How a private resort became Martha Lake Park

Day 2 is planned to end at Martha Lake after 10.3 miles. The county park preserves a shoreline that local residents wanted kept in public use.

Martha Lake lies just east of Interstate 5 between Lynnwood and Mill Creek. Snohomish County describes its watershed as largely developed. The lake and its wetlands sit within that suburban landscape, giving this part of the itinerary a different setting from the Seattle streets of the opening day.

The six-acre county park was once a privately operated resort. Its owners proposed condominiums or a business park, but those plans proved infeasible. The Martha Lake Community Club and other residents supported acquiring the property for a public park. The public lakefront grew out of that local effort to keep the land available to the community.

Today the county lists wetland boardwalks and a fishing dock among the park’s features. From here the itinerary continues north to Everett, where the first Awareness Day follows the next walking leg.

From the road

September 8, 2026

Four miles borrowed from tomorrow

A short one. She found somewhere to put the tent early in the evening — tucked away, and safe enough that she could leave the big pack behind and walk two miles up the route and two miles back again without carrying it. That took four miles off the next day, which is the kind of arithmetic that matters six weeks out.

She has asked a great many strangers for a great many things this week, and she has settled into a way of doing it.

Whatever answer you give is okay, it’s the right answer for you. And I receive it without disappointment or judgment.

Jeana Moore

A broad low-branched tree in full leaf on a patch of dry grass, with parked cars and a building behind it.

A halibut cast in dark metal and set flat into a pale concrete sidewalk.

A second sidewalk casting beside it, a long tuna with its fins picked out in relief.

Distance walked: 8 miles

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Print it. Put it where people already stand.

A coffee counter, a church foyer, a break room, a race table. Every sheet carries the code that opens Jeana’s walk, and a number to text for anyone who would rather not scan — no app, no wifi, nothing to hand back.

Flyer

One page, for a wall or a noticeboard. The same sheet in three voices.

Table tent

One page that folds and stands on a table or a counter.

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Martha Lake

This day on the route