Cities Use Public Transit to Make Nature More Accessible
An event for the launch of Trailhead Direct service from the Tukwila light rail station.
Photo courtesy of King County Parks
Seattle is one of several major cities implementing a “transit to trails” program to help more people access local wilderness.
Jul 16, 2021
On a recent spring morning, Kamal Adhikari hopped in his Chrysler 200S and made the 30-minute drive from his home in a Seattle suburb to the Poo Poo Point Trailhead in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. When he arrived at 10 a.m. the trailhead parking lot was full. He ended up paying for parking at a private lot down the road. Then he hit the trail for the nearly 4-mile round-trip hike that winds 1,800 vertical feet up Tiger Mountain to its namesake vista, Poo Poo Point, where paragliders soar into the air and views on a clear day stretch all the way to the Coast Mountains of British Columbia.