Narbeck Wetland Sanctuary

This park next to the Everett Boeing campus offers recreational trails through a wetland with interpretive signs along the way. The park is often used as an outdoor classroom for groups. For exercise, the park is fairly flat and has one longer trail called the Perimeter Trail. In reality, the trail should be called the Half Perimeter Trail since it only goes around half of the perimeter of the park. The inner loop trail is a half mile and has the interesting boardwalks and interpretive signs.

Before Snohomish County, which owns and operates Paine Field Airport, could impact several small wetlands on airport property for runway safety projects, it needed to create new wetlands. The 50-acre Narbeck Wetland site, was one of two results. Creating new wetlands in advance of impacting other wetlands is called mitigation banking. The Airport enhanced and built wetlands, wetland buffers and wildlife habitat at Narbeck creating the first wetland mitigation bank in Washington State. Narbeck Wetland Sanctuary was dedicated and opened on July 31, 1999.