Location: Queen Anne Address: 2420 7th Ave. W. Acreage: 0.2 Coe Play Park on Seattle’s Queen Anne shares a site with an elementary school. The old brick school building contrasts with the colorful new playground equipment you’ll find at this park, which is small but centrally located. #278 (Visited 5/3/11)
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Soundview Terrace
Location: Queen Anne Address: 2500 11th Ave. W. Acreage: 0.3 This is one of my favorite newly discovered parks. Soundview Terrace on the western end of Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood is perched on a steep hillside. If I had been the park’s engineer, I would have taken one look at the geography of the site… Continue reading Soundview Terrace
First Hill Park
Location: Central Seattle Address: University St. and Minor Ave. E. Acreage: 0.2 This pleasant little park sits almost as a backyard garden to the Stimson-Green Mansion on First Hill. With careful landscaping and beautiful spring flowers blooming, I thought it was a wonderful escape from the intensity of this hospital corridor. This is a great… Continue reading First Hill Park
Bellevue Place
Location: Central Seattle Address: Bellevue Pl. E. and Bellevue Ave. E. Acreage: 1.4 Bellevue Place is one of my new favorite finds. This completely hidden park takes some sleuthing to locate. I drove in circles around this part of Capitol Hill until I finally turned down a very small dead-end residential street and discovered it.… Continue reading Bellevue Place
Summit Place
Location: Central Seattle/Capitol Hill Address: Bellevue Place E. and Belmont Ave. E. Acreage: 0.02 A beautiful old oak (I think) tree is all you’ll find at Summit Place, one of dozens of Seattle’s tiny triangle parks. But, this spot on Capitol Hill is close to many other nice parks, including Summit Slope Park that has… Continue reading Summit Place
Summit Slope Park
Location: Central Seattle Address: 200 Summit Ave. E. Acreage: 0.21 Volunteers were putting finishing touches on the p-patch on the sunny day I visited Summit Slope Park. The design and landscaping of this Capitol Hill park are really nicely done with a terraced lawn and careful plantings. I was also happy to see that planners… Continue reading Summit Slope Park
Nora’s Woods
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 residents helped preserve it as green space and turn… Continue reading Nora’s Woods
Leschi-Lake Dell Natural Area
Location: Central Seattle Address: 3525 E Terrace St. Acreage: 3.23 I almost decided not to visit this mouthful of a park, thinking it would be an inaccessible ravine not really intended for visitors. So, I was pretty surprised when I detoured from my walk to give it a shot and found a small, but wonderful… Continue reading Leschi-Lake Dell Natural Area