Volunteer Appreciation 2025: Olympics Celebration at Kopachuck State Park
Day Work Party
Sat Nov 8, 2025: 3:00 PM — 5:30 PM
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Region
Olympic Peninsula — Kitsap Peninusla
Features: Bring your family!, Potluck, Special Event
Crew Leader: Jeremy "Jay" Tarife
Overview
Volunteers, thank you for another amazing year. This event is part of our Volunteer Appreciation Week. If you’ve ever volunteered with WTA (or would like to), this event is for you!
Join us for a potluck to celebrate WTA volunteers and their contributions to trails!
About the Area
Kopachuck State Park is a 280-acre, day-use marine park with 5,600 feet of saltwater shoreline on Henderson Bay and a few miles of trail. Kopachuck State Park reopened this past summer and we will be utilizing the newly built day-use center.
If photography is your passion, you'll find the waterside views of Key Peninsula across Carr Inlet and Henderson Bay are great, as well as the distant peaks on the Olympic Peninsula.
What to Expect
Good conversation, updates and a chance to see each other over food.
Project Description
Join us for a potluck to celebrate WTA volunteers and their contributions to trails!
This is an indoor event! We will be setting up at the newly built pavilion. You can bring a dish to share, or join us and bring your own food if you're not comfortable sharing! WTA will provide some main dish options and beverages.
If you do bring a dish to share, consider bringing a tag to go along with your dish listing the ingredients and whether it is vegetarian, vegan, or gluten free!
Hiking Information
This work party does not involve a hike to the work site.
Schedule
- 3 PM: Arrive and set out dishes
- Eat, drink, socialize with fellow volunteers!
- 4:30 PM: Recognize regional accomplishments and celebrate volunteers!
- 5 PM: Wrap up festivities and clean up
Special Event
Volunteers, thank you for another amazing year. This event is part of our Volunteer Appreciation Week. If you’ve ever volunteered with WTA (or would like to), this event is for you!
Join us for a potluck to celebrate WTA volunteers and their contributions to trails!
Planning Information
Join us for a potluck to celebrate WTA volunteers and their contributions to trails!
What it Takes to Do This Work Party
- A great attitude to appreciate all the hard work and effort you put in this year.
What to Wear
Recommended:
- Your best WTA swag or just something comfortable for spending a couple hours eating/drinking/talking indoors!
What to Bring
- Consider bringing an appetizer or dessert to share. Please bring an ingredient list or fill out an ingredient card when you arrive so people with food allergies/restrictions can partake.
- A sense of fun and adventure for meeting great people!
More Information
- If you have any needs or accommodations we should be aware of please let us know. You can enter these details into the comments section of your registration or email volunteer@wta.org
- Check out of full Schedule of Volunteer Appreciation Events
From the Hiking Guide
See what WTA's hiking guide and trip reports say about this area.
Partners
Directions
From Highway 16 North - Take exit for Wollochet Drive/City Center. At light at end of exit ramp proceed straight through onto Stinson Ave and follow for 0.6 miles. Turn left on Rosedale Street NW and follow for 2.9 miles. Turn left onto Ray Nash Dr NW for 0.7 miles. Continue straight onto Kopachuck Dr NW for 1.6 miles. Turn right onto 56th St NW for 0.2 miles to parking lot.
From Highway 16 South - Take exit for Wollochet Drive/City Center. At light at end of exit ramp turn left on Wollochet Drive for 0.2 miles. Turn left onto Stinson Ave and follow for 0.6 miles. Turn left on Rosedale Street NW and follow for 2.9 miles. Turn left onto Ray Nash Dr NW for 0.7 miles. Continue straight onto Kopachuck Dr NW for 1.6 miles. Turn right onto 56th St NW for 0.2 miles to parking lot.
Note: Please follow the written directions above instead of using a GPS device. This will ensure that you get to the correct meeting location for this work party. The location of the pinpoint below is only approximate.
Getting to WTA work parties can involve travel on rough, unpaved roads in areas without cellular service and without street addresses that can be accurately used by navigation devices. Unless specifically noted otherwise, routes can generally be traveled by all types of vehicles. Volunteers with limited experience driving on unpaved mountain roads may want to allow extra time, beyond what is recommended in the directions above, to get to the meeting location.
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