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This is a woonerf-designed park which provides pedestrians and cyclists priority on the street. This technique of shared spaces, traffic calming, and low speed limits contributes to improved pedestrian, bicycle, and automobile safety.

12th West & West Howe Park

This little neighborhood park was built in 1983. The park is located on a steep slope within designated Environmental Critical Areas, including designated Wildlife Habitat, and is part of the SW Queen Anne Greenbelt. A paved pathway provides access to a staircase through the greenbelt that connects the neighborhood to 13th Avenue West.

14th Avenue NW Boat Ramp

In the shadow of the Ballard Bridge, this small ramp leads into the Lake Washington Ship Canal. The site offers two piers, two launch lanes, and is one of Seattle's free of charge launch ramps.

3001 E Madison Park

This park is a small community green space with deciduous trees and ground cover.

32nd Ave W Boat Launch

32nd Ave W boat launch is a hand carry boat launch beach at the southern street end of 32nd Avenue West in Magnoli. It provides lovely views of the Puget sound and surrounding shoreline.

6th Avenue NW Pocket Park

Originally a surplused Seattle City Light substation, this park is now a cozy neighborhood place to relax and play. The park features include a large lawn area, landscaping, paths, neighborhood gathering area, and interactive features for children's play. Of particular note are the mural arches, lovely marble chess tiles, and entry columns with tiles designed by renowned northwest artist Alden Mason.

A. B. Ernst Park

A spiraling path of water-permeable concrete on a steep hillside in Fremont, with an amphitheater that seats 150 people.

Adams Street Boat Launch

Adams Street hand-carry boat launch is a 50-foot section of shoreline located at the northern end of the public parking lot at Adams St & Lake Washington Blvd S

Albert Davis Park

This little park is just about in the back yard of the Lake City Branch of the Seattle Public Library. Come and relax while your little ones enjoy the accessible sandbox, slide and whirl.

Alice Ball Park

This park in development in the heart of the Greenwood/Phinney Urban Village has now been named Alice Ball Park. It features a multi-use space that includes natural play elements, an open lawn, a gathering/plaza space with seating, a loop path, and planted areas

Alki Beach Park

A beachfront strip in West Seattle with fire pits, sand volleyball, picnic sites, and a paved path for rollerbladers and bikes. No parking lot.

Alki Playground

Alki Playfield adjoins the Alki Elementary School and Alki Community Center. The park features basketball, an innovative play area accessible to youngsters with disabilities, restrooms, a soccer field, a softball field, and accessible tennis courts. It is also home to the popular Whale Tail sculpture, a sand play area, artwork and landscaping with stone built into the walkways and landscape beds.

Alvin Larkins Park

Alvin Larkins Park provides a place of respite for the neighbors and merchants in the nearby Madrona business area. Seattle Parks and Recreation bought the land for the park, located at the corner of E Pike St. and 34th Ave. E in Madrona, in 1973 and developed it in 1975. It features benches set along a path that winds through the park; it is landscaped with maple, pine and fir trees, and has an expanse of lawn that's perfect for tossing a Frisbee or a ball. In spring the cherry trees provide a pop of pink. This popular neighborhood gathering place hosts picnics, barbecues, music and other events.

Amy Yee Tennis Center Park

Amy Yee Tennis Center offers 10 indoor courts, 6 outdoor courts and a wide array of programs.

Andover Place

Andover Place is a narrow path between buildings, providing public access to the beach. Tree trunks washed up on the beach make excellent spots to sit and enjoy the view.

Arroyos Natural Area

Arroyo Heights is a 7.5 acre undeveloped area in a quiet neighborhood with great views of Puget Sound.

Atlantic City Boat Ramp

Atlantic City Boat Ramp is one of Seattle Parks and Recreation's launching sites for power boats. Located in a protected cove along Seward Park Avenue south of Beer Sheva Park at the intersection of S Henderson St., Atlantic City is the southernmost Seattle boat ramp on Lake Washington.

Atlantic Street Park

Atlantic Street Park is the possible birthplace of "Princess Angeline," daughter of Chief Seattle. A log cabin once stood about 100ft from the corner of the park where her birthplace may have been. This park is now a great neighborhood playground along the I-90 interstate corridor with seating, playground equipment, outdoor fitness equipment, paths, and respite.

B.F. Day Playground

B.F. Day Playground is adjacent to B.F. Day Elementary School in Fremont, at the corner of Fremont Avenue N and N 41st Street. The park has a children's play area that is accessible to youngsters with disabilities and comes complete with a slide, climbing features, baby swings, a whirl, and a bouncy-spring toy!

Bagley Viewpoint

Bagley Viewpoint is one of our many fine viewpoints that overlook the SR 520 floating bridge, Lake Washington, Bellevue, and beyond. The UW stadium is also visible from here, and with its easy-to-access parking lot, makes for the perfect spot to spend your lunch hour.

Baker Park on Crown Hill

Baker Park has a small "natural play" area - no play equipment, only wood chips and two large rocks - with a pedestrian path that meanders through it, and a Totem Pole made from a monkey puzzle tree. There are two picnic tables.

Ballard Commons Park

Park with skate bowl, water feature, art, seating, lawns and accessible walkways. Part of the Ballard Municipal Center with Library and Neighborhood Services.

Ballard Corners Park

This cool, small neighborhood park includes a bike rack, walking path, a bench, cement couches (like a living room!), abstract jungle-gym, and interpretive park entryway.

Ballard Playground

Ballard Playfield is adjacent to Ballard Community Center and Adams Elementary School. It is a multi-purpose playfield featuring a children's play area and a soccer/baseball/softball field.

Bar-S Playground

The Bar-S "Little League" Playground in West Seattle features two grass youth baseball fields.

Bayview Playground

Bayview Playground features a grass baseball field, basketball hoops, a children's play area, and restrooms.

Bayview-Kinnear (Lower Kerry Park)

Often called Lower Kerry Park, this part of the park is below the famous viewpoint. A fun place to frolic, it offers a large lawn area, landscaping, paths, neighborhood gathering area and children's play equipment. Franklin Place, across the street from Bayview-Kinnear to the southeast, is also part of Kerry Park property.

Beacon Hill Playfield

Beacon Hill Playfield, a neighborhood park next to Beacon Hill Elementary School, features ADA-accessible basketball hoops and a children's play area, picnic tables, accessible restrooms, a soccer and softball field, accessible tennis courts and an accessible wading pool.

Beacon Place

Originally donated by Edward F. Wittler (1851-1917), a prominent business man and real estate developer, this park is undeveloped open space on Dearborn Street between the I-5 and Jose Rizal Bridge underpasses.

Beer Sheva Park

The perfect place to visit on a summer day, Beer Sheva Park is located in southeast Seattle. The view across Lake Washington to Mercer Island and the Cascade Mountains is incomparable. This spot is popular for picnics, community gatherings, yoga classes and more.

Bell Street Park

Bell Street Park is a park-like corridor through the heart of Belltown. The four block park has one lane of traffic and boasts improved landscaping, better lighting, and more open space. The continuous level pavement encourages pedestrians, cyclists, and automobiles to share the space.

Bellevue Place

Bellevue Place is small grassy slope overlooking Lake Union across I-5. A short bike path runs through along bottom of the hill, connecting Melrose Ave E to a bridge over the highway to Eastlake Avenue.

Belltown Cottage Park

Belltown Cottage Park is adjacent to the Belltown P-Patch. The three historic cottages in the park formerly hosted writers from the Richard Hugo House's Writers-in-Residence program, however currently there are only 2 writers that remain while the City explores options for maintaining the Park as a Seattle historic site. In the meantime, the open spaces of the park are being maintained completely by the community.

Belmont Place

Named for an adjacent street, this mini-park is among a group of small plots donated by Seattle city founders David Thomas Denny (1832-1903) and Louisa Boren Denny (1827-1916).

Belvedere Park

This park has a stunning view across Elliott Bay to downtown Seattle, and on clear days to the Cascade Mountains and Mt. Rainier. Divided into two parts on the east and west sides of Admiral Way, the east section features a totem pole depicting stylized beavers, fish and frogs. Belvedere Viewpoint is a popular spot for scenic photos and as a backdrop for wedding and other ceremonial photos.

Belvoir Place

Belvoir Place is a small waterfront park located at 42nd Avenue NE near Surber Drive NE in Laurelhurst. This small park overlooks Union Bay.

Benefit Playground

Benefit Playground is located at 38th Avenue S and S Benefit Street. Developed in 1982, the park features basketball hoops, benches, landscaping, pathways, a picnic shelter, skatedot and a children's play area.

Benvenuto Viewpoint

Benvenuto Viewpoint is a small space that overlooks the highway and features views of the city.

Bergen Place

Bergen Place Park in downtown Ballard is located in the heart of the business district on the triangular site between Leary Avenue, 22nd Avenue NW, and Market Street. Benches and trees line the open square. The park is home to Artist Jenn Lee Dixon's "Witness Trees" and a community information kiosk. Bergen Place was named for Bergen, Norway, one of Seattle's International Sister Cities.

Bhy Kracke Park

Featuring one of the best views in the city, this unusual park is neatly sandwiched into a steep residential area and makes ingenious use of a "difficult" space. From the sloping hillside you have a great view of downtown, Lake Union, the I-5 freeway and Capitol Hill. The park is furnished with benches, a bike rack and a drinking fountain in case you want to stay and gaze a while. It’s a great place to watch the July 4th fireworks. From the upper part of the park, you can walk down the steep, ivied hill - passing azaleas, rhododendrons, and more surprise views - to a patch of grass with a play area for kids and a pergola for parents. Plan on a visit to this one-of-a-kind oasis in the heart of the city next time you visit the Queen Anne neighborhood. The view even inspired a song!

