City of University Place announcement.
City of U.P. staff joined their partners from the City of Lakewood and Pierce County to capitalize on the summer weather to make more progress on the 2.5-mile Chambers Creek Canyon Trail that will connect the three entities before reaching the trail system at Chambers Creek Regional Park.
The first of three footbridges is now in place, spanning Chambers Creek at the eastern end of the canyon near the Chambers Creek Road and Kobayashi Park trailheads. Funding has been secured for the second bridge near the Zircon Drive SW trailhead and construction is slated to begin in 2023.
Watch the video below to see the progress that has been made and learn more about this wonderful way to experience the beauty of the Pacific Northwest here in University Place.
I am in total on favor of enhancing nature trails. I recently took a walk down from the new bridge over on the Lakewood side of the creek. My concern is with all the dead trees on both sides of the creek. On the Lakewood side if we ever had fire in the canyon especially with the amount of dead wood. There is no entrance for the fire department to get equipment close enough to fight a fire. You really need to address in your long term planning
I agree with you about the old trees are easely to have a fire from the dead trees and dry tall grass along side the trails and down by the creek.
I hope someone from this project either the city of Lakewood or University Place or the Landscape engineer, will pick up your message and comment here