I call this Chambers Creek with some reservations. Chambers Creek itself actually empties into the Sound a little ways south of here, but the name of this new Pierce County park in University Place is Chambers Creek Properties. The park, and the adjacent Chambers Bay golf course, are built in the space left behind after a hundred years of mining gravel along the steep bluffs of Puget Sound (Pioneer: October 2010).
The golf course is a strange landscape of dune-like hills and will be the site of the 2015 U.S. Open. The park is a strange landscape of rolling meadow, muddy dog park, and old gravel mine archaeology. A sweeping pedestrian bridge provides access over the busy railroad to the beach, where the gravel used to be loaded onto barges for the trip to concrete plants in Seattle and Tacoma.
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