Bitter Lake Playfield

Bitter Lake Playfield is a fun neighborhood park that features lighted tennis courts, lighted ball fields, a wading pool, restrooms and play structures.

Bitter Lake Reservoir Open Space

A simple neighborhood park, Bitter Lake Reservoir is a great place for the community to gather and play. A fence encircles the reservoir itself, so access is limited, but for simple purposes this park has what you need.

Blaine Place

This is a street triangle and was given to the city by founders David Thomas Denny and Louisa Boren Denny in 1886.

Blanche Lavizzo Park

Dr. Blanche Lavizzo Park is a narrow park that connects S Jackson St. and E Yesler Way. Its many oak, poplar, and other shade trees give the park a sense of seclusion even though there are houses and apartments on its east and west sides. The park also features a large grassy area with picnic tables and grills, a picnic shelter with fireplace, a long shelter house, a bricked open area with benches, and a small amphitheater used for free summertime concerts and plays.

Blue Dog Pond

Blue Dog Pond in Southeast Seattle near I-90 is .3 acres and is a wide, rectangular field perfect for throwing balls with grassy side slopes that your dog can run up and down. There are interesting art sculptures throughout the park that make it unique, including a giant reposing “blue dog” at the entrance. As a catchment area for excess water, it can get muddy during the rainy season. It is fully fenced and has running water.

Blue Ridge Circle

This is a small traffic circle. The plots for Blue Ridge Place and Circle were dedicated in 1930 by Blue Ridge Land Co.: A.N. Graves and D.R. Drew. The plots were purchased in 1935 by W.E. Boeing (of Boeing Aircraft Co.) and his wife. They then transferred jurisdiction in 1954 to the city.

Blue Ridge Places

These are two small parcels of land on a winding part of the street. The plots for Blue Ridge Place and Circle were dedicated in 1930 by Blue Ridge Land Co.: A.N. Graves and D.R. Drew. The plots were purchased in 1935 by W.E. Boeing (of Boeing Aircraft Co.) and his wife. They then transferred jurisdiction in 1954 to the city.

Boren Park

Louisa Boren Park is a stunning scenic viewpoint lined with benches, with a panorama of Lake Washington and the Cascades. A jogging path runs through the park, and a sculpture sits in the shelter of tall trees.

Boren Place

This little space is a street triangle named for adjacent Boren Avenue. Donated to city for use as a fire station in 1890, but transferred to Park Department jurisdiction in 1912.

Boylston Place

Donated by Mary Denny in 1902, this pocket park is a street triangle named for adjacent Boylston Avenue. Located at Broadway & Boylston Ave and maintained by SDOT, this space contains benches and plantings, providing a perfect place to wait for the streetcar or bus.

Bradner Gardens Park

Winding paths connect the many features of Bradner Gardens Park. Stroll past seven ornamental theme gardens of the Master Gardener border: butterfly & hummingbird, fragrance, sensory, shade, xeriscape, winter interest and northwest native. Watch the bees buzz the 61 p-patch plots. Learn the alphabet under the watchful eye of the baby scarecrow in the children's A to Z garden. Learn how to grow food crops in the Seattle Tilth and Urban Food demonstration gardens. Watch birds take shelter in the native plant habitat. See more than 50 varieties of ornamental street trees recommended for small spaces and under utility lines.

Brighton Playfield

Brighton Playfield, located next to Aki Kurose Middle School, includes ballfields, tennis courts, and a children's play area.

Broadway Hill Park

The community-initiated park is a "front porch" and a public yard for the neighborhood. It features a large lawn area, varied seating and tables at the top of the site, BBQ, a community garden, and landscaped planting, as well as opportunities for natural play and artwork. The community garden will be operated as part of the P-patch program.

Bryant Neighborhood Playground

Neighborhood park with children's play equipment, basketball, tennis, paved walking paths, and neighborhood views.

Burke-Gilman Trail

The Burke-Gilman Trail is a popular recreational trail for walkers, runners, cyclists, skaters and commuters. The trail is jointly maintained by Seattle Department of Transportation and Seattle Parks and Recreation.

Cal Anderson Park

Cal Anderson is located in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood and is the hub of the community. Cal Anderson Park includes a fountain, texture pool and reflecting pool, promenade paths, landscaping, a shelterhouse, a plaza, a children's play area, a wading pool, a lighted sports field, and a number of oversize chess boards. This open park invites walking, sitting, reading, contemplation, informal sports in the meadow, and organized sports on the athletic field.

California Place

Sometimes called the Ferry & Hill Street Triangle, this space was once the terminus of a street car line from Spokane Street. It is named for adjacent California Ave SW and is located at the intersection of California Ave SW and SW Hill St.

Camp Long

68-acre wooded park in West Seattle with forest hikes, overnight cabin rentals, covered picnic areas, fire ring, rock climbing, and environmental education.

Carkeek Park

Forested park on the shore of Puget Sound, featuring hiking trails, a salmon-themed children's playground, wetlands, picnic sites, sandy beach, and an orchard.

Carleton Center

This small park is a street triangle with grass and benches.

Carleton Highlands

This is one of our many natural areas and green spaces in our city.

Cascade Place

This turnaround island at the end of Palmer Court NW is in Ballard just west of NW Market St at NW 52nd St.

Cascade Playground

A neighborhood park, Cascade Playground has two play areas, a wide field, a picnic table and restrooms. The park is adjacent to an active community p-patch.

Cayton Corner Park

The park was completed in 2025! The park includes a small lawn area, an accessible pathway, retaining walls to address grading challenges, a stairway, picnic tables and handrails. It is located next to the Hearing, Speech, and Deaf Center. 

Cedar Park

This neighborhood park offers parking, a sanded play area with swings, a play structure, some basketball courts, and a walking path that follows the outline of an oval-shaped lawn.

Charles Richey Sr Viewpoint

Richey Viewpoint runs parallel to Beach Drive SW roughly from Alki Point to 63rd Ave. SW, and includes Constellation Park and an area of Marine Reserve at the end of 63rd Ave. SW. There is a hand-carry boat ramp near the foot of the western stairway.

Cheasty Boulevard

Originally the entrance to Jefferson Park and so named Jefferson Blvd., it was renamed in 1914 by the Park Board to honor one of its members, E.C. Cheasty because of his efforts toward the establishment of a boulevard system in Seattle after studying European systems, and because he was the “father” of the golf course to which the boulevard leads. Cheasty was a clothier of excellent reputation and noted for civic and club activities, Police Commissioner, and AYP Expos Commissioner.

Cheasty Natural Area

Named for Park Board member Edward C. Cheasty (1864-1914), this space is one of our city's natural areas. Cheasty Greenspace is home to the Cheasty Mountain Bike and Pedestrian Trail Pilot Project, a new loop trail for biking and walking that allows the community to enjoy nature while protecting sensitive areas.

Cheryl Chow Park

A multi-generational park in the north Rainier Valley, with play structures, exercise equipment, barbecues, and open lawn space..

Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop

The City and the Seattle Parks Foundation created a multi-use loop around Lake Union. The vision is to invite community use and enjoyment of Lake Union; providing a loop that connects people to open space – connecting us to new and existing lakefront parks, celebrating the lake’s historic working waterfront, and revealing the unique character and quality of the lake itself.

Chinook Beach Park

Chinook Beach Park features a small beach area complete with driftwood and logs that have washed up along the shore. There is also a simple, long walking path along the beach, which offers spectacular views of Lake Washington and the Cascades beyond. A small concrete landing provides a good platform for a picnic or camera tripod, as well as an interpretive sign that gives some background information on the area.

Christie Park

Formerly NE 43rd St. Mini Park, this park was renamed in May 1981. It offers grassy areas to picnic on sunny days, as well as drinking fountains and public artwork, with half-court basketball and a bench. A new 11-acre addition opened in September 2020.

City Hall Park

Bordering on the south side of the King County Public Safety Building, this former battlefield is now a small walking and sitting space filled with grass, trees, benches, small tables, and chairs. A small oak here commemorates the founding of the United Nations, and a plaque with cannonball recalls the 1865 Battle of Seattle, when Indians led by Chief Leschi attacked the pioneer village in a last effort to save their land.

Cleveland Playfield

Cleveland playfield's facilities include a football field, a 1/4 mile track, tennis courts, handball courts, shotput, and pole vault.

Coe Play Park

This small park in Queen Anne may be lacking in sprawl, but makes up for it in fun! The park offers a sanded play area complete with play structure and slide, along with an adjacent paved area that hosts basketball courts and outlines to play many games like 4-square. This park is located on the campus of Coe Elementary School, which can be found here: http://www.coeschool.org/

College Street Park

This simple park offers a small piece of grass, a play area, and a water fountain. Despite its simplicity, it has become a favorite picnic spot for the residents of the surrounding community.

College Street Ravine

Also known as Duwamish Head Greenspace, this property is a natural area.

Colman Park

Colman Park is located just south of the old Lake Washington Floating Bridge. The beach itself is adjacent to Mount Baker Bathing Beach, but is a part of Colman Park. The beach features grass, big drooping willows, and picnic tables. If you've brought along your Frisbee, football, soccer ball, or volleyball, the grass to the north makes a friendly playing ground.

