Location: Central Seattle Address: 160 21st Ave. Acreage: 0.7 I love Seattle’s neighborhood “mini parks.” They seem to get plenty of use and usually boast of not much more than a few benches, some tall trees and a play area. Unfortunately, it’s a miserable drizzly day when I visited Spruce Street Mini Park, but I… Continue reading Spruce Street Mini Park
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Queen Anne Bowl Playfield
Location: Queen Anne Address: 2806 3rd Ave. W. Acreage: 4.8 Queen Anne Bowl Playfield has one of the city’s few public running tracks. It’s also host to many soccer games, and today there are dozens of kids running around both on and off the field while parents watch clustered on one side. If you’re getting… Continue reading Queen Anne Bowl Playfield
David Rodgers Park
Location: Queen Anne Address: 2800 1st Ave. W. Acreage: 9.2 Queen Anne has a lot of parks, many of them with great views. But, I like David Rodgers Park even though it’s one of the few without much of a view at all. Come to this park instead for the walking trails that begin at… Continue reading David Rodgers Park
Mayfair Park
Location: Queen Anne Address: 2600 2nd Ave. N. Acreage: 1.0 A little out of the way on the north-facing side of Queen Anne, you’ll find the sweet Mayfair Park. This park sits at the end of a dead-end street and backs into a ravine, making it almost entirely shaded with tall trees. In addition to… Continue reading Mayfair Park
Ward Springs Park
Location: Queen Anne Address: Ward St. and 4th Ave. N. Acreage: 0.34 Like this, this, this and this, Ward Springs Park is one of many parks on Queen Anne with amazing views besides the best known Kerry Park. This park, which features west facing views of the city skyline, has benches and a small grass… Continue reading Ward Springs Park
Kinnear Place
Location: Queen Anne Address: Queen Anne Ave. N. and W. Queen Anne Dr. Acreage: 0.09 Definitely not to be mistaken for the wonderful Kinnear Park, Kinnear Place is bit of an anticlimactic 300th park for me. This small strip of grass and trees hides next to curvy W. Queen Anne Dr., which makes a good… Continue reading Kinnear Place
12th West and West Howe Park
Location: Queen Anne Address: 12th Ave. W. and W. Howe St. Acreage: 1.1 This park’s best feature is that it provides a handy link for foot traffic between 15th Ave. W. in Interbay and upper Queen Anne. A couple of short sets of stairs bring you up through the dense vegetation to a quiet little… Continue reading 12th West and West Howe Park
Thomas C. Wales Park
Location: Queen Anne Address: 2401 6th Ave. N. Acreage: 1.3 What do you do with a former gravel pit? Turn it into a park and use the gravel to make art! Thomas C. Wales Park sits in the elbow that connects Dexter Ave. to 6th Ave. N., which gives you access to Queen Anne by… Continue reading Thomas C. Wales Park