Science-fiction author Frank Herbert’s legacy to be honored with a new ‘Dune’ park in Tacoma

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There likely won’t be any sandworms, but that’s not needed to spice up this news: Tacoma, Wash., native Frank Herbert, best known for the hugely popular Dune science-fiction novels, is getting a namesake park in his home town.

The Metro Parks Tacoma Board of Commissioners has approved naming an 11-acre waterfront site “Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance Park,” and a winding pedestrian loop being built on the same site the “Frank Herbert Trail.” The public space is currently under construction on land that once housed the former ASARCO copper smelting operation, next to the Tacoma Yacht Club boat basin.

The new Dune park is expected to open later this year. It is actually physically separate from the rest of Point Defiance Park. A pedestrian-bicycle trail will connect it to the main park to the west.

 

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