Colman Playground

The old Colman School provides a backdrop to the carefully maintained Colman Playfield. The Children's PlayGarden is under construction south of the ADA accessible basketball court. With the bike trail running along the edge of the playfield, and picnic tables tucked in the shade across the trail, Colman playfield is an easy place to get to and a great place to exercise and relax.

Columbia Park

Along busy Rainier Avenue, Columbia Park offers open grass and two magnificent maple trees beside the Columbia Branch of the Seattle Public Library. This park serves as a buffer against the traffic, and provides a great place to pore over newly borrowed books. The park was annexed to the city in 1907.

Commodore Park

Following the pathways down the hillside will afford the visitor with great views of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, where foaming water flows through the spillways and ships can be observed traversing the government locks. There is the opportunity for a short, comfortable walk along the promenade, where one can take advantage of park benches and cozy shelters, before reaching the canal itself, where the fish ladder is clearly visible.

Corliss Place

Named by real estate developer William D. Wood (1858-1917) in honor of Corliss P. Stone (1838-1906), Seattle's third mayor. Stone was active in the development of residential property, platting the neighborhoods of Wallingford and Fremont. This park is a small triangle.

Cormorant Cove

Named for cormorant birds that can be seen in the area, this small water access space has a boat access for hand-carried non-motorized boats. The upper part has accessible viewing platforms, one with a mosaic and a route down to the beach.

Cottage Grove Park

Located in the Delridge area, is part of three parks known collectively as the Delridge Parks. Together with Puget Boulevard Commons and Greg Davis Park, Cottage Grove Park creates a large area of open space/park land that includes passive and active recreational elements.

Counterbalance Park

The Counterbalance Park is relatively level, 12,000 square feet, and named for the former trolley that ran there. A variety of neighborhood residential and commercial buildings are visible from the site. Queen Anne Avenue North and Roy Street are both heavily traveled arterials. Traffic signals and crosswalks allow pedestrian access to the site. Be sure to stop by for the evening light show!

Cowen Park

A generally quiet enclave north of the University of Washington, Cowen Park is tacked onto the west end of Ravenna Park, adding grassy play and picnic areas to the ravine that descends toward the southeast. Here you will find a softball field, a few picnic tables and barbecue pits, a play area with swings and climbing bars, and restrooms. In the summer, Cowen is a popular sunbathing spot.

Crescent Place

This small circle, near Green Lake, is a turn around at the end of Orin Ct N, just after it crosses N 75th St

Crown Hill Glen

Located in the Crown Hill neighborhood, has many trees and native plants, boulder seating areas, and a winding nature path. It is a quiet spot at the convergence of two street ends, connected by a staircase.

Crown Hill Park

This park, located at Holman Road NW and 13th Avenue NW, includes ballfield renovations, walkways, entries, open space, areas for play, seating, plantings and a skate dot (small park). It is located on property purchased from the Seattle Public Schools. This 1.71-acre acquisition fulfills one of Crown Hill’s longstanding community goals in its neighborhood plan.

Daejeon Park

Adjacent to Sturgus Park, Daejeon Park is named for Seattle's sister city in Korea. It features Korean style pagoda and open space.

Dahl Playfield

Originally called the Ravenna Swamp and then the 80th Street Playground. It was renamed Dahl Playfield in 1955 to honor Waldo J. "Red" Dahl (1902-1988), who was a member and occasional president of the Board of Park Commissioners for various years between 1934 and 1968.

Dakota Place Park

Dakota Place Park is located in West Seattle within walking distance of many shops, restaurants and activities along California Avenue.

David Rodgers Park

This beautiful park, built on a steeply sculptured hillside, is in the upper portion of 1st Avenue W. Here you will find a play area renovated in 2019 with nature-themed play equipment and fun educational components. Additionally, there are three tennis courts and public restrooms. Follow the paths that wind down grass-covered knobs and knolls to the Queen Anne Bowl.

Day Street Boat Ramp

Named for S. Day St, which ends at Lake Washington at this park, this is a hand carry boat launch area.

Dearborn Park

This park sits on Beacon Hill just north of the Dearborn Park Elementary School and just east of a clovered, dandelioned swath of grass towering with City Light's power lines. Area children have been at work carving out trails through the leafy wilds here, while bike trails provide evidence of some more uses for the park. Two graveled and lighted pathways extend through the park, while a play area and softball field wait nearby.

Delridge and Myrtle Park

Delridge and Myrle Park is an undeveloped greenspace at the intersection of Myrtle Street and Delridge Way Southwest.

Delridge Playfield

The playfield is adjacent to Delridge Community Center and features large open lawn spaces perfect for playing catch or flying a kite, big trees, and a playground for the kids.

Denny Park

A peaceful green island in a sea of traffic, Denny Park lies on the central business district's northern fringe, and is surrounded by major thoroughfares. Broad pathways planted with rhododendrons and azaleas lead to a central circle surrounded by thick crowned maples, pines, and other trees shield the grass and its sprawling occupants from city noises until it's time to return to the working world. The central offices of the Parks Department are at the west end of the park.

Denny Blaine Lake Park

Denny Blaine Lake Park is a pocket park offers a small lake and a "train station" type shelter. This is one of five small parks in the area donated by the Denny-Blaine Land Company, a real estate development company. The parks are Minerva Fountain (commonly known as Denny-Blaine Lake Park), Stevens Park, Viretta Park, Children's Park (now Howell Park), and Whitman Place (now Denny-Blaine Park).

Denny Blaine Park

The grassy unlifeguarded beach is surrounded by an old stone wall, which marked the shoreline before 1917, when the lake level was lowered nine feet by the construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal. There is enough room for a volleyball net above and quiet picnics and sunbathing below.(Excerpt from Enjoying Seattle's Parks by Brandt Morgan)

Discovery Park

Seattle's largest park, Discovery Park is 534 acres of mostly natural area, including forests, meadows, bluffs, and 2 miles of protected tidal beaches.

Don Armeni Boat Ramp

West Seattle's only motorized boat ramp faces downtown, located inside WDFW Marine Area 10. Features include picnic reservations, a restroom, and views.

Donnie Chin International Childrens Park

This park is a fun spot for play in the middle of the busy Chinatown International District neighborhood. In the center of the park, grass and sand form the yin-yang symbol. A bronze dragon sculpture created by artist Gerard Tsutakawa sits in the middle of this area. The sculpture is used as play equipment by children who frequent the park.

Duwamish Waterway Park

Quiet and secluded on the banks of the Duwamish waterway, this park offers benches and a large lawn area, complete with big trees for shade, a BBQ pit and picnic tables, and to top it off you can find views of ships using the waterway too.

E.C. Hughes Playground

West Seattle playground near Roxhill with ballfields, a children's play area, seasonal wading pool, restrooms, and a view of Mount Rainier to the south.

East Duwamish Greenbelt

Located along the I-5 corridor on Beacon Hill, the East Duwamish Greenbelt is a series of parcels that form a natural area.

East Portal Viewpoint

Viewpoint over the I-90 floating bridge with views of Bellevue and the Cascades. Part of the Mountains-To-Sound bike trail.

East Queen Anne Playground

Neighborhood park with playground, swingset, restrooms, and soccer field, and seasonal wading pool.

Eastmont Place

Named for an adjacent street, this pocket park is a street triangle with grass and a tetherball tied to a street sign.

Eddie Vine Boat Ramp

North Seattle's only saltwater boat ramp, next to Golden Gardens Park. Located on Marine Area 10 and near Marine Area 12, Eddie Vine is popular for fishing.

Ella Bailey Park

Park on Magnolia's southeastern hillside with panoramic views of Mt. Rainier and Downtown, featuring a playground, reservable picnic area, and walking paths.

Emma Schmitz Memorial Overlook

One of Seattle's stunning viewpoints, Emma Schmitz Overlook is a great place to stroll, jog, or sit and gaze across the water at the Olympic Mountains.

Endolyne Park

Wooded green space in southern West Seattle's Fauntleroy neighborhood, named after the "End-Of-Line" where the trolley service ended.

Ercolini Park

Neighborhood playground with a small lawn in West Seattle, just west of the Alaska Junction.

Fairmount Playground

Playground in West Seattle with a junior soccer and softball field. The shelter house is decorated with a Native American mural painted by local teens.

Fairview Park

Park in northern Eastlake with a view overlooking Lake Union and a hand carry boat launch float.

Fairview Walkway

Located along a floating walkway by Lake Union alongside Fairview Ave E across from the old steam plant, this is a small green space.

Fauntleroy Creek Ravine

This park is a small natural area.

Fauntleroy Park

A densely wooded patch of forest in southern West Seattle with walking trails.

Fauntleroy Place

This space is a large street triangle with nine trees and a bench named for adjacent Fauntleroy Way SW.

Ferdinand Street Boat Launch

Hand carry boat launch facing Seward Park, with reservable picnic sites.

Firehouse Mini Park

Mini park in the Central District with a double-decker tree house and fire pole, a boxed-in play area, drinking fountain, benches, and a whirl.

First Hill Park

Historic park with brickwork pathways, benches, flower gardens, picnic tables, and a water fountain; and views down the hill toward downtown Seattle.

Fletcher Place

A street triangle in Rainier Beach containing a memorial marker dedicated to Rainier Beach residents who lost their lives in World War II.

