SEQUIM — A state park on the Miller Peninsula might as well be in the Arctic Circle, it’s been put so firmly on ice.
“A shift in priority” has removed the park — which the state owns but has not developed — from projects for Washington State Parks’ centennial celebration in 2013, said Peter Herzog, senior parks planner.
“We had great momentum. We had a lot of steam built up,” he told about two-dozen people Monday at Sequim’s Guy Cole Convention Center.
But in facing reduced economic expectations, the state Legislature told parks officials to fix what’s broken at the parks they already have, Herzog said.
Steven Gilstrom, manager of Sequim Bay State Park, said the 3,000 acres on the Miller Peninsula — land that straddles the Clallam/Jefferson county line between Sequim and Discovery Bays — had become “land held for a park.”
“There’s zero dollars,” he said, “and no plan to use those dollars if we had them.”
