UW Bothell students, Kenmore and local geocacher publish Adventure Lab trail to highlight waterfront park

University of Washington Bothell students, City of Kenmore staff and longtime Kenmore resident Jeff Weaver published a new Adventure Lab geocaching trail meant to guide visitors through the history and environmental restoration of a Kenmore waterfront park.

The Adventure Lab was created as the group project for the first-year class “Art and Politics of Walking,” taught by UW Bothell professor Jason Lombacher. The project used the Adventure Lab mobile app (a geocaching.com product) to place multiple virtual waypoints at the park, each with a question or prompt unlocked when a user approaches the mapped location.

Students researched the park’s past uses, native plants and tribes associated with the site and the city’s capital improvements, and then distilled that material into short, location-based prompts. Dana Washington, UW…