It's a Bear-y, Berry Excellent Feast Saturday & Sunday at NW Trek Wildlife Park

Bears will chow down on first-of-the-season locally grown strawberries at 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

EATONVILLE, Wash. – Bears and berries. They go together like peanut butter and strawberry jam.

And the bears at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park are in for special treats this weekend. They’ll get one of  those first delicious tastes of summer with fresh-picked, locally grown strawberries.

Plus, weather forecasters predict sunshine and temperatures in the 70s, so it’s a great weekend to meet Northwest Trek’s two new black bears.

The 6-year-old brother and sister went on public exhibit for the first time last week.

The bears, orphaned as cubs in Oregon, lived at the Topeka Zoo most of their lives.

So moving into a 1-acre, lushly forested exhibit at Northwest Trek was “coming home” to the Northwest.

Northwest Trek has four bears, the two black bears and two grizzly bears.

The bears’ Bear-y, Berry Excellent Feast is scheduled at 1 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.

Watching them chow down on the fruits of the land is a wonderful sight – and it’s free with admission or membership to Northwest Trek.

The wildlife park is a short drive from anywhere in the Seattle-Tacoma area, so it’s a great day trip.

Fresh air. Fresh scents of evergreen trees. Bears and fresh berries. A re-fresh-ing experience.