Location: North Seattle
Address: 50th St. and Keystone Pl. N. and 57th St. and Keystone Pl. N.
Acreage: 0.15 and 0.22
Bored with the tired, crowded Green Lake loop? Here’s another walking option just a few blocks away that doesn’t have the lake views, but it passes through one of north Seattle’s cutest neighborhoods.
Start at Meridian Playground off 50th St. in Wallingford. (Good playground, nice picnicking spots.) Cross the street (at the crosswalk, please) and look for the little triangle of grass and trees. That’s the somewhat unremarkable Corliss Place. (Corliss P. Stone was Seattle’s second mayor.)
Don’t despair or wish you’d kept with your Green Lake routine, just continue northwest along Keystone Pl. N. This very walkable neighborhood has beautiful craftsman homes and nice tree-lined streets.
When you reach 56th St., you’re in Tangletown, a quaint little cluster of restaurants and coffee shops in the middle of the residential area. Great place to stop for a coffee or donut.
Continue one block further north, and you’ll arrive at Keystone Place. Okay, also not remarkable, but it was the journey not the destination, right?
From here, you could go three more blocks northwest to Green Lake for that lake view. Or, you could turn around and explore this neighborhood’s other friendly streets.
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