The mission of Columbia Valley Parks and Recreation District is to improve the quality of life in Columbia Valley by providing the community with access to
diverse parks and recreational opportunities.
Columbia Valley Park and Recreation District is a local government entity within Whatcom County. Our commissioners are elected from our community by our community and volunteer for this service. Learn more about our commissioners and the work CVPRD is doing on our About page.
This year Columbia Valley Park and Recreation District is on the general election ballot under Proposition 2024-23 which calls for a 6-year levy that would cost the average homeowner in Columbia Valley about the same as 6 cups of coffee per year. This levy would fund the purchase of park properties within the Columbia Valley UGA, one of which would be a walk of 10 minutes or less from your front door.
Help improve the quality of life for yourself, your family and the entire community by VOTING YES ON PROP 2024-23!
Park News
Work is continuing on Creekside Park (7916 Santa Fe Trail) with several work groups (all volunteers) pitching in.
At the end of August we were fortunate to have students from the Mt Baker Sr High, One Baker Voice Learn, Serve and Earn program, tackle the hillside at the rear of the park and remove all the brush and blackberry vines. These amazing young people cheerfully spent one of the hottest days of the year battling dust, bugs, blackberry thorns, falling in the creek, and more in a concerted effort to improve our park.
As they worked they also learned practical skills like how to use a hammer effectively. These two young women spent the afternoon nailing up the wire on the south side fence, while others dug out roots and stripped the hillside, and several more carried brush, logs and blackberries across the park to a debris pile.
We at the park district want to send out a huge THANK YOU to these incredible young people and are deeply grateful for their help!
The following week park commissioners Carl McDaniel and Richard Whitson, along with Carl’s 17 yr old granddaughter, Hannah, pulled out enormous cedar trees that had fallen at the back of the property and began milling them up for benches, a picnic table, bridge and other park amenities.
And this past Thursday we were able to hold our first park district business meeting in the park and were joined by several members of the community who support our efforts to bring safe and healthy, multigenerational recreation spaces to Columbia Valley residents.
As work continues, we’ll add a grill, benches, play equipment, dog station and trash receptacle. At the back of the property we will be creating a trail up and across the hillside for those who really want to stretch their legs or walk their dogs.
Feel free to visit the park while work is going on, or better yet, when it’s not, and enjoy the new amenities!
Please do NOT climb on the logs or milled wood in the park!
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