Favorite Playgrounds

International Children’s Park

January 7, 2010
|
0 Comments
|

Location: Downtown Seattle
Address: 700 S. Lane St.
Acreage: 0.2

I somehow missed this park several times walking around the International District today. If it wasn’t for my friend, A, who pointed out that I had marked my map wrong–I was off by several blocks […]

Read more

Montlake Playfield

Location: Central Seattle/Montlake
Address: 1618 E. Calhoun St.
Acreage: 27

Located on the south side of the 520 Bridge, this 27-acre playfield has practically every amenity a park can have. It even has a football field complete with running track, which is fairly rare in Seattle […]

Read more

Ercolini Park

November 11, 2009
|
0 Comments
|

Location: West Seattle
Address: 48th Ave. S.W. and S.W. Alaska St.
Acreage: 0.53

It’s rumored that there’s a baby boom in West Seattle and from the amount of use Ercolini Park gets, I would not be surprised if this is true. This park […]

Read more

Meridian Playground

October 13, 2009
|
0 Comments
|

Location: North Seattle/Wallingford
Address: 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N.
Acreage: 6.5

If Meridian Playground feels like a busy school yard, that’s because it is just that. The backyard to the private Meridian School and the historic Good Shepherd Center, which was built as a Catholic girls […]

Read more