Are you ready to make a difference at Little Mountain Park? Help us repair the bridges along the La-Z-Boy trail before winter sets in.
Are you ready to make a difference at Little Mountain Park? The Mount Vernon Parks Foundation is looking for volunteers to help build a new trail that will connect the restrooms at the main parking lot to the central multi-use trail system.
As I write this blog post for the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation, my last as president of this fine organization, I feel the need to recap, reflect and look ahead.
Mount Vernon Parks Foundation is committed to shining a light on our parks, helping to enhance, maintain and grow an already impressive line-up of community parks. Now's your opportunity to support the parks you love by joining us for our 2019 Trail-A-Thon fundraiser. And if you're wondering why support MVPF, here’s just some of what we've accomplished in the past year with the donations and volunteer support our community entrusted to us…
Now that we are through with that nasty spell of smoky weather the smell of fall is in the air, and on Little Mountain that means TRAIL BUILDING. We successfully completed the new connector trail this spring and summer, and after our summer break in August are excited to be tackling a bigger fish this fall- Little Mountain's first Mountain Bike Flow trail.
This spring our all-volunteer Mount Vernon Parks Foundation launched a new program it developed for bringing Mount Vernon School District fifth grade classrooms to Little Mountain Park. The intent of the field trips were to link the students’ experiences at the North Cascades Institute's Mountain School in North Cascades National Park to environments much closer to home…
We had a hugely successful launch to the 2017 build season yesterday and thanks to all who contributed! I was lucky enough to spend the day floating between working groups and got a great sense of the community of folks who use and love the trails of little mountain. It was inspiring to hear of trail runners, hikers, and mountain bikers who see these trails as their home mountain…
