What we sent to the Thurston Regional Planning Council in support to take the Log Cabin Extension Road out of any future transportation plans:
Rock Candy Running has been hosting our Little Backyard Adventure races at LBA park and woods since 2019. What has started as a local trail run celebrating this incredible trails has since become an event of national recognition with runners from as far away as Ohio, Nebraska, Colorado and Southern California coming to Olympia, spending the weekend in our community and racing our LBA races. We’re not the only ones running these trails. The Olympia High School cross country team’s home course is in these amazing woods and many other neighbors from near and far come and run LBA regularly. If the road would be built we most likely couldn’t continue hosting this event, which would have an economic impact on us, the city, and quite frankly, would just be a huge bummer.
Rock Candy Running strongly opposes the idea that we need another road there, and through these woods, destroying so much that the city loves, the neighbors regularly use and the animals and wildlife enjoy.
We encourage you to make your voice heard and reach out to the Thurston Regional Planning Council to share your thoughts. You can send your comments to: info@trpc.org or use this online form.
To learn more about the issue, here’s the draft 2050 Regional Transportation Plan.
And here’s a list of additional reason
