Moran Park Clean Up in 2012 , when Friends raked rocks and dirt, spread seeds and straw around the new play structure. Friends President Michel Vekved says, “This year, there is grass surrounding a well-loved often very busy play structure.”
Saturday, April 13 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Moran Park
From the Friends of Moran
We invite you to the Friends of Moran Annual Park Clean Up April 13th 8 am to 4pm Cascade Lake Day use area. Lunch generously and graciously provided by Karen and Ken Speck along with Pat Muffett. We have tentatively arranged for a lecture about Laminated Root Rot.
This year in addition to spending a day in the park, we want to appeal to your sense of community, economy and island visitors. You are asked to shop local and support local-so we are asking you to come support us. Help us clean up the significant gem that the 800,000 annual visitors come to see. They will hike, swim and camp in Moran, indulging in its beauty, serenity and scenery. Then they will dine, shop, relax, unwind and reminisce about what an amazing place we call home.
Invest your time in our state park. Bring some gloves, bring some friends. It’s a great way to spend a few hours or the whole day. There is a lot of work to be done. Our park has been impaired, the rangers severely limited by staff cuts and mounting projects. We hope you value our state park, its impact on our community and local economy and that you will come help.
I surely wish the park would make more of an effort to be inclusive. So many people are wondering what is happening…and understandably! I feel as if the park resents us being here in their space! For example, why was there absolutely no publicity about the recent “free” day? To keep up from coming?
800,000 people visit Moran State Park each year? Just curious where this figure comes from…
On behalf of Friends of Moran, a nonprofit, all volunteer group which tirelessly works to support our state park, we have written informative articles for Orcas Issues and the newspaper. We have also tried to keep our community and our visitors as up to date as possible through our web page and Facebook regarding park projects, status of budget cuts and uncertain funding.
Our visitor number comes from a car count in the park as well as historical numbers provided by the park.
The free day’s are posted on our web page; granted those dates are down the page a bit due to the budget updates we are trying to provide on a timely basis.
We were remiss in getting the recent date into the paper and for that we apologize. We will make greater efforts from here on. We hope you’ll check our website. Thank you for your comments and support.
There must be a decimal point missing from that 800,000 visitor count. Or, perhaps birds and other critters are included. If it is only people, then over 2,000 of us visit the park each day and I don’t think that is a reasonable estimate.
I am concerned about the fishing platform. It has a serious list to it and when more than 3 or 4 people are fishing on it, water comes over the edge. It seems like it is an accident waiting to happen.