North Meridian Park

It is a quite nice park, lots of trails and an amazing plant diversity for a place in such a populous city like Kent. The vegetation on the trail is not much different from parks in other cities, as there is a mix of natives and nonnatives, but the diversity of natives is relatively higher than many other parks. Some native plants that you don't see in all parks but you can see in this one are Devil's club, vanilla leaf, pacific trillium, bleeding heart, twinberry honeysuckle, and NODDING BOG MARIGOLD!!! There is a spot in the park where big leaf maples have leafs twice as big (or even bigger) than the usual. If you go off trail, the amount of nonnatives is relatively low, bittersweet nightshade is the most common nonnative plant off trail. The southern side of the park is the typical conifer-maple forest, and the southern side is a mix of evergreen-deciduous forest and wetland forest (which I think might mean that this spot where the raverine lowlands start transitioning to the eastern uplands), plus, at the north and northeast ends of the area, there is a true wetland. Among the animals that you can see in the park are western redback salamanders, banana slugs, chocolate arion slugs, possibly pacific sideband snails, steller's jays, pileated woodpeckers (I haven't seen one myselft, but there's signs of their presence) and other birds.nI have to mention that there is a lot of trash among the trails, and a few homeless camps throughout the park.