LandCare

About LandCare

There's a stretch of Renton where Lake Washington meets the land at Gene Coulon Park, where joggers and dog-walkers keep the paved trail busy even in the cold, and where a hard freeze turns the puddled boat-launch lot into a mirror. LandCare clears that shoreline edge of town — the walking paths, the HOA courtyards, the driveways of the homes that back up to the water — working early enough that the trail is safe again before the first walkers show up in their coats. The lake itself rarely freezes, but the air off it does something colder to the asphalt right along the shore than it does two blocks inland, and that's the strip that needs the most attention. It's steady, patient work: salt down, shovel through, check the shaded north sides of buildings where the ice holds on longest. By midmorning the waterfront is moving again, gulls back on the docks, the cold just another thing the day absorbed.