Tolt-MacDonald Park

Sal is a voice that rides along as you drive Washington's roads: the road ahead, the pass, the stories of the places you pass.

A Boy Scout Council chief named John MacDonald had the vision for this park, and he led local efforts on what was one of the nation's largest bicentennial projects. King County had bought the first public parcels in the 1970s, and then the Scouts went to work. More than 20,000 of them spent some five months building campsites, picnic tables and shelters. The Army Reserves 409th Engineering Company put up the suspension bridge across the Snoqualmie River around the same time. The park was dedicated in June 1976, once the project was finished. That bridge ended up on the National Register of Historic Places. The park sits where the Tolt meets the Snoqualmie, and the name carries both the river and the man. [1]