2011 March

Fauntleroy Place

March 31, 2011
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Location: West Seattle
Address: Fauntleroy Way S.W. and 38th Ave. S.W.
Acreage: 0.07

Fauntleroy Place is a small, sloped triangle park in the West Seattle neighborhood. Most people don’t pay it much notice, but you can pull up a seat on the park’s […]

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Junction Plaza Park

March 29, 2011
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Location: West Seattle
Address: 42nd Ave. S.W. and S.W. Alaska St.
Acreage: 0.15

West Seattle has a lot of nice parks, many with views and access to the waterfront, but until last summer it didn’t have a park in the heart of the “Junction […]

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Myrtle Reservoir Park

March 18, 2011
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Location: West Seattle
Address: S.W. Myrtle St. and 35th Ave. S.W.
Acreage: 3.5

Throughout Seattle, nearly every neighborhood has a monstrous above-ground water reservoir. A cool development by the Parks Department is the trend of moving these reservoirs underground, and thereby opening up large […]

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Nora’s Woods

March 15, 2011
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Location: Central Seattle
Address: 720 29th Ave.
Acreage: 0.35

Just about the size of a large residential lot, Nora’s Woods is a secret wooded park near the Madrona neighborhood. Nora Wood and her husband Fran lived in Madrona and owned this undeveloped lot. Years later, community […]

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