Paid parking started today at Snoqualmie Falls Park

June 1, 2017 4:54 pm
The gift shop parking area, just past the Salish Lodge, will be transitioning to paid parking on May 1. (Courtesy Photo)
The gift shop parking area, just past the Salish Lodge, will be transitioning to paid parking on May 1. (Courtesy Photo)

Thursday, June 1, was the first day that paid parking was in effect at the Snoqualmie Falls Park in Snoqualmie.

The change, delayed from a planned May 8 start, affects only the 50 parking spots in the Snoqualmie Falls Park gift shop lot. ADA parking spots will still be available and nine paid spots for motorcycles in the gift shop lot.

Parking will remain free in the upper lot, which can accommodate more than 300 vehicles.

Puget Sound Energy, which operates the park in conjunction with its hydroelectric project, has also arranged for overflow parking, for 150 vehicles, further down S.R. 202, at Snoqualmie Parkway at Railroad Avenue.