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Where in the World? Find This Place in Issaquah

Each week we'll feature a photo of someplace in Issaquah or Sammamish. Give us your best guess in the comments as to where it is.

Posted by Margaret Santjer (Editor), February 26, 2013 at 05:47 pm

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If you've got kids, you may have a good idea of where this is. We frequently visit this spot, which features other attractions, too.

Do you know where this is? What's your favorite thing about this place? Let us know in the comments.

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Kathy February 26, 2013 at 08:22 pm

Train park in downtown Issaquah

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Margaret Santjer (Editor) February 26, 2013 at 08:31 pm

Good answer, Kathy! We also had folks who correctly guessed Depot Park over on our FB page. https://www.facebook.com/SammamishIssaquahWAPatch
We'll have to make this tougher for the next installment!

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Yikes! I had an encounter on Tiger Mountain with what I think was a cougar on June 9. We weren't…Read More close enough to see it (thank goodness) but could hear it, and what sounded like another animal dying/being eaten. This was about 3:30 p.m. a couple miles up the trail from Issaquah High School.

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Jenny Manning, this area lies on the WUI, Wildland-Urban Interface, and we have bears, cougars,…Read More bobcats, and other of nature's fauna. Your comment indicates that you have not read my Patch blogs trying to dispel myths and fears of our local predators, and that you have little understanding of our biggest cat, the cougar. I would also venture that you have not availed yourself of the many outreach events held in this area regarding our wildlife. To state you had an "encounter" when you did not even have a 'sighting' is a misuse of clearly defined terminology for wildlife interactions. You might avail yourself of Western Wildlife Outreach's excellent materials regarding cougars and other apex carnivores in the Northwest: http://westernwildlife.org/cougar-outreach-project/cougar-safety/ To have heard "something" might well have been an animal being eaten, but to assume a cougar was having dinner, and the cougar was announcing it to the world, is a bit of a stretch. What, exactly, is the sound made by a cougar while killing a meal? As a stalk and pounce predator, mountain lions are silent in their approach. They efficiently kill, and unless taking down larger prey such as an elk, the prey's struggle is usually short, if any at all. Also, to make sounds while eating is to attract attention, and attention is what cougars avoid. Perhaps, though, you heard a cougar caterwauling? That is a call to attract a mate, one of the few times cougars do not want to avoid attention. Welcome to the Pacific Northwest. Your best way to be safe in our outdoors is to be knowledgeable about our wildlife, and to carry Bear Spray, pretty much in that order.

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