Log Boom Park

The shoreline at Log Boom Park in Kenmore is ground where loggers once ran mills and held log booms, those clusters of floating logs cinched inside cables [1]. Some pilings dating back to 1902 remain visible [1]. The public fishing pier, six hundred feet of it, was built over the original pilings [1]. The park also carries the name Tracy Owen Station, added in 1987 for Tracy Owen, a longtime Kenmore resident and a King County Councilman who had died [1]. The Kenmore History Path went in during 2008, eleven interpretive signs walking a visitor from the area's geological beginnings up through the city's incorporation in 1998 [1]. It sits on 3.9 acres and reaches more than 1,200 lineal feet of Lake Washington waterfront [1]. What stays with me is the plainness of it: the same water, the same pilings, doing a different job [1].