Black River Riparian Forest (Interurban Trail)
This segment of the Interurban Trail opened in February, 2020 right before Covid took hold in Washington state. You can access it via Naches Ave SW which is right off Oaksdale Ave SW in south Renton. Naches Ave ends at a circle and you can park there and enter...
Cedar River Trail
We’ve been doing this trail for years, accessing it at a few different points (see below) along the river. The trail is actually over 17 miles long, extending all the way to the small town of Landsburg near Maple Valley. The sections we’ve done are on the other end...
Des Moines Creek Trail
We were excited to discover this trail, which starts right on the line between SeaTac and Des Moines, near the Angle Lake light rail station. There is a small parking lot is at Des Moines Creek Trail Park right off S. 200th St. The trail runs along a creek...
Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park
We first visited Coulon Beach Park in Renton around 2017 and loved it… but then we forgot about it for a while and only recently returned. One thing we noticed immediately is that there are a lot more people in the spring and summer! A few restaurants with outdoor...
Seahurst Park (Burien)
The trail isn’t too long but this is a really pretty spot right on the Puget Sound in Burien. There’s also a playground and some great beach exploring — which our 5-year enjoyed while we checked out the wheelchair accessible areas with Lucas. We started out in the lower...
Soos Creek Trail
We’ve been exploring wheelchair accessible trails in Western Washington for 7 or 8 years (but especially over the last year) and somehow in that time we never ended up at Soos Creek Trail… until a sunny, late March day in 2021. It’s a great trail — suburban and yet...
Springbrook Trail Boardwalk (Renton)
This is one of the first walks we did in the spring of 2020 when the world had just shut down because of Covid. Kids were out of school, parks and playgrounds were closed, and yet it was starting to get warmer outside. So we realized that we were...
West Fenwick Park/Lake Fenwick (Kent)
West Fenwick Park and Lake Fenwick park are two adjacent and connected parks in the city of Kent. We found about about West Fenwick because in 2021 they opened a new accessible playground complete with a life-sized Chutes and Ladders that you can do in a wheelchair. Lucas enjoyed...
West Hylebos Wetlands
We were so excited to find this trail in Federal Way on a nice spring day in the midst of the pandemic. It’s got one of the most extensive boardwalks we’ve found in King County and once you’ve descended into the wetlands from the parking area (after an initial...