Prototype. A working redesign concept for Peninsula Metropolitan Park District (PenMet Parks), built by Stoa for RFP No. EO-2026-001. Not the District's official website.PenMet Parks website concept for RFP EO-2026-001.
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Gig Harbor peninsula parks, programs, and records

What do you need today?

Find programs, parks, rentals, records, and the right official PenMet system

What's new

A site ready for expanded programs, rentals, and recreation demand

PenMet's public website has more to carry now: the Recreation Center, growing programs, mini golf, facility rentals, adaptive recreation, Board transparency, and capital projects all need to be easy to find.

  • Registration pathways stay familiar. The prototype keeps ActiveNet as the transaction system while making the handoff clearer.
  • Programs and rentals become searchable. Residents can filter by audience, season, and category before they leave the site.
  • Board and financial records are easier to find. Public information is grouped around the questions residents actually ask.
People playing inside the PenMet Parks Recreation Center.
Official PenMet Parks photo, reused to keep the concept grounded in the District's own visual identity.

Behind the public site

A staff workflow for parks, programs, events, and records

The RFP asks for a CMS that is easy for non-technical staff, supports roles and permissions, schedules publishing, archives content, and keeps accessibility maintained. The prototype now includes a staff-side workflow preview built from real PenMet source content.

What the workflow demonstrates

  • Structured records for programs, rentals, parks, Board materials, news, events, and public documents.
  • Role-aware review paths, publish and archive steps, and source links.
  • Content checks for accessible link text, alt text, document summaries, translation readiness, and third-party handoffs.

Reliable by design

Built for daily public service, not just the front page

01

Clear task paths

Programs, parks, rentals, Board records, contact, and capital projects get obvious resident routes from the first screen.

02

Accessible patterns

Skip links, labels, visible focus, landmark discipline, tested contrast, and predictable keyboard paths are part of every template.

03

Staff-ready content

Programs, parks, events, alerts, documents, and records are structured so staff can maintain them without rebuilding pages by hand.

04

Clean handoffs

ActiveNet, NextRequest, maintenance requests, Jotform, maps, social channels, and public PDFs remain systems of record.

Prototype note

What this prototype covers

This concept is built from PenMet's actual public offerings, exact third-party handoffs, current park facts, official photography, a real sitewide search index, and Spanish-language vital-flow pages.