LAKEWOOD – If you love to hit the beach when the sun comes out, you’ll soon have another stretch of sand to consider.
Snohomish County is building a new 6-acre park on the north shore of Lake Goodwin at 4620 Lakewood Road. The new park will be called Lake Goodwin Community Park.
The park will feature piers for fishing and swimming, an improved beach, a boardwalk, a playground, trails, picnic areas, a shelter, a bathroom with showers, and parking, said Marc Krandel, planning supervisor for the Snohomish County Parks and Recreation Department.
An opening date has not yet been set, although Krandel guessed the park would be ready by October.
Krandel anticipates the park will be a big hit, based on experiences at the few other waterfront county parks.
“Any sort of waterfront development is highly prized and heavily used,” Krandel said.
The county’s park should take some of the pressure off Wenberg State Park on the lake’s east side, Krandel said.
“That state park is so happy” about the county’s park, he said. “They’re so oversubscribed.”
The Lake Goodwin park will not have a boat ramp, however, because the lake is too shallow there, he said. The park will not have camping, either.
“The neighbors didn’t want us to have camping,” Krandel said, referring to comments from planning sessions.
The county has been working on the park since it was offered the 12-acre property several years ago, Krandel said.
The land was purchased for $2 million with the help of a $1 million state grant from the Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation, he said. Snohomish County’s conservation futures fund paid the other half of the cost.
The construction budget is $1.7 million, with another grant, this time for $670,000, from the same state committee. That amount represents the first phase of the park, which will develop only half of the 12-acre property. The other half will be developed in the future, if the county obtains new grants.
That second phase would include a place for a caretaker, more trails, more waterfront development and more environmental enhancements, such as replacing landscaping with native plants.
Reporter Scott Morris: 425-339-3292 or smorris@heraldnet.com.
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