Flo Ware Park

Small neighborhood park in the Central District with a children's play area, benches, and lawn space for sunning.

Freeway Park

Built on the I-5 lid between First Hill and Downtown, Freeway Park offers gardens, sculptures, fountains, and public events by SPR and partners.

Fremont Canal Park

Linear green space along the north side of the Ship Canal with benches and a gravel walking path. Carries a portion of the Burke-Gilman Trail through Fremont.

Fremont Peak Park

Half-acre wooded park with unobstructed views of Puget Sound and the Olympics. Art features a sculpture marking the solstices and equinoxes.

Frink Park

A densely vegetated ravine primarily used as a natural woods drive. South Frink Place winds through the park and opens onto Lake Washington Boulevard.

Fritz Hedges Waterway Park

Open lawn space with interpreteve elements on Portage Bay near the University of Washington. Restored shoreline provides water access for hand-carried boats.

Froula Playground

This playground features baby swings, tennis courts, long lawn area perfect for catch, as well as slides and climbing features.

Garfield Playfield

Garfield Playfield features a playground, tennis courts, football field, track, and restrooms. Next to Garfield Community Center and Medgar Evers Pool.

Gas Works Park

Major park on the north shore of Lake Union with sweeping views of Seattle. Features include the Play Barn, Kite Hill, Waterfront Promenade, and picnic sites.

Gemenskap Park

An open space in Ballard with lawns, landscaping, and seating. Park design created traffic safety improvements along 14th Ave NW.

Genesee Park and Playfield

Large park with a 2.5-acre Dog Off Leash Area, reservable picnic shelter, 2 synthetic turf athletic fields, and a meadow with walking paths.

Georgetown Playfield

Georgetown Playfield's facilities include lighted ballfields, a 1/2 basketball court, a children's wading pool, tennis & handball courts, and swings.

Georgetown Pump Station

Undeveloped park property on the eastern shore of the Duwamish River, including a decommissioned pump station building from the Georgetown Steam Plant.

Gerber Park

Located at Martin Luther King Jr Way S and E Cherry, this triangle park is a great place to rest on the bench and check out artwork.

Gilman Playground

Gilman Playground’s features include ballfields, tennis courts, a play area, and wading pool.

Golden Gardens Park

Popular beachfront park with sand volleyball, picnics, seasonal fire pits, wetlands, and a bathhouse. Upland areas have hiking trails and a dog off leash area.

Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery

Cemetery for Civil War heroes of 1861-1865, with 526 graves and a monument. Adjacent to Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill.

Green Lake Park

Green Lake Park has a 2.8-mile paved walking path, sport courts, two swimming beaches, wading pool, and non-motorized boating access.

Greenwood Park

Full city block park in Greenwood, with a play area, a "game garden", sports court, P-Patch, open lawn, ADA walkways, large trees, and BBQ with picnic area.

Greenwood Triangle

Deeded to Ballard in 1895 (annexed 1907), the triangle is all that remains of the large, original Greenwood Park to the east.

Greg Davis Park

Neighborhood park featuring a mid-size lawn area, a trickling creek, and pathways connecting to Longfellow Creek Legacy Trail.

Haller Lake Street End

Haller Lake is a small lake in north Seattle. This little park provides public access to the west side of the lake, along the North 125th Street right-of-way. Perfect for picnics and bird watching; winter visitors include coots, shovelers, buffleheads, ruddy ducks, mergansers, gadwalls, and cormorants. The lake is also occasionally stocked with fish so this park is ideal for fishing!

Hamilton Viewpoint Park

With a stunning view of the city, Elliott Bay, the harbor and the Cascade Mountains, Hamilton Viewpoint showcases Seattle's urban and natural beauty.

Harrison Ridge Greenbelt

This greenbelt is located in Seattle's Madison Valley along 32nd Ave E between E Denny Way and E Thomas St.

Harvard-Miller/Roanoke Annex

This is a small triangle-shaped lawn area.

Herring's House Park

This very neat little park in the Duwamish industrial area offers some respite against the hustle and bustle of trucks and trains nearby. There are walking trails here that provide views of the Duwamish River, and some interpretive signs to help inform visitors about the local ecosystem. There is also a small lawn area available for stretching out and enjoying the sun.

Hiawatha Playfield

Located in the heart of West Seattle, Hiawatha Playfield is within easy walking distance to many Admiral District businesses including coffee shops, restaurants and stores.

Highland Drive Parkway

A landscaped slope with stairway between Highland Drive and 2nd Ave N. 2nd Ave descends to meet Highland Drive a sharp angle, creating a sliver of park land.

Highland Park Playground

With views of Mt Rainier to the southeast and the Cascade range to the east, Highland Park is a beautiful place to relax, picnic, splash about in the wading pool and play. Park features include ballfields, a wading pool, a shelter house, swings, tennis court and children's play area.

Highland Place

This is a small traffic triangle with boulders and a tree.

Hing Hay Park

Hing Hay Park - "Park for Pleasurable Gatherings" - is a hub of the International District. Terrace-like stairs lead down from Maynard to a red brick square with an ornate Grand Pavilion designed and constructed in Taipei, Taiwan. Artwork on an adjacent building features a dragon in a depiction of Asian-American history in the Northwest. The park is a popular lunch spot, and meeting place for families and friends.

Hitt's Hill Park

Hitt’s Hill is a 3.2-acre wooded hilltop on the southwest end of Columbia City that was once home to the Hitt’s Fireworks factory.

Hoa Mai Park

Plaza connected to the Little Saigon streetcar station with small event space.

Homer Harris Park

This park in the heart of the Central Area features unique artwork, a "Unity Plaza" gathering place, picnic tables and lawn areas. Barbecue on the grill or bring a picnic lunch, and enjoy the views to Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains. The park will also include a large elephant sculpture in the children's play area.

Horiuchi Park

Named for artist C. Paul Horiuchi (1906-1999), this park is a small staircase with a community garden.

Horton Hill Corridor

This park is a staircase on the S Horton St right-of-way.

Howell Park

This secluded park offers a planted trail that leads to the beach, but that starts between two private driveways, so please be respectful. It leads down through the woods to a beach lawn. It is reached by a tiny, residential access road with no parking, but offers public shore access, benches, and great big trees.

Hubbard Homestead

The park design draws on the site's rich history and hydrological conditions. The park landscaping is young, but will grow to provide natural play in groves of trees at the northeast corner of the park and at the Hubbard homestead site. The park also includes a main lawn surrounded by meadow planting, a half basketball court, a hydro-seeded "wet meadow," and a gateway plaza at 112th Street and 5th Avenue.

Hunter Boulevard

This green street boulevard is named by and for the Hunter Tract Improvement Co. The identity of "Hunter" is not known.

Hutchinson Playground

When this playground was originally developed in 1911, it was given the community name of Rainier Beach Playground. In 1965 the community petitioned the Park Board to rename this playground in honor of a former resident who had achieved great fame in the baseball world, Fred Hutchinson (1919-1964).

Hyde Place

Deeded to the City in 1911 by Maude & Oliver McGilvra, this traffic triangle was named to honor D.N. Hyde, member of the first City Council 1870.

I-5 Colonnade

I-5 Colonnade is a winding series of bike paths, trails, and an off-leash area running under the I-5 highway. This space helps link the Eastlake and Capitol Hill neighborhoods.

Interbay Athletic Complex

The Interbay Athletic Complex is a result of partnerships between the City of Seattle's Parks and Recreation and Interbay Golf Centers and Seattle Pacific University.

Interlaken Park

Interlaken Park is a densely wooded area on the north end of Capitol Hill. The paths and trails throughout the park are frequented by bikers, hikers and joggers.

Inverness Ravine Park

Iverness Ravine Park is primarily a natural area.

Japanese Garden

3.5-acre formal garden located inside the Washington Park Arboretum, designed byJapanese garden designer Juki Iida. Admission fees apply, hours vary seasonally.

Jefferson Park

Jefferson Park, the sixth largest park in the city, offers unparalleled views of the Duwamish River, the city and the Olympic Mountains. The Olmsted inspired path system flanked by trees offers a wonderful respite from city life along with many active opportunities. The covering of the reservoirs and two voter-approved Park levies transformed the park into a great community gathering place for southeast Seattle. It is the home to the Jefferson Park Golf Course, the Jefferson Community Center, Jefferson Lawn Bowling, Jefferson Skatepark and Beacon Mountain.

Jimi Hendrix Park

Jimi Hendrix Park is located next to the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle’s vibrant Central District, a thriving multi-cultural community near where Jimi Hendrix grew up.

John C. Little, Sr. Park

This park is located next to NewHolly, a mixed-income, diverse community developed around the year 2000. It has picnic shelters, a plaza, an expanded children's play area, landscaping, and a community garden.

Jose Rizal Park

Large park on North Beacon Hill with sweeping views of Downtown and Elliott Bay. The park has a dog off-leash area, restrooms, and small playground.

Judge Charles M. Stokes Overlook

Judge Charles M. Stokes Overlook, named for civil rights advocate Charles Moorehouse Stokes, is one of the areas of the I-90 lid.

Judkins Park and Playfield

Judkins is a multipurpose park corridor in the Central Area. Its six-block strip of green enlivens the Rainier Valley with picnic, play and sports areas with wide grass fields, a skatespot, spraypark, and picnic tables.

