Welcome
Help shape the design of a safe route to bike, stroll or roll through Parkland!
Pierce County is working to bring a bike and pedestrian pathway to connect Parkland families to schools and parks.
What's happening now:
- The detailed design phase has begun! Stay tuned here and sign up for email updates to learn about upcoming opportunities to learn more and share your thoughts.
- Take a look at the Parkland Community Trail Alternative Evaluation and Conceptual Design Report. This report gives an overview of the project and the decision points to date, as well as some of the challenges and opportunities moving forward.
Thanks to everyone who joined our virtual presentation in April 2020 where we gave a short presentation about the project and answered questions from the community. You can watch the recording of the presentation if you were not able to join us, or if you'd like to get caught up on where we've been.
Español
El Departamento de Parques del Condado de Pierce está trabajando para traer un sendero comunitario para conectar los vecindarios de Parkland con cinco escuelas, tres parques del condado y la Universidad Pacific Lutheran. El Sendero de la Comunidad Parkland proporcionará una ruta segura para personas de todas las edades para moverse en un área que actualmente tiene pocas aceras o carriles para bicicletas. Obtenga información en español sobre el proyecto y por favor responda la encuesta o envíe un correo electrónico a brandongonzalez@altaplanning.com.


Project background
Community connections
The Parkland Community Trail will connect Parkland neighborhoods to five schools, three County parks and Pacific Lutheran University. The Parkland Community Trail will provide a safe route for people of all ages to get around in an area that currently has few sidewalks or bike lanes.
The route connects 129th St S along the south edge of PLU, heads south along 8th Ave S, connects to Yakima Ave S via 135th St S, then travels down Yakima Ave S to connect to Sprinker Recreation Center and Bresemann Forest (see map below). The trail design combines on and off-street trail types, depending on the location along the route. We designed the trail on public right-of-way to minimize property impacts.

The trail will connect the following schools and parks:
- Washington High School
- Keithley Middle School
- Gates Alternative High School
- Brookdale Elementary School
- Mary's Academy
- Pacific Lutheran University (PLU)
- Parkland Prairie
- Gonyea Playfield
- Spanaway Regional Park (Sprinker Recreation Center, Bresemann Forest and Spanaway Park)
Whether you walk, ride or roll to get around, our goal is to give you a safe way to get to schools and parks in Parkland. Through a combination of the proposed trail types below, the Parkland Trail will offer improved safety, visibility and accessibility for people of all ages:
- Multiuse trail: A bi-directional, shared-use pathway adjacent to the street separated from motor vehicle traffic by at least 2-3 feet of vertical or landscaped separation.
Multiuse Trail - Off-street trail: A bi-directional, shared-use pathway with no adjacent street. Off-street trails typically run through parks, along waterways, railroad corridors or utility corridors.
Off-Street Trail

Also happening in your neighborhood:
Pierce County Parks is beginning construction on amazing improvements to the Sprinker Recreation Center in 2022.

Let's get moving
Explore the concept design
Your feedback has helped us develop the trail route and identify key design and safety features. Check out the design below:
Now that the trail route has been established, we need your help as we move into detailed design to determine how it looks! We will be asking for your feedback as the team works on the design throughout 2021.
Kids activity
If you're looking for a fun activity, download our free Parkland Community Trail coloring sheet!
Share your color creations with us by using #PierceCoCreates on social media or send them to brianne.blackburn@piercecountywa.gov.
Upcoming events
Stay tuned here or sign up for email updates below to learn about upcoming events and workshops.
Virtual open house
We will be hosting a virtual open house as early as late March 2021 to share an overview about the project, recap how we got here, answer your questions, collect feedback to inform design progress, and look ahead.
Pierce County Parks hosted a virtual presentation on April 29, 2020. If you weren’t able to join us, you can watch the recording of the presentation to learn more about the concept design and hear responses to community members’ questions.
Pierce County Parks hosted an open house on Feb. 6 to discuss the proposed route for the Parkland Community Trail. If you weren’t able to make the meeting, you can review meeting materials.
The proposed route for the Parkland Community Trail was divided into four geographic segments and at the time included several trail alternatives. The proposed route combined on and off-street trail types, depending on the location along the route.
Feel free to explore the other materials from the meeting below.
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Project timeline
Follow along with us
- Thank you to everyone who shared their experiences walking and biking in Parkland in early 2020.
- We hosted on online survey and an in-person open house to share more information about the project and collect your feedback on the trail route.
- We gave a virtual presentation on the concept design on April 29. You can watch the recording of the presentation if you were not able to join us.
- Learn about the trail alignment and design established during the initial design phase
- Stay tuned for opportunities to get involved and share feedback to inform guide the development of further design and how the trail looks.
- Sign up for email updates to stay in the loop as the project moves forward
