- Interpretive Center play dates, special events and festivals, work parties: check out the following pages for more information: Interpretive Center; Upcoming Events.
- National Trails Day, Saturday, June 7th, 10 am to 4 pm.
The American Hiking Society's slogan this year, Join Us on the Trail, is an open invitation to all to get out and experience everything the Clear Creek Trail has to offer. http://www.americanhiking.org/events/ntd/index.html
We will celebrate with Family Day around the Clear Creek Saq'ad Interpretive Center . . From 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
* Guided Trail Walks * “I-Spy” Guide with prizes for kids that find all items
* Birding with the Audubon Society
* Lemonade Stand with St. Antony's volunteers
* Plus fish painting, pinecone toss, and magic fishing poles.
- Also on National Trail Day--Trail Maintenance at the Old Mill Park. From 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., the Kitsap Mountaineers will organize and clean-up the Old Mill Park beach and continue blackberry and scotch broom control. Volunteers are welcome to join in. Participants should bring their own gloves and tools. Trash bags will be provided. Participants that sign up in advance receive a free Mountaineers 2008 National Trails Day T-shirt. Bring clippers, loppers, gloves and sturdy shoes.Online signup is a click away. Non-members need to sign a liability waiver. And remember, those that sign up in advance before May 25 will receive a free Mountaineers National Trails Day t-shirt. http://foresttheater.com/index.php?option=com_philaform&form_id=13&Itemid=1
There is very limited parking at Old Mill Park, please park at the Clear Creek Interpretive Center's weekend parking lot and walk over to the Old Mill parking lot to sign in. Directions to Clear Creek Sa’qad Interpretive Center located at the mouth of Clear Creek in Silverdale: From Silverdale Way, travel east on Bucklin Hill Road .5 miles, over Clear Creek. Turn left onto Mickelberry Road (signal light) and immediately left again into Mariner Square parking lot. Travel through the parking lot to the stop sign. Cross Levin Road into Creekside Office Park. The Clear Creek Sa’qad Interpretive Center is located in the red barn on the west end of the parking lot. There is a signal crosswalk across Bucklin Hill Road to the Old Mill Park.
 Randy Peterson has been with the Clear Creek Task Force from day one. A retired Coast Guard Captain, he wanted to get involved in his community and stopped by for a meeting 15 years ago. He never left.
In addition to being totally committed to the Task Force mission, Randy is a Jack of All Trades who takes care of almost all of the trail maintenance, and oversees all the construction. He is out on the trail daily doing everything from the small litter pick up and graffiti removal, to clearing vegetation and fallen trees. Continued... |
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Meet Clear Creek
In 1993, Paul Brittain, a local businessman, decided something should, something could be done with the Clear Creek corridor and stream. In the middle of Kitsap County’s most rapidly developing commercial area, Silverdale, the stream and its riparian area needed to be preserved for future generations. The beautiful little stream, with its headwaters several miles north of Silverdale, arrives at a pleasant estuary and then drains into Dyes Inlet, part of the Puget Sound. Once meandering through
a quiet rural area, the stream had gone ignored in the boom of retail/commercial development that began in the late 1970’s in Silverdale. (Continue reading)
Meet the Clear Creek Task Force
The Clear Creek Task Force, formed in 1993. CCTF operates under the aegis of the former Kitsap Land Trust, a 501(c)(3) organization, now known as the Great Peninsula Conservancy. The Task Force is an alliance of Kitsap County citizens, businesses, groups and service organizations. The Clear Creek Task Force’s Mission (Continue reading)
Meet the Great Peninsula Conservancy
In 2000, four Land Trusts: Kitsap Land Trust, Indianola Land Trust, Hood Canal Land Trust and Peninsula Heritage Land Trust merged into the Great Peninsula Conservancy. The mission of the Great Peninsula Conservancy is to work to protect forever the rural landscapes, natural habitat and open spaces of the Great Peninsula region.GPC plays an important role in the Clear Creek Trail Project as the Task Force’s 501(c)(3) organization. It handles trail agreements; conservation, acquisition and stewardship of property easements and donations along the Clear Creek Corridor; and provides a governing andadvisory role to the Task Force. The Great Peninsula Conservancy serves the entire Kitsap and Great Peninsula .
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