Julia Lee’s Park

Julia Lee's Park was established in 1993 by her husband, C. Calvert Knudsen, as a memorial. The park holds an Italianate garden with handsome wooden benches and has become a green and peaceful meeting place for Madison Valley residents of all ages.

Junction Plaza

Junction Plaza is located near the Alaska Street Junction in West Seattle. This space is designed to provide both a destination and pass-through park in the junction of the traditional business and the growing mixed use area to the east. The design creates an open space geared toward encouraging casual daily use for relaxing, eating or people watching, that can also be used for Junction Association festivals like the West Seattle Festival and intermittent programs.

Katie Black's Garden

This historic landscape was originally created for Katie Black, an early Seattle settler. The community rallied to preserve it and has worked hard to remove blackberries and restore the garden.

Kerry Park

An unsurpassed view of Elliott Bay and the Central City, with an occasional backdrop of Mount Rainier, draws camera buffs to this spot. At sunset they often line the wall just as the city and the sound are beginning to glow with lights. At night it becomes almost a fantasy scene, with brightly lit ferries gliding across the water and the Space Needle shining from its 500-foot pedestal.

Keystone Place

Named by area real estate developer, dentist and electrical engineer Dr. Edward Corliss Kilbourne (1856-1959; he died at age 103). The name probably reflects the shape of this "triangle" and its location at N 57th St and Keystone Pl N.

Kilbourne Park

This small space is a greenbelt located beside Fauntleroy Elementary School.

Kinnear Park

A roughly pie-shaped, two-tiered park, Kinnear is bigger, grassier, and woodsier than the parks on the upper part of the hill, and offers closer views of the city and the sound. It is dominated here by the grain elevators of Pier 86, where ships dock to be fed their cargoes through snaking tubes. You can also spot joggers moving antlike along the narrow green of Myrtle Edwards and Elliott Bay parks on the shoreline. For a different, quieter mood, descend into Lower Kinnear on a narrow pathway, which leads to a tennis court, and walk among glacial boulders and maple trees. (Excerpt from Enjoying Seattle Parks by Brandt Morgan.)

Kinnear Place

A street triangle formed where W Queen Anne Driveway meets Queen Anne Ave N at W Roy St.

Kirke Park

The park was named Kirke which means church in Norwegian. This name pays tribute to both the Norwegian heritage of the neighborhood and the history of the site. This site was home to the Church of Seventh Elect in Spiritual Israel for more than 90 years.

Kiwanis Memorial Preserve Park

Kiwanis Memorial Preserve Park is one block east of Discovery Park in the Magnolia neighborhood. This park was named the city's first Wildlife Sanctuary in 2010. It is home to Seattle‘s largest nesting colony of Great Blue Herons. The herons make their nests there from February through July or August each year.

Kobe Terrace

Terraced hillside adorned with Mt. Fuji cherry trees, between S Washington St and S Main St in the Int'l District, forming a lovely pedestrian hillclimb route.

Kubota Garden

A stunning 20-acre landscaped Japanese garden with hills, streams, bridges, and ponds. Popular for weddings, music and dance performances.

Lake City Beach Park

This tiny beach is accessible by foot or by bike, and is most easily reached by the Burke-Gilman Trail. The site had been a public small street-end beach property used by the community since the early 1900's. In 2013, it became clear that the land was not, in fact, publicly owned. Neighboring community members rallied the City to help restore public access to this waterfront property.

Lake City Memorial Triangle

This space is a small decorative triangle with ornamental shrubs and stones located southeast of the intersection of NE 125th Street with Lake City Way, in the angle formed by 31st Ave NE curving west to meet Lake City Way. King Country transferred this bite sized park to Seattle Parks and Recreation in 1995 and it currently adds a bit of beauty to the Lake City neighborhood's busy comercial core.

Lake City Mini Park

Paved plaza in the commercial core of Lake City, connecting the neighborhood to shopping and transit.

Lake City Park

Offers a wide range of activities and green space in this urban neighborhood, including a large dome play structure with netted climbing features, climbing wall, half-basketball court, accessible pathways, new benches and picnic tables, open lawn, P-Patch garden plots, and bike racks.

Lake People Park

This half-acre of forested land provides views north to downtown Seattle and east to the Cascades. It also preserves a green oasis just blocks from Rainier Ave. S. A flat area at the top of the park includes benches and boulders to sit on and a picnic table. Follow the trails to read interpretive signs that help identify native plants. The park incorporates a walkway and public stairs in the Bradford St. unopened right-of-way, connecting the residential neighborhood at the top of the hill with the Rainier commercial district at the bottom of the hill.

Lake Union Park

Lakefront oasis at the edge of downtown with beach access, lawns, MOHAI, the Center for Wooden Boats, a model boat pond, spraypark, and event space.

Lake Washington Boulevard

The original boulevard, and also the first to be paved in 1907, was in Washington Park. Interlaken Blvd. was the connection between town and the various boulevards along the lake. Scattered portions to the south were called Lake Washington Blvd. and by 1920 all the sections and boulevards had been connected, and the whole length given the name Washington Blvd.

Lakeridge Park

This park is an urban oasis of forest and running water. It offers the visitor a trip down it's hiking trails to enjoy the natural setting and to retreat from the hustle and bustle of daily life.

Lakeridge Playfield

This neighborhood playground and playfield has quite a lot to offer! Here can be found slides, regular and baby swings, a whirl, a basketball court, and a baseball field! There are even bathroom facilities here, making this a very comfortable park to hold large events in, or just spend the afternoon relaxing.

Lakeview Park

Slow down, or you'll miss this combined outlook-boulevard-picnic park at Hillside Drive, just where Lake Washington Boulevard E. begins its decent to Lake Washington. The lookout is planted with peonies backed by a stone wall, and has a good view of the lake and the Cascades. Just to the right of the lookout, a trail leads down to meet the next boulevard loop beneath a magnificent coastal redwood tree.

Lakeview Place

A small and steep slope with trees

Lakewood Playground

Very nice neighborhood playfield, complete with backstop and dugouts. There is also an adjacent playground, renovated in 2021, for those who may not be so interested in the game.

Lakewood Triangle

This park is a small walkway with a memorial and stone wall along Lake Washington.

Lambert Place

This park is a small triangle named for the original donor, Dan Lambert.

Landing Parkway

Named for its role as an approach route to a boat ramp, the Parkway consists of S. Horton Street between Sierra Place and Lake Washington Blvd.

Lawton Park

Visitors to Lawton Park can enjoy leisurely strolls down a wide pathway that carries the visitor through hills, woods and grassy lawns wioth views of Ballard the the Ship Canal. Two gravel paths provide neighborhood access to the park, school, and transportation routes. Picnic tables are available.

Laurelhurst Playfield

Laurelhurst Playfield includes ball fields, tennis courts, a children's play area and meadows.

Leschi-Lake Dell Natural Area

This property is a viewpoint, ravine, and natural area.

Leschi Park

Leschi Park is a well-manicured, rolling hillside of grass planted with exotic trees and gardens of roses. Pathways follow an undulating terrain to restrooms above. A path to the right leads to a tennis court, and one to the left goes on up to a playground with slides and a sand box. A grassy spot under willows on the east side of Lakeside S. looks out on acres of sailboats and old-time ferry.

Licton Springs Park

This is a park worth seeing! Rustic, natural qualities arise from the sights and sounds of trickling streams, long grasses waving in the breeze, small ponds, and winding paths through wooded preserves. There is a play area as well as public restrooms, and the park itself is available for weddings and ceremonies.

Lewis Park

Lewis Park is located on the east slope of Beacon Hill at 1120 15th Ave. S. and just south of I-90.

Lincoln Park

West Seattle's major multi-purpose park, with 4 miles of wooded trails, a waterfront promenade, 5 picnic shelters, sports fields, wading pool and swimming pool.

Linden Orchard Park

Linden Orchard was formerly the site of an apple orchard. This beautifully landscaped park includes a large lawn, a P-Patch community garden, new fruit trees, edible landscaping, a neighborhood gathering place with benches and a picnic table, interactive features for children's play, and an extraordinarily charming tool shed.

Little Brook Park

Nearly one acre in size, Little Brook Park is tucked neatly into its home neighborhood and provides a wonderful refuge from the busy hustle and bustle of nearby streets and commercial strip. Featuring a restroom, habitat with lawn and trees, and multiple benches and picnic tables, this is the perfect spot for a family outing. The park's central feature is the extensive play are with equipment suitable for kids of all ages including an infant maze and toddler section.

Llandover Woods Greenspace

Several beautiful gravel-surfaced trails wind their way through dense northwest forest; it's often so quiet you can hear a leaf drop. One trail provides a narrow view of the Olympic range. Visitors to the park are bound to see hikers, joggers, and people walking dogs or taking in the fresh air.

Lowman Beach Park

Lowman Beach Park offers a beautiful shoreline with rocks and driftwood. The park offers a large lawn space for gathering, swings and a wonderful location to take in sunsets. The entire shoreline is available for hand carry boat launch.

Longfellow Creek Natural Area

This greenspace provides trails, bridges, and great views of natural areas and native plants.

Loyal Heights Playfield

Loyal Heights Playfield, adjacent to Loyal Heights Community Center, includes ballfields, and a children's play area, renovated in 2021.

Lynn Street Mini Park

This is a tiny but cool little waterfront park that features a hand-painted, tile-decorated bench, little dock area for getting close to the water, and views of Queen Anne hill and Westlake Avenue. This park also has an interpretive sign with some historical information posted as well.

