<mapframe text="Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park" width=242 height=180 zoom=11 latitude=47.816667 longitude=-122.6/> Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park is a county park founded in 2014, and is the largest in Kitsap County, Washington. It contains of trails.
The park property was acquired from Pope Resources/Olympic Resource Management, a forestry company, partly in direct purchases by the county government, and partly by the Forterra land conservation non-profit corporation who raised funds through individual donations and grants. A Gift to the Region: Over 1,500 More Acres of Port Gamble Forest Secured On Kitsap Peninsula, Forterra, December 22, 2017
Olympic Resource Management's Olympic Property Group proposed a public trail system in its Port Gamble property 2007. Invoking the Olmsted Brothers park planning, local groups envisioned a regional "String of Pearls" trail plan 2011 in the Pacific Northwest linking water trails linking the Olympic National Park on the Olympic Peninsula with the Kitsap Peninsula. A proposed system, the Sound to Olympics Trail, would allow one to cross Washington State by foot on a continuous trail system from the Pacific Ocean to the Idaho border. Kitsap County plans to embody a portion of the Sound to Olympics Trail in the Port Gamble Forest.
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