We're down two people and need your help!
Board President Denny is retiring!
Member Corey stepped away to help family!
Please join your McFarland Farm Property Owners Board of Directors!
To find out more contact Denny at 360-460-4212 or email The Board!
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Thank you to long-time resident Clare Hatler for sharing with us at the annual picnic how her first husband Manny Mantis discovered the Mastodon bones on their property at 256 Lester Way! Now on display at Sequim Museum
New in 2025
MFPOA Board meeting minutes are posted on our Resources page
Walk, run, hike, bike or ride your horse along the Olympic Discovery Trail
or Olympic Adventure Trail
The Pathway to the Pacific !
McFarland Farm Annual Meeting 2026!
Saturday, Jan. 17, 2025, 10 a.m.
Come early at 9 a.m. for the meet and greet.
Location: Masonic Lodge
700 S. 5th Ave in Sequim.
Pastries, donuts, coffee and tea will be provided!
Have you seen our new sign?
What are the odds?
On the day our new McFarland Farm sign was installed on the corner of South McFarland Dr. and Happy Valley Road (Luts property) Lester's great-grandson Mike Farland, along with His grandson Mike McFarland, they were driving by. They stopped their car and got out to look just as the board member Corey Boss (who oversaw the project) drove by.
Corey stopped and had a nice talk with the McFarlands about the old Lester McFarland homestead, and he learned that Lester hand-made the sign himself using lumber from the property. They asked for, and were given, the old sign as a family keepsake.
ACCESS LOCAL TRAILS
Easy Trails in the Dungeness Meadows trail system are right around the corner at the intersection of Happy Valley and River Roads. There are plenty of trails, but the one marked Perimeter Trails loops around the entire area and ensures that you’ll end up back where you started. Open to walkers, cyclists and horses. No motorized vehicles.
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To get there from McFarland Farm turn left on Happy Valley Road. A small section of trails start at the corner of Sorenson Road. Ffom these trails you can cross over River Road to the main trails, and see Dungeness River.
Horse trailer parking is the pullout on the left just prior to River Road. For additional car parking turn right on River Road. Parking on left.
Caution:
Active Neighborhood!
Please drive slow and keep on the watch for people, dogs, deer and cyclists on the road.
Multi-use trails round the corner
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Behind the hill facing Barbara Street is the Burnt Mountain Department of Natural Resources (DNR) multi-use trail system. ​Access by turning right on Happy Valley Road and then right on Johnson Creek Road. Those with trailers should park at the bottom of the hill because there's now at gate at the top to prevent access to vehicle traffic. It's still open to dirt bikes and ATVs, horses, runners, walkers and cyclists. Steep uphill climb!​
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​​Remember when using any trails to LEAVE NO TRACE! Pack it in, pack it out, and bury excrement at least 6 inches.
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Did you know horses always have the right of way on trails? Or that walkers, hikers and bikers need to stop and move to the DOWNHILL side of a trail for horses?
Or, when triding a horse and turning it around on the side of a hill, you should turn the animal's head to face the downhill side of the trail?
If you see a potential crime in progress, please call 911.
Thankfully occurrences are rare: Please inform us of any problems with wildlife, such as coyotes getting in your henhouse or a brown bear getting into your trash barrel when it's out on the street for trash day.
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Also, please tell us if a crime has occurred on your property, so we can alert our neighbors. For privacy, we will ONLY POST THE EVENT, and not the name or address of person reporting it.
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Email us at: mcfarlandfarm@outlook.com
The beautiful Dungeness River has easy access off a Northwest trail in Dungeness Meadows!
Horses and elk grazing in McFarland Farm
Occasionally is does snow here in the winter
Oh deer! Is anybody home?
We love our wildlife! Certainly no one was suspecting it was a deer ringing this resident's video doorbell at 10:45 p.m.!
Identifying distant mountain tops looking west on Bellway Road, according to the App Hiking Maps - PeakVisor
Exterior Night lighting
Welcome to rural living! Away from the constant bright lights in towns and cities, we're treated to beautiful, and calming, dark skies filled with shiny stars! In our community exterior lights travel tends to travel long distances. If you must leave exterior lights on from dusk to dawn, we ask to please be respectful of your neighbors right to privacy, and no lighting, by avoiding bright exterior lights, especially those shine in neighbor's windows.,​
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Dusk to dawn bulbs should be the lowest lumens possible. Please reserve white lights to motion detectors, and on a short setting.
Thank-you!
Ways to Protect our Homes, and our Neighborhood
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Get a locking mailbox to help prevent mail theft.
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Get to know your neighbors. They can help keep an eye out for intruders when you're away.
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Video. If you have Internet, it's easy to set up a wireless video doorbell with night vision, Place it outside your front door, gate, garage or all three for 24/7 video recordings with sound -- and even two-way communication so you can talk to the person wherever you're at. Most modern surveillance cameras have live-streaming capabilities with custom alerts and notifications sent directly to your phone and devices.
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Trail cameras can be set up at various points on your property and do not need an Internet connection.
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DID you know?
We are the last generation to see the night sky from earth the way it was for millions of years?
​That’s right. Today, we look up at the stars and, as it turns out, the brightest ones are satellites in orbit.
Of the more than 8,000 in orbit, as of March 2024 over 5,000 are Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink Internet Satellites, which are brighter than most of them.
Do Exterior Lights Prevent or Invite crime?
Does lighting your property make it safer?
--Family Handyman Magazine, March 2023 issue
