{"id":3738,"date":"2020-09-30T15:40:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T22:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/?page_id=3738"},"modified":"2020-10-02T13:33:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T20:33:59","slug":"cowiche-canyon-trail-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/cowiche-canyon-trail-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowiche Canyon Trail Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/assets\/cowiche3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3757\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Yakima&#8217;s Cowiche Canyon Trail project includes constructing a 10-foot wide graveled pedestrian<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>pathway with two bridges over Cowiche Creek from Powerhouse Road to the existing Cowiche Canyon Trailhead.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trail will be approximately 2 miles long.&nbsp; Funding for the project comes from a $2 million \u201cConnecting Washington\u201d grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other details and project timeline:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The project will be completed in two phases, beginning with the downstream section.<\/li><li>Phase 1 of the project is 30 percent designed, including a new 180-foot pedestrian bridge<\/li><li>Challenging structural elements to the pedestrian bridge requires investigatory geotechnical drilling to begin in Octobet 2020.<\/li><li>Final design of Phase 1 is anticipated to be completed by the first quarter of 2021<\/li><li>Construction is expected to begin in Spring 2021<\/li><li>Work on the upstream section, Phase 2, will begin in 2021.<\/li><li>Project includes improvements to the trailhead and parking area at the eastern trailhead.<\/li><li>Due to COVID-19, future communications and stakeholder engagement will be virtual and may include on-line open houses.<\/li><li>In 2018, the City of Yakima held meetings with property owners in the project area, as well as stakeholders, to gain input on the trail design.<\/li><li>The trail alignment is on the previous BNSF railroad right-of-way.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information contact the City of Yakima Engineering Division at 575-6111.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/assets\/cowiche-creek-t_49115421-1-1024x420.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3764\" width=\"592\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/assets\/cowiche-creek-t_49115421-1-1024x420.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/assets\/cowiche-creek-t_49115421-1-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/assets\/cowiche-creek-t_49115421-1-768x315.png 768w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/assets\/cowiche-creek-t_49115421-1-1536x630.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/assets\/cowiche-creek-t_49115421-1-2048x839.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Yakima&#8217;s Cowiche Canyon Trail project includes constructing a 10-foot wide graveled pedestrian pathway with two bridges over Cowiche Creek from Powerhouse Road to the existing Cowiche Canyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3738","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3738\/revisions\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}