Word on the Street » Northwest Trek http://blog.thenewstribune.com/street The latest news in and around Tacoma, Pierce County and South Puget Sound Wed, 22 May 2013 20:27:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Northwest Trek set to reopen after cleaning up from January storms http://blog.thenewstribune.com/street/2012/02/16/northwest-trek-set-to-reopen-after-cleaning-up-from-january-storms/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/street/2012/02/16/northwest-trek-set-to-reopen-after-cleaning-up-from-january-storms/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:53:53 +0000 Stacey Mulick http://blog.thenewstribune.com/street/?p=10279 Northwest Trek will reopen Friday after volunteers and staff spent weeks cleaning up debris and repairing damage from a series of January storms.

The park was last open to the public Jan. 13-15. In the following days, snow and ice hammered the Eatonville-area park. Sixty mph wind gusts and pounding rain followed.  The park lost power for five days.

The storms weighed down branches and thousands of the limbs – some as heavy as 200 to 300 pounds – broke off.

Several exhibits were severely damaged. Nearly four miles of fencing around the park’s 435-acre, free-roaming area were taken out. …

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