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Forest to Sky Trail
A recent addition to the Bainbridge Island Park District, this .9-mile wooded trail connects the Grand Forest trail network off of Miller Road with popular Battle Point Park, which features a 1.5-mile...
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Grand Forest
A beloved island landmark, the Grand Forest is a 240-acre conservancy park with a complex network of flat and at times steep trails, through forest and riparian wildlife habitat, over bridges, and...
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Battle Point Park
This extremely popular multiuse park on the west side of the Island is a rare combination of wildlife and human activity. At 90 acres, it contains a 1.5-mile loop path, used from sun up to sun down by...
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Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails List
One of the best things about life on Bainbridge Island is our abundance of beautiful parks and trails. Whether you’re up for a stroll with your kids, a brisk walk with your dog, a trot on your horse,...
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Bainbridge Land Trust Plants Flag on Hilltop: Project Gets the Go-Ahead
The Bainbridge Island Land Trust (BILT) just announced that on September 1 it approved the purchase of the Hilltop property, ending a few tense months of uncertainty about the property’s future. The...
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Five Things You Might Not Know About Bainbridge
by Jennifer Pells, Windermere Real Estate/Bainbridge Island 1. Farmer’s Market Is in the Winter Too The last outdoor Farmer’s Market is in a few weeks, on November 12th, and the market has had a great...
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BI Weed Warriors Get Wacky for Holly This Friday and Saturday
What with the rogue blackberries, English ivy, scotch broom, and holly pushing out native plants across Bainbridge, our Island Weed Warriors are a busy bunch. Affiliated with the Bainbridge Island...
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Land Trust Summits Hilltop: Title Transferred, Fundraising Continues
With the transfer of title on November 22, the purchase of the 31-acre Hilltop Property by the Bainbridge Island Land Trust is now complete. BILT is one step closer to its goal of joining the east and...
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One Dog Walker Assaulted by Another Near Grand Forest
Today a 65-year-old woman walking her dogs in the Grand Forest called 911 to report that she had been assaulted by another woman walking her dog. Three police cruisers responded, but the officers were...
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Discover Bainbridge Walks
Ron Williamson was an avid runner and walker. Until he died about a year ago from cancer, he continued to share his love of walking and of Bainbridge trails by leading people on history/nature walks...
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Community Help Needed: Does Anyone Know Who Is Missing a White Poodle?
A reader reported that at 8:23 this morning, May 11, a white poodle was running south of Tolo on Miller Bay Road. The dog ran into the Grand Forest when people from several cars stopped to try to...
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Best of Bainbridge 2013: Your Local Faves
You voted (and voted) for your favorite Bainbridge Island businesses, people, and places. And now the Inside Bainbridge Best of the Island ibbi awards for 2013 have been tabulated (painfully...
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Land Trust Expands Historic East-West Wildlife Corridor
Bainbridge Island Land Trust (BILT) Executive Director Jane Stone is excited. BILT has a contract to purchase a 15-acre parcel of land replete with wildlife that would expand and solidify a vital...
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Weekend on the Rock January 23-25, 2015: AAB Bingo Night Fundraiser
Here are Inside Bainbridge recommendations for the weekend of January 23-25, 2015: 1. 12th Dog Pet Food Drive for Kitsap Humane Society When: Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Where: Bainbridge Self...
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More Details on Biking Coach Jay Abbott’s Accident
[Updated 1/29/15 at 2:26 p.m.] Herman Vroom, the head coach for the Bainbridge Island Gear Grinders high school mountain biking team, was able to share more information about the biking accident of...
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Photo of the Day: Startling Horned Lion at Grand Forest
If you happen to see it and are not expecting it, you’ll surely get a jolt of adrenaline. The furry creature, a sort of humanoid, life-sized horned lion in a cape and what seems to be a blue union...
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Bainbridge Land Trust Wins WA Recreation and Park Association Citation of Merit
The Washington Recreation and Park Association has recognized the Bainbridge Island Land Trust with a Citation of Merit Award. The recognition was awarded at the WRPA Annual Awards Banquet held April...
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Bainbridge Gets Some Horror Cred with New Movie Filmed Here
Wood Witch: The Awakening is—no lie—about a tree that comes to life and scares the bejesus out of two young couples on a camping vacation. The movie, a co-production of Islander Courtney Jones’s Pod...
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Letter to the Editor: How to Interact with Horses in the Grand Forest or...
The Grand Forest is such a beautiful recreational resource, almost unique, and widely utilized by walkers, dog walkers, runners, mountain bikers, mushroomers, and by us on our horses. We ride our...
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