"This is a great place to take your family, yourself, or a friend for a short hike in beautiful open space only 3 miles east of downtown Redmond." B. Yoder
By Susan Wilkins
Redmond, WA.
The Evans Creek
Preserve, a new park and nature preserve east of Redmond was opened to the
public in late 2011 after nearly a decade of planning and a year of intensive
trail construction. The preserve is mostly gentle rolling hills with open
meadows and forested uplands. It is located in the bottomland of the Evans
Creek Basin, a few miles east of Redmond, in the deep southeast trending valley
that connects Redmond and Fall City. Evans Creek runs through the north edge of
the preserve in an undersized, meandering channel that routinely floods creating
swamps and wetland ponds that cover much of the site during the winter.
We visited in early July and the wetlands were mostly grassy and dry. Evans Creek was running so slowly that we weren’t sure where it was and had to check the map. In the fall, Evans Creek will have native runs of chinook as well as runs of coho and sockeye salmon that will pass through the preserve and spawn upstream.
We visited in early July and the wetlands were mostly grassy and dry. Evans Creek was running so slowly that we weren’t sure where it was and had to check the map. In the fall, Evans Creek will have native runs of chinook as well as runs of coho and sockeye salmon that will pass through the preserve and spawn upstream.
To get there: The Evans
Creek Preserve is located on the south side of Redmond-Fall City Road (SR202)
about a mile east of the SR202/Sahalee Way intersection. Heading east on SR202,
look for the sign on the right side of the road that says NE 34th Street – Private Road,
turn right and go a short distance down the road. There is a 10-car parking lot
with signs and maps.
