Location: Madison Park Address: 340 37th Ave. E. Acreage: 4.5 Lakeview Park is like a crossroads where the confusing curving streets of this part of Seattle meet to offer a view and then point you along your way to the many other parks and interesting boulevards this neighborhood has to offer. Walk, bike or run… Continue reading Lakeview Park
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3001 E. Madison
Location: Madison Park Address: 3001 E. Madison St. Acreage: 0.34 3001 E. Madison is a very precise address for a park that is hard to find because it is easily missed. You won’t find more than a long strip of grass and a careful row of trees, although they are are probably beautiful when full… Continue reading 3001 E. Madison
Puget Ridge Playground
Location: West Seattle Address: 21st Ave. S.W. and Croft Pl. S.W. Acreage: 0.1 Close to South Seattle Community College is the sweetest neighborhood park built with toddlers and preschoolers in mind. The narrow strip of park squeezes in a little wooden play structure, a couple of stand-alone toys, sandbox, lawn space, picnic tables and benches.… Continue reading Puget Ridge Playground
West Seattle Stadium
Location: West Seattle Address: 4432 35th Ave. S.W. Acreage: 11.6 Another unusual park in the Seattle Parks Department line up is West Seattle Stadium, a football field and running track with a section of bleachers that dates back to the 1930s. Today it was a snowy, almost deserted scene. But, the stadium gets lots of… Continue reading West Seattle Stadium
Freeway Park
Location: Downtown Seattle Address: 700 Seneca St. Acreage: 5.2 It’s a cool urban maze that many longtime Seattleites have never set foot in. Freeway Park, which crosses Interstate 5 and spills out of the back of the Convention Center, is worth exploring. This fun park is a great place to walk your dog, sneak in… Continue reading Freeway Park
Plymouth Pillars Park
Location: Downtown Seattle Address: Boren Ave. and Pike St. Acreage: 0.6 Sitting between downtown and Capitol Hill, Plymouth Pillars Park is a small urban square on a busy corner but it’s a convenient place to eat lunch and take in views of the city. The huge pillars are limestone columns that originally marked the entrance… Continue reading Plymouth Pillars Park
Westlake Square
Location: Downtown Seattle Address: 1900 Westlake Ave. Acreage: 0.01 Now, we aren’t talking about Westlake Park, perhaps Seattle’s most heavily trafficked park that sits in front of Westlake Mall and hosts lots of holiday activities and its fair share of protesters. No, this is that funny triangle of space a block or so north that… Continue reading Westlake Square
McGraw Square
Location: Downtown Seattle Address: Stewart St. and Westlake Ave. N. Acreage: 0.01 It’s hard to believe that Seattle once had only four police officers. John H. McGraw was one of them back in the late 1800s, and McGraw Square in the middle of downtown Seattle is named after him. McGraw went on to be the… Continue reading McGraw Square