West Duwamish Greenbelt Trails

West Duwamish
Greenbelt Trails

Author: Jay Speidell

  • Wolf’s Milk Slime Mold – One of Nature’s Recyclers 

    Wolf’s Milk Slime Mold – One of Nature’s Recyclers 

    If you take a close look at fallen logs as you walk along the West Duwamish Greenbelt Trails, you might notice quite a few strange things.  Does this tree have a pimple?!  Nope!  It’s Wolf’s Milk, a type of slime mold.  Don’t let the name fool you – this isn’t mold like what ruins your…

  • Featured in The Seattle Times!

    Featured in The Seattle Times!

    The West Duwamish Greenbelt Trails were featured in The Seattle Times! WDGT members Judy Bentley and Paul West took Seattle Times staff reporter Gregory Scruggs and photographer Erika Schultz on a tour of the trail system and spoke on WDGT’s mission, the history of the area, and how Seattle residents can immerse themselves in nature…

  • New Trails Map

    New Trails Map

    This stretch of woods in West Seattle is teeming with life, full of trails, and lots of room for roaming.  But for years, a seemingly impenetrable facade of overgrowth and a lack of knowledge of the trail system have kept many people out.  A new trails map will unravel the mysteries of the trail system.…

  • Take a Hike! 2024

    Take a Hike! 2024

    Guided hikes in the Greenbelt will resume this spring, summer, and fall.  Meet at 9:30 a.m. at Pathfinder School, 1901 SW.Genesee St., Seattle, on the third Saturday of the month for a hike of up to three miles and up to two hours on maintained and less maintained (sometimes muddy) trails.

  • Past Hikes

    Past Hikes

    Earth Day, 2023, History in the Greenbelt On Earth Day,April 22, some 80 people joined WDGT group-led hikes beginning at the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center.  Several hikes went to the top of the ridge to Pigeon Point Park.  Another walk went through the ancient village site of He-?a-pus across from the Longhouse.  They were…

  • Marichi  Branch-out Initiative

    Marichi  Branch-out Initiative

    On a rainy Saturday in October 2022, a work party of about 15 volunteers planted more than 100 plants in Puget Park, an event blessed by a Tibetan chant. The Marici Fellowship is based out of the Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle.  According to Teresa Lamb of the fellowship,…

  • The Duwamish Ridge to River Trail (R2R)

    The Duwamish Ridge to River Trail (R2R)

    In 2021 Duwamish Tribal Services received a grant from the King Conservation District to determine the feasibility of a trail from the top of Puget Ridge, Pathfinder School, and South Seattle College to the Duwamish Longhouse and Duwamish Waterway at Ha-ah-poos.  The West Duwamish Greenbelt Trails group participated in the planning for and implementation of…

  • Puget Park Work

    Puget Park Work

    Recent work under the leadership of Christine and Matthew Clark has focused on completing remaining segments of a collaborative neighborhood trail project started in 2016 (laying gravel and repair), as well as planting hundreds of native plants within Puget Park.  

  • Work Projects and Partnerships

    MOVING A NURSE LOGThe crew of GardenCycles moves a cedar nurse log to a wet area near the Duwamish Longhouse where it can support native growth.   Click here to watch a time-lapse video by Paul Parker. HIGHLAND PARK WAY SIDEWALKAn unusual project to uncover the sidewalk on the north side of Highland Park Way has…