Join Washington’s National Park Fund for one of our upcoming Fireside Circles! These enjoyable gatherings bring park friends – old and new – together with park rangers and superintendents for an evening of community building and casual conversation.
In-Park Fireside Circles bring people together for an overnight in Mount Rainier, North Cascades, or Olympic National Parks. Together, we learn about the challenges the parks face, the work that these tireless rangers are carrying out, and what’s ahead. We’ll enjoy guided hikes, talks with biologists, superintendents, and rangers, and unique experiences throughout our stay.
Bring together your neighbors, family, friends, and colleagues for an evening with Washington’s National Park Fund and park staff. Neighborhood Fireside Circles are intimate events hosted in homes, businesses, and community spaces with good food, conversation, park guests, and programming to educate guests on the parks. Interested in hosting one of our Fireside Circles in your neighborhood? Let us know.
See what’s on the horizon:
There are none scheduled at this time, but you can be the first to know as more are added by subscribing to our emails or view other upcoming events in our Events page.
Our 2024 Return to Paradise event was a resounding success, with many park partners and supporters who came together for a night of paddle raising and mountain gazing.
Thanks to your support, we raised nearly $130,000 for the parks!
These gifts will fund park priority projects that will help create the next generation of national park and public land stewards.
Projects like education programs that bring local students into North Cascades National Park, the thousands of volunteers in Mount Rainier National Park who contribute tens of thousands of hours of service every year, helping to share the wonder of the Mountain with young visitors, and partnerships in Olympic that provide park experiences to kids from all backgrounds through the Middle School Science program and Adventures in Your Big Backyard.
We celebrated Mount Rainier National Park’s 125th birthday and were joined by members of the Whittaker family as we honored WNPF Co-Founder Lou Whittaker’s legacy of support for Washington’s national parks, heard from WNPF’s Board Chair, Tony Hoskins, about some of the things we are excited about here at the Fund, and we got to enjoy one of the incredible parks we support projects in through guided hikes and adventures throughout the weekend.
Thank you to everyone who spent the weekend with us, and to our major sponsor, Guest Services Inc.
If you couldn’t join, you can still make a difference for the parks by making a gift in lieu of attending.
Cover photo: WNPF’s 2019 Women’s Only Weekend by Lindsey Allison Ganahl, and footer photo (below): Olympic National Park by Elizabeth Gonzalez 📷