We have a big year behind us and a bigger year ahead of us. 2017 marked the beginning of a new era of partnership with the City of Mount Vernon, the Mount Vernon Parks Department, the Parks Foundation, and our newly minted trail building group: the Little Mountain Trail Builders.
Big Things Are Happening @ Little Mountain
Flagging the New Flow Trail
Now that we are through with that nasty spell of smoky weather the smell of fall is in the air, and on Little Mountain that means TRAIL BUILDING. We successfully completed the new connector trail this spring and summer, and after our summer break in August are excited to be tackling a bigger fish this fall- Little Mountain's first Mountain Bike Flow trail.
MVPF Launches "Little" Mountain School For Local Students
This spring our all-volunteer Mount Vernon Parks Foundation launched a new program it developed for bringing Mount Vernon School District fifth grade classrooms to Little Mountain Park. The intent of the field trips were to link the students’ experiences at the North Cascades Institute's Mountain School in North Cascades National Park to environments much closer to home…