The Edmonds Lions Club volunteers spend the second Saturday of the month, from 9 a.m. to noon, maintainining Sierra Park, also known as the Sierra Park for the Blind. They welcome community member to join them.
The Edmonds Lions Club created the Sierra Park Path for the Blind in 1976 in honor of our nation’s bicentennial celebration. The trail was built into a small neighborhood park at 19020 80th Ave. W. and winds through a peaceful wooded area.
Signs describe designated trees in print and braille and display a drawing of the tree’s leaves.
The original trail was designed by architect Bob Brown, who was blind, and was funded by the Edmonds Lions Club. The City of Edmonds owns the park, which is open to the public. Edmonds Lions work in cooperation with the city to maintain the trail.
If you have any questions, call Sandy at 425-743-4242 or Jim at 425-774-6353
Anyone else notice the weeds getting out of control in the new hwy 99 planters? I also seen the sprinklers running during the day when people have their windows rolled down. Who is running that outfit anyway?
Information I’ve received from the City is that median landscape maintenance is the responsibility of the installation contractor. That responsibility ends on July 31st, and the City assumes maintenance responsibilities after that, which would include weeding and watering.
Thanks Roger I sure hope the city has held back some of the payment because I doesn’t look like they have done anything, plus some of the weeds are hard to control and have spread over large areas I can only assume they came in with the topsoil. Plus it looks like going forward we are going to need to use herbicides to keep the beds clean, noxall vegetation killer. casoron premergance, roundup all are bad for plants people and fish looks like the contractor is going to leave us a mess.
Hi Roger Pence and Jim Fairchild.. Your comments are interesting and I agree with them some, but I fail to see what the meridian has to do with Sierra Park or the Lions Club.
Continuous waste of the precious resource of water, continuous waste of money having to pay large crews to tend to those planters. Best choice would have been limited height growth surface rooted trees.
I too don’t understand why you bring up weeds on 99. Instead of saying something nice about the Edmonds Lions maintaining this park??!! Or better yet volunteer to help!!
It is my favorite park I have probably visited this park more than any other in Edmonds I have visited from the time the blind park was built and I am thinking the ball field was there even before that. I am happy someone is looking after it. Seaview resident since 1972. My daughter is even named Sierra.
It’s a pretty well-known fact that the Lions Club is a great organization and has done much for our community forever. I think with news articles in an AP newspaper it is not unusual for people to see one great effort and think that’s nice and then the mind wanders to where it isn’t nice at all. I think this is what happened here, and it did and should occur often in a newspaper that thrives because of news + comments. So again, Thank you to the Lions Club and to the Volunteers in all parks too throughout our city. SO ok now where is the volunteer work and the responsibility for taking care of HWY 99 meridians and flowerpots and all of it? This is how conversation is encouraged. AND Btw I don’t know you Jim, but I think it’s great that you have been an Edmonds citizen since 1972. I think it’s cool you named your daughter Sierra too. I am glad you enjoyed and continue to enjoy Sierra Park in 2024. Funny you have lived here longer than many of our CC members, our legislators haha practically everyone except the originals and their descendants. I arrived purchased a home 1992 or 93 I always forget as we arrived in WA in 1988. Seen and heard a lot haven’t we?