Friends of the Burke-Gilman Trail at Sand Point

04/12/2026

More Flowers are coming in on the Burke-Gilman Trail down by Gas Works Park.
More Poppy is blooming, Camas is about to and we found some Baby Blue Eyes on Friday!

03/24/2026

We have been weeding out invasive grass in our Pollinator Patch on the Burke-Gilman Trail just east of Gas works Park. Plants are starting to come in for the Spring bloom. We found Silky Phacelia aready in bloom (picture), Poppys about to pot and Camas coming up. Spring is here!

11/02/2025

Looking for plants? There is a local person raising native plants that is interested in moving on some of his stock. If interested, contact Jim Corson

11/01/2025

Friends of the B-G Trail just celebrated Green Seattle Day #2 on the Burke-Gilman Trail planting native wildflowers with 35 volunteers.
The rain "mostly" stopped while we were planting and then restarted after we left -- Thanks Mom Nature. The group put in about 1900 plants of all types. We are already looking forward to Spring to see what comes up.

10/26/2025

Join Friends of the Burke-Gilman Trail and help us plant native wild flowers along the Burke-Gilman Trail. Saturday, November 1st 9:30AM-1PM The Planting Fun goes on!!!

If you are under 18 and attending the event without a parent or guardian, please come to the event with the waiver below signed by a parent or guardian.

10/26/2025

Green Seattle Day 1 is over. 35 Volunteers braved the rain- which stopped for the duration of our planting. We put in 400 plants. Hauled out several pounds of garbage and we finished early!

10/01/2025

Rain at last and all of our plants are perking up!
This last Sunday Friends of the Burke Gilman Trail hosted Boeing tocover a big piece of the Pollinator Patch with wood chips in preparation for Green Seattle Day.
GSD day is a great time to get your kids out planting (and getting a little dirty) it also shows them their parents doing community service, which is a great way to build our community!😀

06/27/2025

Wednesday, Friends of the Burke-Gilman Trail hosted UW's IHME group on the Trail.
We had a good working day a good group and weeded out a big chunk of the Trail at our north end. Kudos to IHME!

05/30/2025

The Friends of the B-G Trail hosted a great group today at the "Pollinator Patch" on the Trail.
The Salesforce group did a great job in helping us to redeem an older part of this area which was being overtaken by grass.
Kudos to Salesforce

05/24/2025

The flowers in the "Pollinator Patch" are in bloom. This area comprises two block on the B-G Trail just east of Gas Works Park. Right now The California Poppies are blooming as well as Lupine, Camas, Ookow, Larkspur, and Penstemon, with others popping up. These are all native wild flowers.

03/17/2025

All on the Trail is not just weeding and mulching. Last week a bunch of us Stewards went down to ReEcology to see how they handle the city's recyclable waste stream.
In the picture above we are assembled by bales of aluminum cans each weighing a 1/2 ton