- County conducts massive park cleanup (dispatchnews.com)
Snohomish County agencies spent Thursday and part of Friday last week engaged in a massive cleanup effort of the area known as Steelhead County Park, which is located just south of Sultan along the Skykomish River. Widely used by homeless and transient individuals as an illegal camping area, the total weight of the garbage removed from the wooded, riverside piece of property topped out at over 12 tons; roughly equivalent to that of a 38-foot, 84-passenger school bus.
Japanese knotweed near the rocks
Rocky shore of the future Steelhead County Park- Shinglebolt Slough Restoration Project (snohomishcountywa.gov)
The Shinglebolt Slough project is a mainstem, off-channel, riparian, and floodplain restoration project. The project is located along the Skykomish River mainstem and active floodplain. Several project alternatives will be evaluated – looking at existing flood and infrastructure conditions, modeled river hydrology, and predicted changes in river morphology – to determine ecological and flood benefits, as well as infrastructure resiliency needs.
- Steelhead County Park is a proposed park south of Sultan, Washington on the Skykomish River. It is also known as Cracker Bar, especially to the fishing community. The area has had challenges with homeless encampments and criminal activity.