Location: South Park Address: 736 S. Cloverdale St. Acreage: approx. 0.3 Next to Cesar Chavez Park, a great community gathering place in the South Park neighborhood, you’ll find this skate park tucked up against the freeway. Built in 2008, River City Skate Park is the only skate park in South Park and one of only… Continue reading River City Skate Park
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South Park Plaza
Location: South Park Address: Dallas Ave. S. and 14th Ave. S. Acreage: approx. 0.17 South Park is doing a great job building and upgrading its community’s public spaces. This sweet little plaza welcomes people to the neighborhood as they drive over the South Park Bridge. The brick plaza features deciduous trees, tall grasses and an… Continue reading South Park Plaza
8th Avenue South Park
Location: South Seattle/South Park Address: 8th Ave. S. and S. Portland St. Acreage: approx. 0.3 Large red gears sitting near the shore stood out like beacons against the gray sky and gray gravel on the drizzly day I visited 8th Avenue South Park. The gears, which reminded me of anchors, apparently came from an old… Continue reading 8th Avenue South Park
South Park Meadows
Location: South Park/South Seattle Address: 9100 8th Ave. S. Acreage: 1.0 South Park Meadow is in such an unlikely location, I have to wonder how many people have ever been to this park. The park sits between two houses, but across the street is a manufacturing plant and beyond that lie several industrial complexes. Nonetheless,… Continue reading South Park Meadows
Marra-Desimone Park
Location: South Seattle Address: 9026 4th Ave. S. Acreage: 8.7 For more than 40 years the Marra family, Italian immigrants who arrived in Seattle just after the turn of the last century, farmed the area that is now known as Marra-Desimone Park. The land was sold to them by Joe Desimone, who was an early… Continue reading Marra-Desimone Park
Cesar Chavez Park
Location: South Seattle Address: 7th Ave. S. and S. Cloverdale St. Acreage: 0.18 The most interesting thing about this small park near the freeway in South Park is the cool steel structure that turns an otherwise nondescript public space into a real gathering area. It almost looks like the park is designed for small concerts,… Continue reading Cesar Chavez Park
South Park Playground
Location: South Seattle Address: 738 S. Sullivan St. Acreage: 5.6 The South Park Playground is part of the South Park Community Center complex, which offers the South Park neighborhood virtually every kind of fun activity you can imagine. The community center has daily, year-round activities for all ages. You can play basketball, roll around on… Continue reading South Park Playground
Duwamish Waterway Park
Location: South Seattle Address: 7900 10th Ave. S. Acreage: 1.5 It’s dumping rain and the ankles of my jeans are getting wet from walking through soaked grass. But, I find myself lingering at Duwamish Waterway Park because this park is such a great surprise. At the end of a street that’s a mix of industrial… Continue reading Duwamish Waterway Park