I have been to this park several times since moving to the area a few years back. It's great for walking dogs as there are expensive walking paths with little off roading trails that my dogs love. There is a surprising amount of water access to what I imagine is Spanaway Lake. It felt pretty warm to my hand the other day, mid August. There were several people swimming and lots of boating activities out farther away. Still super loud though. It's a really big park so even though there are lots of people there, you don't feel on top of each other.

There are 4 different areas, A- D before the road now gets blocked off. I use area B, it seems to be the one for families, picnics, swimming access, where the walking trails are the best, just an area to hang out doing your thing. I think area A might be a special access area? Parking is sort of restricted. Section C looks like the sports area where multiple teams were playing lots of things on designated fields. Section D was maybe another family area but didn't seem to have the space B has and I'm not sure if the trails continue there. I know there's a boat launch somewhere and it might be there?

All in all, it was nice, peaceful, everyone keeping to themselves and enjoying the space and the weather. my dogs got lots of sniffing and marking in and even got chewed out by a squirrel! How exciting!!

O, the reason I took a * off was because this time I had to pay a $3 to get in! Never had to do that before and it was lucky I had the $$ on me. I just don't know that I can stay there long enough to feel like I used $3 worth of whatever, when every other park I know of is free?