King County Metro’s Trailhead Direct shuttle service will be returning for the summer of 2021, giving broader transportation access to Seattle residents who want to get outdoors and do some hiking after being cooped up at home for a year.
Growing in popularity each year, Trailhead Direct began as a two-year pilot program in 2017 offering bus services to popular trailheads with hopes to alleviate parking needs and broaden access to the outdoors. In 2019, the service provided approximately 17,500 hikers with transpiration.
But amid the uncertainties early on in the pandemic, the 2020 season of the shuttle service was canceled last March. Now with vaccination efforts ramping up and the
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