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TRACKS

Youth Sports

TRACKS

TRACKS is a Parks & Community Services initiative promoting outdoor adventure, youth leadership and environmental stewardship. TRACKS' mission is to encourage outdoor opportunities for all ages, abilities and income levels, opportunities that develop life skills and knowledge for a healthy community. TRACKS group adventure participants

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TRACKS was started in the spring of 2007 amid growing concern and research identifying a "nature deficit" within society. Since its inception, TRACKS has effectively infused many Bellevue programs and activities with its six key standards:

Teaching - teaches skills to help people recreate on their own, such as Urban Cycling Techniques.
Recreation - provides a healthy option to enhance fitness, such as Family and Friends Snowshoe Adventure.
Adventure - offers opportunities for active, experiential learning, such as Teens Outside High Adventure Camps.
Competency - helps build skill mastery, such as Skaters in the Woods.
Knowledge - promotes understanding of the natural environment, such as Eastside Explorers Speaker Series.
Stewardship - encourages and creates opportunities for stewardship and volunteer service, such as Stewardship Saturdays and Teens Outside.

TRACKS Programs

Wilderness Wednesdays - Out of school early and looking for a new adventure? Join our guides on one of the amazing trails only a stone's throw from Bellevue. We will meet at Highland Community Center and head out from there. Come dressed for all weather; any additional gear is provided.

Ages: 11 to 14 years.
Fees: $10.
When: Wednesdays - May 15, May 22, May 29 and June 5
1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (subject to change based on destination).
Where: Meet in Highland Community Center Lobby, 14224 Bel-Red Road.
To register: www.myparksandrecreation.com, activities 75354, 75355, 75356 and 75357.
Required waiver: Please print, fill out and bring required waiver/information form.

High Adventure Summer Camps - Test your limits this summer by spending a week forty feet above the ground on the South Bellevue high ropes course, riding awesome moutain bike trails, climbing, hiking and spending a night backpacking deep in the Cascade Mountains. Guides will teach essential outdoor skills. No experience is necessary. Most outdoor gear and meals for the overnight trip are provided. Build confidence, leadership skills and solid friendships on this weeklong adventure!

Ages: 12 to 17 years.
Fees: $300 (resident) and $310 (non-resident).
To register: http://www.myparksandrecreation.com/ActivitySearch/default.aspx, activities 74237, 74238, 74239, 74240 and 74243.

Volunteer -to volunteer with the TRACKS program, or if you are a teen looking for service hours, please email jwalenga@bellevuewa.gov .

TRACKS in the news - Seattle Outdoor Recreation Examiner and on BTV .

Look for TRACKS in the Connections recreation brochure to find classes, activities and events that are part of the TRACKS initiative.

View Ken Burns' new "National Parks: America’s Greatest Idea" clip about youth and the outdoors.

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Contact Information

TRACKS
Parks & Community Services
PO Box 90012
Bellevue, WA 98009
Contact: Jenna Walenga
Phone: 425-452-6883
E-mail: TRACKS@bellevuewa.gov
Contact: Joe Moorman
Phone: 425-452-6883

Related Links

Environmental Stewardship

Nature Trails

Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center

Climbing Wall

Walking/Biking Bellevue

Family, Youth & Teen Svcs