Sakai Park

Sakai Park is named for the Sakai Family who farmed this land as a strawberry farm until they were sent to an internment camp during World War II. After the war, they returned to the land and ultimately sold it to the Bainbridge School District. 

From the ferry terminal, it is a one-mile walk on a paved, separated trail alongside SR 305 that is smooth and barrier-free and gains 200 feet of elevation. Turn left and cross the street at the junction with High School Road NE. At the next intersection, turn right onto Madison Ave N — the park will be on your right. 

It’s a short walk on a wood chip trail to Pia, one of the new trolls across the Greater Seattle area. 

From there, you can do a short loop around the park, or head down across the creek to the pond and across to the intersection by the Safeway shopping area.

All the trails are wide, wood-chipped and smooth, no roots or rocks. Watch out for deep water on some trails during times of heavy rain. The trails in a loop around the troll on the Madison Ave side of the park are flat. If you go down to the pond you will lose and then gain about 40 feet (80 feet if you continue up to the trail on the east side of the park).

The trails near the troll are more open meadow surrounded by forest, and deeper forest is around you near the pond and the creek. 

There is a wheelchair-accessible port-a-potty near the parking and the troll (within 200 feet).

This is an excellent year-round hike! Some low parts of the trail near the pond may be underwater during times of heavy rain.