MacLean Park

At Taylor Avenue N and Newton Street, this park includes a viewpoint at the top overlooking Lake Union and the Cascade Mountains, and a grass meadow below.

Madison Park

A grassy park on the shores of Lake Washington with lifeguarded swimming beach, tennis courts, and playground.

Madison Park North Beach

Madison Park North Beach is located on Lake Washington, at the intersection of East Lynn Street and 43rd Avenue East. The park is one block north of Madison Park swim beach. The park is a long relatively narrow strip of grass with a view of Lake Washington. The park slopes downward from the sidewalk to the lake and there is a swing set and several benches.

Madrona Briar Patch

Madrona Briar Patch is a brushy walkway between Madrona Drive and Grand Avenue.

Madrona Park

Madrona Park is a wooded hillside sloping down to the shores of Lake Washington, where there are reservable picnic sites, a swimming beach, and dance studio.

Madrona Playground

Nestled in a dense residential neighborhood, this park and playground provide recreation space for the neighborhood and adjacent Madrona K-8 School. The shelter house is also well used by the community.

Madrona Ravine

Named for the neighborhood and its madrona tree groves, this park is a small natural area that connects to Madrona Park. Densley wooded slopes, a creek, and even a small waterfall delight those who venture on the short hikes thought this space. A visit here will briefly transport you out of the city and into the woods!

Magnolia Greenbelt

Named for the neighborhood, this space is a natural area.

Magnolia Manor Park

Magnolia Manor Park is located in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle, with entrances at 3500 28th Ave W.

Magnolia Park

Magnolia Park is on the Magnolia Bluff with a magnificent view of Puget Sound and many beautiful trees. A great place to picnic.

Magnolia Playfield

Magnolia Playfield stretches for several city blocks and includes or is adjacent to Magnolia Community Center, Blaine Elementary School and Mounger Pool. The playfields are well used for football, softball and soccer.

Magnolia Tidelands Park

This park comprises the tidelands area below Magnolia Bluff.

Magnuson Park

Historic naval airfield with restored wetlands, 4 miles of trails, boat launch, swimming beach, dog off leash area, and 9 athletic fields.

Maple Leaf Reservoir Park

The 16 acres of park land will provides a neighborhood park for Northeast Seattle. The design theme "Wind, Waves and Wings" was inspired by a community vision.

Maple School Ravine

This linear natural area at the south end of Beacon Hill includes about 15 acres of publicly owned property. It is the wooded hillside several blocks east of Cleveland High School, and just west of the historic Comet Lodge Cemetery.

Maple Wood Playfield

Two baseball fields with backstops; lawn; single stal bathrooms; and accessible play area with slides and climbing features, swings, and whirl.

Marra-Desimone Park

This very cool neighborhood park features a mini-farm and garden, a very nice trickling stream, and there is a pathway that leads to a small grassy hill at the rear of the park that is perfect for listening to the sounds of trickling water and singing birds on a sunny day.

Marshall Park

Right across the street from Parsons Garden, this tiny green oasis offers three benches, a friendly tree, and a view of the sound. The spot includes a memorial to Betty Bowen, a well-loved matron of the arts.

Martha Washington Park

Martha Washington Park is a beautiful expanse of green lawn, trees, and waterfront - a great place to bring your picnic blanket and frisbee. On a clear day, you can catch a glimpse of Mount Rainier as you lounge under a tree and look out over Lake Washington.

Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Park

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Memorial Park is a four-and-a-half acre City of Seattle park on the east side of Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, between South Walker and South Bayview Streets. The park is designed around a black granite 'mountain' — a dramatic, thirty-foot sculpture inspired by the civil rights leader's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech, made the day before he was assassinated in 1968.

Marvin's Garden

Marvin's Garden is a tiny, quiet oasis across the street from Bergen Place Park in Ballard. Its five benches on a stone-embedded concrete patio are surrounded by cedar trees, shrubbery, and flowers in planters. It is also the site of the red brick Ballard Centennial Bell Tower, created to hold the old Ballard City Hall bell at the site where the City Hall stood, and to mark the Ballard Avenue Historic District. Note the inlaid compass in the floor of the bell tower.

Matthews Beach Park

Matthews Beach is Seattle’s largest freshwater bathing beach.

Mayfair Park

Go three blocks east from the southeast corner of Rodgers Park to find this street-end knoll, cleverly converted into a tiny park. It has a central play area, with a drinking fountain and benches conveniently placed so you can watch your children climb, slide and crawl. (Excerpt from "Enjoying Seattle's Parks" by Brandt Morgan)

McGilvra Boulevard

This is a green space along the road by the same name. McGilvra Blvd. was named to honor Judge J.J. McGilvra whose home site was on the lakeshore at Madison St., known then as "Laurel St.", which is now part of Madison Park.

McGilvra Place

McGilvra Place is a small, tree-shaded triangle at the intersection of E. Madison St., E. Pike St. and 15th Ave.

McGraw Square

McGraw Square was acquired by the City in 1911 "for a public square" and designated as a Landmark in 1985. Since 2011, it has been managed and maintained by Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT). For event permitting of McGraw Square, please contact SDOT at www.seattle.gov/transportation/stuse_vend.htm or 206-684-5267.

Meadowbrook Playfield

Located near Nathan Hale High School, and Meadowbrook Community Center and pool, Meadowbrook Playfield includes playfields, lighted tennis courts, a children's play area, and meadows.

Me-Kwa-Mooks Natural Area

The Me-Kwa-Mooks Natural Area extends both north and south of Me-Kwa-Mooks Park in West Seattle.

Me-Kwa-Mooks Park

Me-Kwa-Mooks Park is across the street from the Emma Schmitz Memorial Overlook and immediately south of Me-Kwa-Mooks Natural Area. Picnic tables are set up on the lawn at the park entry (on Beach Dr. SW between SW Genesee and SW Oregon St.). Most of the park stretches up the hillside and extends north and farther south on land that is largely undeveloped. The dense trees provide habitat for many birds, including screech owls.

Meridian Playground

Meridian Playground is a quiet neighborhood park. It contains a large grassy area for any open activities, a play area and a gazebo near the shelter.

Miller Playfield

Miller Playfield is located next to the Miller Community Center and has space for soccer, baseball, softball, a nice play area, and a beautiful spraypark fountain for cooling off in the summer.

Miller Triangle

This space is a narrow triangle of land across E Thomas St from Miller Playground, and running between E Thomas and E John streets from 20th Ave E to 21st Ave E.

Magnolia Boulevard

Magnolia Boulevard is a long strip of green space that runs along the road that shares the name. Walk along this path for stunning views of the Puget Sound and territories!

Mineral Springs Park

Wooded park near Northgate with landscaping, an art walk, and a free disc golf course.

Mock Creek Ravine

Park features dense undergrowth, a trickling stream, and a birdhouse.

Montlake Boulevard

This park space is the green planted center strips along Montlake Boulevard.

Montlake Playfield

Located adjacent to Montlake Community Center, Montlake playfield includes a children’s play area, playfields, and tennis courts.

Morgan Junction

A great small park with benches and landscaped walkway, this space is a perfect place to rest.

Mount Baker Boulevard

This park was originally created and named by the Mount Baker Tract Improvement Company, which platted their real estate development in the area as the Mount Baker Park Addition. They promoted the area for its sweeping views from Mount Baker to Mount Rainier. This park is a narrow, winding greenway along the road by the same name.

Mount Baker Park

Mount Baker Park is a gentle ravine boulevard sloping down to Colman Park and the Mount Baker Bathing Beach on Lake Washington…Local residents picnic and play tennis here, or set the kids loose in a small playground in the southwest corner. Others stroll down a wide pathway—under maples, mountain ash, and chestnut trees—to Lake Washington Boulevard and the beach. Restrooms are located partway down the path. The northernmost end of the park is the starting point for Bicycle Sunday.

Mount Claire Park

Named for the adjacent Mt Claire Drive, located at Mt Claire Dr S and Shoreland Dr S., this is a natural area.

Mt Baker Ridge Viewpoint

A very cool viewpoint, this park offers sweeping views of downtown, Puget Sound, and the Olympics to the west

Myrtle Edwards Park

Myrtle Edwards Park was updated with new features in June 2026. It has winding bike and pedestrian paths along Elliott Bay, fantastic views of the Olympics Mountains, Mount Rainier, and Puget Sound, easy access from downtown and easy connection to bike paths to Magnolia.

Myrtle Reservoir

This park includes an open grass field on top of the lidded reservoir for informal play with a pathway circling the field and ADA accessible pathways. The children's play area features open toy structures to enhance visibility and provide for better security. A viewing plaza north of the lid includes an interpretive element indicating High Point's elevation as well as that of other prominent hills on the Seattle skyline.

Nantes Park

This small neighborhood park offers some benches and a short walking path, some big trees, and a lawn area perfect for picnics or lounging.

Nathan Hale Playfield

Named for the adjacent high school, this sports field has a track and soccer options.

NE 60th Street Park

No parks sign, but this little strip features a sidewalk and a couple of slender green areas with vegetation obscuring the sound wall for the interstate. If you follow the sidewalk northward around the bend, it ends at a "Community Orchard" on a strip owned by SDOT.

Nora's Woods

This is a great little neighborhood park occupying a small space with a wonderful forest, plants, many benches as well as nice walking paths up and down the gently sloping hillside.

