ISSAQUAH CREEK SELF-GUIDED TOUR 5 FRONT STREET PARK POST YOUR FINDINGS AND TAG #CREEKCORRIDOR! Walk from Veterans’ Memorial Field to N 0 100’ 200’ 400’ Front Street Park and down to Issaquah 1 EMILY DARST PARK Creek. Lake Sammamish State Park Look upstream from the Emily Darst What would you like to do in the future Park Bridge and walk to 4th Ave NW. at Front Street Park? How would you like to cross I-90? How can the connection between Issaquah Creek and Veterans’ Memorial Through the existing underpass at 4th Field be made more clear? Ave, under the bridge along Issaquah Creek, or other ways?
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YOU CAN RETURN YOUR COMMENTS BY: • Emailing Jennifer Fink at [email protected] Squak Valley Park • Returning the form to the Issaquah Community Center, 8 301 Rainier Blvd. S, PO Box 1307, Issaquah, WA 98027 • Returning the form to parks staff at future community engagement events N 0 1 0 0 ’ L 2 a k 0 0 ’ e S t Sammamish a t POTENTIAL AREA CONNECTION VIEWING/ACCESS POTENTIAL AND CURRENT CREEK POTENTIAL UNDERCROSSING POTENTIAL ROAD CROSSING POTENTIAL CREEK CROSSING NEIGHBORHOOD TRAIL POTENTIAL STREETSCAPE/ POTENTIAL NATURAL AREA TRAIL STATION AND I-90 CROSSING AREA (TBD) POTENTIAL SOUND TRANSIT LIGHT RAIL PROPOSED MOUNTAIN TO SOUND TRAIL EXISTING I-90 UNDERPASS CROSSING EXISTING MAJOR CORRIDOR TRAILS LEGEND EXISTING TRAIL POTENTIAL CONNECTION TO 4 0 0 e P ’
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