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Kitsap Self-Guided Rain Garden Tour

Rain Garden Tour – Interactive Map

North Kitsap

  • Bainbridge Island – Winslow Way
    • Rain gardens line this main street through the heart of downtown Bainbridge Island. They contain a variety of ornamental and native plants, and are part of an integrated, pedestrian-friendly street renovation. Winslow Way, Bainbridge Island, between Hwy 305 and Madison Avenue
  • Bainbridge Island – Rotary Park
    • The recent redevelopment of this neighborhood park added extensive, lushly planted rain gardens and a new playground to the existing ballfields. The large rain gardens curve around the parking lot and playground. 969 Weaver Road, Bainbridge Island WA 98110.
  • Bainbridge Island – Bay Hay and Feed
    • Water from the roofs of the nursery, gift shop and feed buildings, and the parking lot, is filtered by the rain garden located at the lower edge of the property. An interpretive sign explains the rain garden features. 10355 NE Valley Road, Bainbridge Island WA 98110.
  • Poulsbo – Fish Park
    • The main parking lot drains to a rain garden in its center, which is overflowing with native wetland shrubs and sedges. There is an interpretive sign for the rain garden, and signs throughout the park highlighting the local plants, animals, and ecosystems. Lindvig Way, Poulsbo WA 98370.
  • Poulsbo – Noll Road Roundabout
    • This new roundabout drains to rain gardens on its western side, and the rain gardens continue west, along Lincoln Road. This “complete street” also uses green infrastructure such as a pervious asphalt pedestrian and bike path. Noll Road at Lincoln Road, Poulsbo WA 98370.

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Central Kitsap/Silverdale

  • Silverdale – Roadhouse Nursery
    • This beautifully landscaped rain garden uses many ornamental plants well-suited but under-used in rain garden applications. The rain garden collects runoff from the nursery’s driveway, and cleans it of automotive pollutants from the road. This is especially vital to protect the water quality in the nursery’s onsite ponds. 12511 Central Valley Road, Poulsbo WA 98370.
  • Haselwood Silverdale YMCA Campus
    • Built in 2010, the Silverdale YMCA campus was designed with extensive green stormwater systems. Water flows down through the pervious concrete and permeable pavement areas into gravel storage areas below, then is released into the rain gardens. The nine rain gardens also accept and filter water from the conventional asphalt pavement areas. 3909 NW Randall Way, Silverdale, WA 98383.
  • Jeff Wirtz / Rhododendron Preserve
    • This project was for the Keta Legacy Foundation at a Rhododendron Preserve open to the public. Installed in 2023. 3149 Seabeck Hwy NW.
  • Silver Ridge Elementary School
    • Native planting and two rain gardens. Installed in 2023. 10622 Hillsboro Dr NW, Silverdale, WA 98383.
  • Silverdale Lutheran Congregation Church
    • The paths are walkable by the public. About 10 rain gardens installed in 2021. 1255 NW Mirage Lane, Silverdale, WA 98383.
  • Central Kitsap Presbyterian Church
    • Install in 2021. Two cisterns were installed as well with the overflow going into a rain garden. The cisterns are used to water their community garden. 9300 Nels Nelson Road NW, Bremerton, WA 98311

South Kitsap

  • Bremerton – Illahee Preserve Heritage Park
    • Rain gardens here were renovated in 2016, and feature low-growing native plants. Two large cells filter run-off from parking lots and many helpful interpretive signs about their function and structure are on display. 3200 Riddell Road, Bremerton WA, Parking lot located at 5474 Almira Drive NE, Bremerton, WA 98311.
  • Bremerton – Blueberry Park
    • These well-established rain gardens on the edge of the parking lot filter water from Sylvan Way. With their plantings of blue arctic willow, maiden grasses, and snowberries, the cells appear to be ordinary ornamental landscape plantings. Other green stormwater features on site include pervious pavement and sidewalks, and a green roof on the picnic shelter. 737 Sylvan Way, Bremerton, WA 98310.
  • Bremerton Campus, Olympic College
    • Rain gardens line the street and south parking lot, boasting a wide selection of ornamental, drought-tolerant, and wildlife friendly plant selections. These beautifully planted rain gardens are part of an integrated stormwater management system that also uses porous pavements and bioswales. 1600 Chester Ave, Bremerton WA 98337.
  • Bremerton – Public Works Annex
    • Filtering rain off of the north end of the parking area, this linear-shaped bioretention swale is planted with native plants, sedges, and rushes. 8600 SW Imperial Way, Bremerton, WA 98312.
  • Manchester – Manchester Stormwater Park
    • Located just one block from Puget Sound, this stormwater facility is also a public park. The rain garden and accompanying in-ground chambers cleanse pollutants from the runoff of approximately 100 acres of the Manchester community, before emptying into the bay. The centerpiece of the project is the architecturally striking spiral raingarden. Widespread interpretive signage includes the function of stormwater features, but also local historical use by native tribes and settlers. Corner of Colchester Drive and Main Street, Manchester, WA 98353.
  • Hidden Creek Elementary
    • 5455 Converse Ave SE, Port Orchard, WA 98367.