North Beach Park

This wooded ravine is in northwest Seattle. It is located between 28th and 30th Avenues NW, and includes a mix of private and public ownership, primarily between NW 90th and NW 92nd Streets.

Northacres Park

Northacres Park is located between N 130th and the Freeway. It's surrounded with a forest of fir and contains a small forest behind picnic area. Facilities include 2 ballfields, a play area for children renovated in 2012, a dog off-leash area, and a spraypark.

Northeast Queen Anne Greenbelt

NE Queen Anne Greenbelt offers trail access and features benches, a great view to the East, the Cascades and Lake Union, and offers the perfect spot to watch the seaplanes arrive and depart.

Northgate Park

Northgate Park is located adjacent to the new Northgate Community Center and the Northgate Branch of the Seattle Public Library. The park includes a play area, Courtyard and plaza.

Northlake Park

The 7th Avenue NE Street End is not on 7th Avenue or a street end. The property is part waterway, part street right-of-way for NE Northlake Way. The site is located on the southwest edge of the University District, between I-5 and the University bridge, at the intersection of Lake Union Waterway 14 and NE Northlake Way, and across the street from the terminus of 7th Avenue NE. The upland portion of the waterway is owned by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and the remainder of the property is street right-of-way owned by Seattle Department of Transportation. The property was included as part of the 2000 Pro Parks Levy to “Develop park at 7th Ave NE street end at Lake Union.”

Northwest 60th Viewpoint

This tiny park has a big view. NW 60th Street Viewpoint comprises two benches, a boulder, and a low wood-post fence on a patch of lawn above Shilshole Bay. The park offers views of Magnolia Bluff, the Olympic Mountains, Bainbridge Island, and Puget Sound. The sound of passing trains on the tracks across the street completes the ambience.

Observatory Courts

This small park contains two tennis courts near a firehouse and the old Queen Anne observatory/water tower.

Occidental Square

Occidental Park is in the heart of the historic Pioneer Square district. London Plane trees provide shade; park furniture and nearby outdoor cafe areas provide places to relax; and bocce courts and ping pong tables allow for some easy-going recreation. Seattle Parks and Recreation and partners installed a new play area in 2019 in the northwest corner of the square. Neighboring small businesses include bookstores, art galleries, boutiques, and a variety of other unique shops and eateries.

Olympic Sculpture Park

The Olympic Sculpture Park transforms a nine-acre industrial site into open and vibrant green space for art. This new waterfront park gives Seattle residents and visitors the opportunity to experience a variety of sculpture in an outdoor setting, while enjoying the incredible views and beauty of the Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound. Admission is free.

Open Water Park

This park space is tidelands running from Elliott Bay Marina to Pier 91.

Orchard Street Ravine

This natural area features a very secluded trailhead that leads to a short but scenic walking path.

Othello Playground

Othello Park is a nicely designed park, spacious spot near Holly Park. It contains a play area for children, basketball courts, open meadow, and a nice short walking path.

Oxbow Park

Oxbow Park is located in the heart of historic Georgetown. In 1953, Seattle artist Lewis Nasmyth was hired to "rustle up" a design for a western-style gas station in Georgetown. Featuring a 44-ft. wide cowboy hat and 22-ft. high boots, the Hat n' Boots opened the next year to a stampede of customers. In fact, for a time it was the biggest selling station in the state. Legend has it even Elvis dropped by when he was in town during the World's Fair in '62. But in the early 60's, a brand new interstate, I-5, started diverting traffic away from the station. By the late 80's it pretty much looked like trail's end for the Hat n' Boots. That's when some Georgetown residents saddled up to rescue the soul of their community. “The Hat n’ Boots is as important to Georgetown as the Golden Gate Bridge is to San Francisco,” says Allan Phillips, former director of the Georgetown Community Council. “If the Hat n’ Boots were ever to be gone from Georgetown, it would be like losing our soul.”

Park Home Circle

A largely decorative traffic circle at a bend in NE Park Rd. It features a large hedge-like shrub that has a child-sized door to its interior.

Parkmont Place

Parkmont Place is a long strip park in a beautiful Magnolia neighborhood, showcasing views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains which abound, all while you can spend your time watching shipping and the ferries. Enjoy the long walking/jogging path, with benches every 50 feet or so to rest your weary legs or to just take in the view.

Parsons Gardens

Formerly the family garden of Reginald H. Parsons, the park was given to the City in 1956 by the family's children. Often used for ceremonies, this small but lovely garden is a hidden gem on Queen Anne's south slope.

Pathways Park

This park features jogging trails, a playground with slides, monkey bars, swings, a whirl, baby swings, and climbing features. It also has a cool sundial, bathroom facilities, benches to rest your weary legs, and lawn areas to stretch out on a warm day or play catch with your friends.

Peace Park

Peace Park was the dream of Dr. Floyd Schmoe, who after winning the Hiroshima Peace Prize in 1998 used the $5,000 prize money to clear a small lot near the University of Washington. From a pile of wrecked cars, garbage, and brush, he worked with community volunteers to build the beautiful Peace Park.

Pelly Place Natural Area

This natural area offers a cool trailhead secluded in a neighborhood that leads you down a forested path.

Peppi's Playground

Located next to Leschi Elementary School, Peppi's Playground is full of unique play equipment, mature trees, and a large central wading pool. Restrooms and a rolling lawn are also located in the park. A small parking lot on East Spruce street and street parking in the surrounding area are available.

Pier 58

Pier 58, part of the new Waterfront Park, features a sea life themed children's playground and nearshore ecological improvements.

Pier 62

The first piece of Waterfront Park to open, Pier 62 is one acre of flexible public space that will be programmed year round with cultural, recreational, and educational programs that celebrate all communities and cultures. It will serve as a vibrant place for activities such as yoga, soccer, concerts, festivals, and more as a preview of the broader scale with the full Waterfront Park.

Pigeon Point Park

Pigeon Point Park is part of the West Duwamish Greenbelt. The West Duwamish Greenbelt is the largest greenbelt in the city and is home to fox, red-legged frogs, hawks, and bald eagles. The greenbelt encompasses the extended forest along the eastern slopes of West Seattle that is visible from I-5.

Pinehurst Playground

Pinehurst Playground’s name is derived from the community, which originated with a 1926 plat by W.G. Hartranft name “Pinehurst Addition”.

Pinehurst Pocket Park

Pinehurst community members provided the impetus to transform a residential corner lot into this well-loved pocket park. It features two huge Douglas fir trees, native plants and an accessible path around the perimeter. There are two picnic tables on a patio created by a local artist, and a kiosk that often features neighborhood kids' artwork. A small lawn invites lounging or picnicking in the summertime. An artist's pint-sized rendition of a steam tractor memorializes a former resident who used to drive a life-sized steam tractor around the neighborhood.

Pioneer Square

Pioneer Square - the heart of old Seattle - is the place to to go experience Seattle's early history. Turn-of-the-century street lamps line the square. A Tlingit totem pole towers up beside a drinking fountain fitted with a bust of Chief Seattle. (Excerpt from Enjoying Seattle's Parks by Brandt Morgan.)

Pipers Creek Natural Area

The piper’s creek trailhead is unassuming, sitting between a house and a cyclone fence. As you follow this trail down the hillside, the sound of trickling water hits your ears and then all of a sudden, the creek comes into view. As you follow this trail down further, you will start to notice footbridges, and a large lawn area that is part of Carkeek Park. Following the road down further you come to another lawn area, and just past that are sweeping views of the sound and the Olympic Range, and a small beach to leisurely stroll up and down on your days off. The best way to access Piper's Creek is through the Carkeek Park entrance.

Plum Tree Park

Great neighborhood park complete with a play area with slide and climbing features, small lawn area, and true to its name: a plum tree. This little neighborhood park was designed with telephone pole stubs! Arranged in neat rows, the varying stump lengths form stairs, seats, and climbers that spiral through a sandy play area and provide decorative touches around the periphery. An alleyway basketball hoop draws neighborhood athletes. Several benches are also provided and small children and resident squirrels often climb the stub by the drinking fountain to gulp the flowing water.

Plymouth Pillars Park

Located at the base of Capitol Hill on the Pike-Pine corridor, Plymouth Pillars Park features a close-up panoramic view of urban center of Seattle. The newly renovated park features a dog off-leash area, benches, a pedestrian corridor and public art.

Powell Barnett Park

Powell Barnett Park was clearly built with serious play in mind. With a children's play area, complex climbing structures, a wading pool in the summer, basketball hoops,and a broad field ideal for frisbee - there's something in the park for kids of all ages. There are benches and picnic table throughout the park, and ADA accessible restrooms in a wild castle-shaped build next to the play area.

Pratt Park

Picnic tables and benches on asphalt give a narrow view of the Olympics, while an exciting play area nearly empties the nearby apartments of kids in the evenings. Older kids flock to the nearby basketball pavilion in fair weather. East of the apartment complex, a large grassy area has six picnic tables, each with a barbecue stand and shady trees, plus lots of room to run around in an open field. (Excerpt from "Enjoying Seattle's Parks" by Brandt Morgan)

Prefontaine Place

Prefontaine Place is a small park with a fountain, across the street from City Hall Park.

Prentis I. Frazier Park

Prentis I. Frazier is a neighborhood park ideal for resting in the shade and playing. The park includes a small play area with adjacent benches and a drinking fountain.

Pritchard Island Beach

Waterfront park with swim beach, lawn, and bathhouse in the Rainier Beach area. Tree species include cottonwoods.

