Our Rover Newsletters featured Alice’s Golden.

Long time Bridle Trails Community Club Board Member, Secretary, and Kirkland Representative passed away in December. Please click on the links below to read more about Alice, who along with her husband Don, were founders of the Bridle Trails Park Foundation. Alice will also be missed by the Lake Washington Saddle Club. Alice was an advocate for the equestrian community, the Park, and trails, including the watching over Kirkland’s housekeeping preservation, The Pikes Peak Water Tower project, and Bellevue’s Ped/Bike Plan.

Alice Prince — Bridle Trails Park Foundation

A Lifelong Equestrian Finds Strength and Happiness at Little Bit — Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center

The News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington, 13 Mar 2002 B1 & B2:

BridleTrails State Park:Alice Prince – Newspapers.com

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007
Subject: BridleTrailsBike/Ped Plan
To: FLoewenherz@bellevuewa.gov; council@bellevuewa.gov

“…. When you’re talking about taking 14 feet out of our park, you’re not only encroaching on a
State Park which our Foundation has bent over backwards to save, but you’re spitting in the face
of the tree ordinance that Bellevue wrote just a year ago, and still, not a word of notification.
At the Tues., Nov. 23rd focus group meeting that the BTCC called, you told people that a lot of
these paths would be widened or paved or both in order to make it easier for bicyclists to get to
Bridle Trails State Park. If you had done your homework ahead of time, you would have known
that bicycles are not now, and will not be, allowed in Bridle Trails State Park. This restriction
went into effect quite some years ago. Both the Foundation and the Lake Washington Saddle
Club have agreements with the State that this is a “natural area” which accomodates horses, not
bicycles. Bicycles and horses are not compatible and the horse people are the reason this
property was made into a State Park in the first place in the early 1930’s, and they have been
stewards of this Park ever since.
The bicyclists have the whole world to ride in. The horse people have Bridle Trails State Park
and the Bridle Trails community. Every time government steps in to pave another trail or to widen
one and open it to more people, the horse community gets squeezed just a little bit more.
Bellevue and the community surrounding Bridle Trails State Park has a legacy worth holding on
to, and yet every time you commit one of these supposed “upgrades” to our community, you tear
gaping holes in the fabric of what makes this community unique…”