Location: Central Seattle Address: 2000 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. Acreage: 8.5 Seattle has many, many parks with outdoor tennis facilities, but the Amy Yee Tennis Center is the epicenter of all things tennis. The center has 10 indoor courts and six additional outdoor courts accessed up a short staircase on the east side… Continue reading Amy Yee Tennis Center
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Waterfall Garden Park
Location: Downtown Seattle/Pioneer Square Address: 219 2nd Ave. S. Acreage: 0.15 Not actually a city of Seattle public park, Waterfall Garden Park is the site of the first UPS headquarters. The Annie E. Casey Foundation took over the site in 1977 and had it developed into a park, which is now a well known park… Continue reading Waterfall Garden Park
Bayview-Kinnear Park
Location: Queen Anne Address: 3rd Ave W. and W. Prospect St. Acreage: 4.62 I actually already visited Bayview-Kinnear Park when I made my tour of Kerry Park a while back. But, the city has recently renamed the lower section and listed it as a separate park, so in my quest for accuracy I dropped by… Continue reading Bayview-Kinnear Park
Magnolia Manor Park
Location: Magnolia Address: 3430 27th Ave W. Acreage: 2.0 The Magnolia neighborhood finally has its own off-leash dog park with the addition of Magnolia Manor Park, which opened in 2012. Built on Seattle Public Utility land, this park is a little awkward to explore since the center section is still fenced off due to the… Continue reading Magnolia Manor Park
Interbay P-Patch
Location: Interbay/Magnolia Address: 15th Ave. W. and W. Wheeler St. Acreage: 1.91 Seattle has dozens of community P-patch gardens where the list is often years long to snag your own garden plot, but only a few are official public parkland owned by the city. Interbay P-Patch is one of those and despite its location off… Continue reading Interbay P-Patch
Bell Street Park
Location: Downtown Seattle/Belltown Address: Bell St. and 1st Ave. to Bell St. and 5th Ave. Acreage: approx. 1.5 (when complete) It’s exciting to see when pedestrian-friendly park space can be carved out of dense urban areas without having to acquire land. The first phase of the Bell Street Park in downtown Seattle just opened, and… Continue reading Bell Street Park
Washington Park Playfield
Location: East-Central Seattle/Madison Park Address: 1017 Lake Washington Blvd. East Acreage: approx. 10 acres Sitting at the southern entrance to the Washington Park Arboretum, the Washington Park Playfield is a park within a park. There’s so much to see at the Arboretum that the huge playfield can be easily overlooked, but this park has been… Continue reading Washington Park Playfield
Lakeview Place
Location: Central Seattle/Eastlake Address: 1042 Lakeview Blvd. E. Acreage: 0.004 Do we count a park that’s size is listed as 0.004 acres? And, it’s really just a not-terribly-accessible hillside? I doubt even the neighbors know this one’s a park, as Lakeview Place sits squeezed between two houses on a Capitol Hill slope overlooking I-5. The… Continue reading Lakeview Place