New park now open in Bellevue
Newport Hills Woodlawn Park in Bellevue has been opened to the public after 10 years of development and construction.
The new park includes loop and forested trails, an open lawn, exercise equipment for adults, a playground for children, parking, restrooms, and a picnic area and shelter. Local print shops are often involved in such efforts to create printed maps of the trails and layouts of such new parks. Once the grass has grown in the spring, there will also be an area for leashed dogs that will be fenced off.
Lynne Robinson, mayor of Bellevue, said that the parks in the city are treasured community assets and enable people to gather, learn, play, and develop a relationship with the outdoors and all it has to offer.
Director of Parks and Community Services, Michael Shiosaki, expressed his thanks to the community for their support and involvement in the effort to develop the park, and for their patience with the planning efforts and construction.
Funding from the King County Conservation Futures and the 2008 Parks and Natural Areas Levy enabled the city to purchase the first property for the park on Southeast 60th Street in the Newport Hills area. Bellevue acquired the second parcel of land five years later; this was five acres of a forested area north of and next to the first property. The last parcel of 3.5 acres was acquired in 2019.
The new park includes loop and forested trails, an open lawn, exercise equipment for adults, a playground for children, parking, restrooms, and a picnic area and shelter. Local print shops are often involved in such efforts to create printed maps of the trails and layouts of such new parks. Once the grass has grown in the spring, there will also be an area for leashed dogs that will be fenced off.
Lynne Robinson, mayor of Bellevue, said that the parks in the city are treasured community assets and enable people to gather, learn, play, and develop a relationship with the outdoors and all it has to offer.
Director of Parks and Community Services, Michael Shiosaki, expressed his thanks to the community for their support and involvement in the effort to develop the park, and for their patience with the planning efforts and construction.
Funding from the King County Conservation Futures and the 2008 Parks and Natural Areas Levy enabled the city to purchase the first property for the park on Southeast 60th Street in the Newport Hills area. Bellevue acquired the second parcel of land five years later; this was five acres of a forested area north of and next to the first property. The last parcel of 3.5 acres was acquired in 2019.