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We are your resource in East King County for court-ordered community service! We do trash cleanups year round in the great outdoors.

Call us to inquire about working your hours off or just plain volunteering with us! We have come to realize that there are many organizations dedicated to caring for the environment and maintenance of our hiking trails and recreation areas. But there are few, if any, organizations dedicated to cleaning up public areas that see much abuse from illegal dumping, shooting and littering, including the heavily used recreational areas. We fill this need to return our public lands and waterways to their pristine state, in the most cost-effective manner. There are many positive effects of our work such as improved wildlife habitat and water quality, prevention of other occurrences of illegal dumping, and contributing towards a more livable Washington for all its citizens.

10/29/2026

Friends of the Trail removed 34 tires dumped in the parking lot for the Granite Mountain Trailhead on the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest near North Bend, Washington. All of the hikers who observed us thanked us for our dedication.

10/23/2026

Friends of the Trail cleans up trash by the boat ramp in Fall City, Washington - yet again.

10/07/2026

Friends of the Trail adds a collection of bike tires dumped on a roadside in Algona, Washington, to its daily haul of furniture and other trash off our public lands and waterways.

10/01/2026

Act now to keep roads out of national forest roadless areas! Roads like this one are where almost all illegal dumping happens. Across the valley in roadless areas? Not an issue. And areas with roads are where most wildfires start, because most wildfires are human-caused and roads are where most humans are. Even with today's increasing wildfire danger, most wildfires that threaten communities don't start in roadless areas. Please take a few minutes today to voice your support for keeping the 2001 Roadless Rule in place at https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS-2025-0001-223869 and keeping our last remaining Forest Service roadless lands roadless. That rule already has exceptions that allow wildfire prevention and management in roadless areas. 45 million acres across the country are at risk, and the stakes couldn't be higher. The deadline is this coming Tuesday, October 6, at midnight Eastern time! Building more roads is only going to make the trash and wildfire problems worse, in addition to decimating precious and increasingly scarce wildlife habitat, degrading water quality, destroying trails and spoiling scenic recreation areas with ugly road scars and clearcuts. Thank you from Friends of the Trail for helping keep trash out of our national forests and helping keep wild areas wild!

09/24/2026

Here's our recent tire cleanup on Vashon Island, Washington. A volunteer group pulled the tires out of the water, then Friends of the Trail went over to load them and remove them to the tire recycling place. And who pitched in to deal with the ones that were too big for even us to handle? None other than our trusty partners, Todd's Towing of North Bend!

09/16/2026

Owe court ordered community service in Washington state? Know anybody who does? The weather's still warm and dry, so there's no better time to get your hours in in the great outdoors than now, before the fall rains start. And there's no better organization to get your hours in with than Friends of the Trail. In just a matter of a few hours, you can help turn the scenery (?) on the left into the scenery (!) on the right, as we did here in Auburn. Come and help keep your beautiful state clean and green. We do this almost every day, Wednesdays through Sundays! That's right, weekends, too, so you don't have to take time off from your day job. Most courts accept community service hours put in with us, and since we go out for one full day at a time, you get 8 hours in a pop! Call 425-831-5486 and discover how quick and hassle free it is to get on one of our cleanup crews, led by our friendly crew leaders. And in case you find that the summer has slipped by before you have a chance to get your hours in, remember that we are here for you year round!

09/08/2026

Our nonprofit organization, conducting cleanups on your public lands and waterways in Washington state, just got our 600th follower on Facebook this evening, and we coudn't be more delighted at the outpouring of public support for our efforts. And now it's time to recognize the people who make it happen: our trusty, hard working full and part time crew leaders respectively, Mark and Ed (pictured here); our founder and executive director, Wade, who coordinates everything and keeps the organization going, and his wife, Tania, our part time administrator who hauls in the grant money and does our bookkeeping and tax work, in addition to holding down her full time day job and raising their son - and they hail from (you probably guessed it wrong) Texas! - Board member Bob, who goes out and personally works on many of the cleanups, and our half dozen or so other Board members, who serve without pay; the hundreds upon hundreds of volunteers and community service folks who donate their time and effort to get the trash off the ground and out of the water; and the many, many folks from the community who opened their wallets and donated to our efforts on Reinig Road in Snoqualmie and allowed us to use their donations for our other cleanups when we had to throw in the towel on Reinig Road. You are the reason we've been keeping Washington clean and green for the last 30 years. Thank you!

09/07/2026

Collecting and bagging the trash underneath the South Fork Snoqualmie River bridge in North Bend, Washington, yesterday morning - and then, voilà! We're done! Which do you prefer, before or after our cleanup?

09/07/2026

Here we are, pulling the trash out of the South Fork Snoqualmie River and up and off its banks yesterday morning in North Bend, Washington. And keep in mind, the temperature of the water in the river wasn't exactly tropical!

09/06/2026

Here's what we found this morning underneath the Bendigo Boulevard Bridge between South Fork Avenue and Park Street in North Bend, Washington, tipped off by a community member. We hauled out enough trash to fill an 8 foot truck bed 5 feet high. This is a chronic problem spot, and most of the trash is believed to originate with an individual living in the bridge rafters. That individual was present this morning, as was a King County Sheriff's deputy, who directed the individual to vacate. The individual complied.

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North Bend, WA
98045

Telephone

+14258315486

Website

http://friendsofthetrail.org/

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