The Sammamish River Trail
Near Woodinville, Washington
The paved path running through the heart of Woodinville is one of the region's great recreational corridors, the Sammamish River Trail. It stretches roughly ten miles along the river from Blyth Park in Bothell to the sprawling Marymoor Park in Redmond, following the same low valley that early settlers once navigated by boat. At its northwestern end the trail links directly to the Burke Gilman Trail, and together they form a continuous ribbon of car free travel reaching all the way into Seattle.
Like many of the region's great trails, this route rides on a landscape reshaped for movement, threading a valley that was drained, straightened, and opened first for farms and later for recreation. Today the trail is a signature of Woodinville life. Cyclists, runners, and families roll past pasture, wetland, and vineyard, and because the tasting rooms cluster so close to the path, plenty of visitors bike from winery to winery rather than drive.
On a clear summer day you will pass great blue herons in the shallows and cyclists with picnic baskets, all sharing a flat, easy corridor that ties the whole valley together, from suburban parks to the wine country lawns.
