thought, as I shuffled around downtown Kirkland, not far from where my mother raised a beef cow in the back yard in the early 1950s, or where I took my wife-to-be on a first date at the well-neoned (now long-gone) Flame steakhouse.
Somehow, in the meantime, it seems that Carmel has oozed up from California.
Posh boutiques, galleries and toney restaurants reflect in the gleaming doors of bumper-to-bumper Lexi the plural of Lexus on Lake Street, where every smiling jogger carries a Blackberry.
By Brian J. Cantwell | September 9, 2004
Take a Walk
Location: Bothell.
Length: Three-quarter mile trail, with link by bridge over the river to the Sammamish River Trail.
Level of difficulty: Flat, paved trail and wooden boardwalk.
By Cathy McDonald | May 27, 2004
Short Trips
KIRKLAND -- Along the bustling Lake Washington shoreline between Carillon Point and Kirkland's downtown today, it's hard to imagine what the area looked liked even 30 years ago.
Over the years, high-tech has gradually displaced the town's once proud manufacturing economic base that was centered on the waterfront. Kirkland's Lake Washington shoreline is now mostly oriented to leisure and residential. Public parks dotting the milelong stretch are popular year-round haunts for residents and visitors.
By Jeff Larsen | November 27, 2003
