Location: West Seattle Address: 5640 16th Ave S.W. Acreage: Approx. 12 I’m working my way through our city’s privately managed, publicly open gardens, which landed me on a sunny day on the campus of South Seattle College. Because this isn’t a Seattle Parks department public space, it remains a secret park despite its impressive garden.… Continue reading Seattle Chinese Garden & Arboretum
Category: sister city
Bergen Place
Location: Northwest Seattle Address: 5420 22nd Ave. N.W. Acreage: 0.2 Bergen Place, at the main intersection of Seattle’s Scandinavian-influenced Ballard neighborhood, opened in 1975 to honor Seattle’s sister city in Norway. The King of Norway himself visited that year to dedicate the park. Some 30 years later the park was ready for a makeover, and… Continue reading Bergen Place
Nantes Park
Location: West Seattle Address: 5062 S.W. Admiral Way Acreage: 0.3 Seattle has had a sister-city relationship with Nantes for more than 25 years. In 2005, we honored the French town by opening a new park in their honor in West Seattle. If you speed by on busy Admiral Way, you’ll miss this sweet park that… Continue reading Nantes Park
Daejeon Park
Location: South Seattle/Beacon Hill Address: 1144 Sturgus Ave. S. Acreage: 2.0 When the city recently took down the sign that called this park Taejon and replaced it with one titled Daejeon, people thought Seattle had made a huge sister-city snafu. For 14 years people had enjoyed Taejon park on Beacon Hill named after its sister… Continue reading Daejeon Park
Beer Sheva Park
Location: South Seattle/Rainier Beach Address: 8650 55th Ave. S. Acreage: 0.1 The Parks Department Web site says Beer Sheva Park is only a tenth of an acre, but I can’t see how that’s true. This park is a large waterfront spot right off the main drag in the Rainier Beach neighborhood. In addition to the… Continue reading Beer Sheva Park
Tashkent Park
Location: Central Seattle/Capitol Hill Address: 511 Boylston Ave. E. Acreage: 0.5 Tashkent Park, named after one of Seattle’s sister cities in Uzbekistan, is a park that’s especially quaint at this time of the year. A half-dozen large maple trees have shed nearly all their leaves, creating a beautiful carpet of yellows and oranges. There’s also… Continue reading Tashkent Park