Puget Boulevard Commons

The park consists of two major areas. The first, along with Greg Davis Park and Cottage Grove Park, spans three city blocks and contains the the Delridge P-Patch. The second are lies northeast, and is undeveloped.

Puget Creek Greenspace

Named for the creek. The natural area consists of parcels extending from 19th Ave SW and SW Brandon St to SW Holly St., along the line of the 19th Ave SW street right-of-way.

Puget Park

Puget Park is part of the West Duwamish Greenbelt. The West Duwamish Greenbelt is the largest greenbelt in the city and is home to fox, red-legged frogs, hawks, and bald eagles. The greenbelt encompasses the extended forest along the eastern slopes of West Seattle that is visible from I-5.

Puget Ridge Playground

This tiny neighborhood playground has a lot to offer! Featuring play equipment with climbing features, monkey bars, and a small sandbox, there is a lot here for the kids. There are also a couple picnic tables for people to enjoy those warm summer evenings! This park also has a nice, if small, green lawn area, with views to the West.

Queen Anne Boulevard

This long strip of green roadway flows through a variety of locations in Queen Anne.

Queen Anne Bowl Playfield

Located on Queen Anne Hill, the "Bowl" of this park comes from its origins as a gravel quarry. Currently this park is a playfield and track.

Rainbow Point

What a beautiful view! Enjoy a panorama of downtown and the Olympics, while also resting upon benches or meandering along the simple pathway. This park is lighted, and features trees and shrubs, along with plant beds and small lawns.

Rainier Beach Playfield

Located adjacent to Rainier Beach Community Center, Rainier Beach Playfield includes tennis courts, and ballfields.

Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands

Formerly the Park Department's Atlantic City Nursery, this urban farm is now operated jointly by Seattle Tilth and the Friends of Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands.

Rainier Place

In the "old Ballard" of the early 1900s, when street numbering and names differed from the current system, Rainier Place was originally created by the widening of Ballard Place, 56th and 57th in 1909 and extended through Greenwood Park (Ballard Park) from 2nd to W. 55th. Today it is a small grassy triangle where NW 53rd and NW 54th intersect.

Rainier Playfield

Rainier Playfield was originally named Columbia Playfield, which was then the name of the pioneer town in the vicinity. In 1928, upon petition on behalf of the Rainier Business Men’s Club, the name was changed to Rainier in appreciation of the field's mountain view.

Ravenna Boulevard

Named for the adjacent park, this is a green roadway.

Ravenna Park

Ravenna Park is a ½ mile wooded ravine which connects two picnic areas just north of the University District, and is a popular spot for hiking, jogging and picnics. Park features include a play area for children, a wading pool, ballfield, trails, and tennis courts.

Ravenna Ravine

Melt-off from the Vashon Glacial Ice Sheet formed the huge Lake Russell which cut drainage ravines through the new glacial till, forming the Ravenna Park ravine.

Ravenna Woods

Named for the adjacent park, this space is a densely wooded natural area.

Ravenna-Eckstein Park

This great park contains tennis courts, a basketball court, baby swings and regular swings, playground with a slide and climbing features, a pitching backstop, and it is Community Center adjacent.

Regrade Park

A small park tucked in the heart of the densely populated Belltown neighborhood, Regrade Park is one of Seattle's 14 off-leash areas. It provides an in-city off-leash experience for the many condo-dwelling dogs in Belltown.

Riverview Playfield

Named for the neighborhood, which has a view of the Duwamish River, this playfield has multiple tennis courts, ballfields, soccer fields, and a football field.

Roanoke Park

Roanoke Park is a grassy, pleasant space located on north Capitol Hill where 10th Avenue E ends at E Roanoke.

Roanoke Street Mini Park

This small park facing west has a peekaboo view of houseboats and Lake Union. Shade, two benches, and a stone walkway provide a perfect resting spot.

Rogers Playground

This nice neighborhood playground with 2 tennis courts and 2 baseball fields also features restrooms, a water fountain, sandbox for the kids, slides, baby swings, and climbing features. There are also many big trees and a large lawn area where you can relax and enjoy the weather!

Ross Playground

This pleasant park contains two baseball fields with backstops, a scoreboard, and a playground with climbing features, a sandbox, monkey bars, baby swings, slide. It also has bathroom facilities, as well as a large lawn area.

Rotary Viewpoint

The park is located in the Delridge neighborhood in West Seattle. The viewpoint provides panoramic views of the Cascade Mountains and wide-angle views of the downtown skyline.

Roxhill Park

Park in southern West Seattle with a skate park, playground, picnic reservations, and sport fields. Restored wetlands form the headwaters of Longfellow Creek.

Sacajawea Playground

This is a small grassy field flanked by woods just south of the Sacajawea Elementary School.

Salmon Bay Park

In this beautiful little neighborhood park, visitors can enjoy tall trees and picnic tables scattered over green grassy hills, while on bright afternoons crows and squirrels can be observed harassing one another, swallows dive to eat flies, and children play at the park’s play area. It features a big playground with baby swings, sandbox, slides etc., bathroom facilities, and benches.

Sam Smith Park

Sam Smith Park comprises the largest and most central part of the I-90 lid, with a play area for children, picnic tables, and tennis courts. The park includes Blue Dog Pond, a detention pond that serves as one of Seattle’s off-leash areas for dogs, and Urban Peace Circle, a sculpture by Seattle sculptor Gerard Tsutakawa, dedicated to children killed by gun violence in Seattle’s inner city.

Sandel Playground

Sandel Park's features include a children's play area, walkways, large open meadow, basketball hoops, and a wading pool.

Schmitz Boulevard

The boulevard is named for the adjacent park, which itself was named for its donor, Ferdinand Schmitz who was a Park Board member from 1908-1914, pioneer realtor and capitalist. (Edited from the files of Don Sherwood, 1916-1981, Park Historian.)

Schmitz Preserve Park

Schmitz Preserve Park has old growth forest, walking paths, Hiking and nature study.

Seacrest Park

Seacrest Boathouse and Pier is located on Harbor Avenue next to Don Armeni Boat Ramp and is accessible by boat on Elliott Bay.

Seola Park

Enjoy wandering in this great ravine, where deciduous woods predominate. There is a madrona grove at the park’s south end. A nice view of the water, but there is no beach access from Seola Park.

Seven Hills Park

Neighborhood park with benches, lawn, and picnic tables. Seven boulders on the lawn represent Seattle’s 7 hills.

Seward Park

Seward Park boasts 300 acres of old growth forest, a 2.4 mile paved shoreline path, upland hiking, playground, picnic sites, art studio, and swimming beach.

Sierra Place

This space is a small, grassy triangle.

Smith Cove Park

This Port of Seattle Park is just west of Pier 91 on Elliott Bay. A 0.7-mile jogging and biking path parallels the road as it winds past warehouses before finally emerging at the Smith Cove bulkhead right beside Pier 91 and Elliott Bay. The concrete promenade with picnic tables provides a chance to spread out and enjoy the views all the way to Alki, as well as the bustling port activity. Here you will find lots of ducks and seagulls to entertain you as well.

Solstice Park

Six tennis courts, a short hiking trail to the “sundial” for marking the equinox and solstice, and a community garden and p-patch make this park special. It contains a water fountain and benches to sit on, which provide fantastic views of the Sound and the Olympics.

Soundview Playfield

This park features two baseball fields with backstops, a soccer field, a playground for the kids featuring slides, swings (and baby swings!) and climbing features, walking trails, and plenty of open space for tossing a Frisbee.

Soundview Terrace

Neighborhood park that features a play area with slides and climbing equipment, as well as picnic tables with a view of the Cascades and Magnolia, as well as a long green strip. This is a great place to steal a quick view of Puget Sound too.

South Park Meadow

South Park Meadow is a just that, a grassy meadow in the South Park neighborhood.

South Park Playground

This playground is located directly outside the South Park Community Center and has a ballfield, play equipment, and a wading pool to cool off in the summer.

South Park Plaza

Small, 0.83-acre park in the South Park neighborhood, featuring gathering spaces and play area.

Spring Street Mini Park

Spring Street Mini Park is a little neighborhood park ideal for bringing young children to play. The park features a small children's play area, a water fountain, benches, a picnic table, and lawn space great for playing and sunbathing.

Spruce Street Mini Park

A modern play area, a circle of benches, and a shallow bowl of grass and trees attract people of all ages.

St. Marks Greenbelt

The St. Mark's Greenbelt buffers Capitol Hill from I-5 and provides precious wildlife habitat, dense vegetation and trails. It is adjacent to St. Mark's Cathedral on 10th Ave E, and a steep trail through the southern part of the greenbelt is accessible from trailheads in the south and southwest portions of the St. Mark's parking lot.

Stan Sayres Memorial Park

Stan S. Sayres Memorial Park (also known as "Sayres Pits" because of its association with Seattle's annual Seafair Hydroplane Races) is located a mile south of the Interstate 90 Bridge on Lake Washington. Stan Sayres is also the home of the Mount Baker Rowing and Sailing Center. A north facing point, Stan Sayres offers four wide launching lanes which are usually protected from rough water. Additionally, if the weather is clear, Mount Rainier, Glacier Peak and Mount Ba

Stevens Place

One of five small parks in the area donated by the Denny-Blaine Land Company, this is a small triangle with a bench and a few trees.

Stevens Triangle

Located at the intersection of Dorffel Dr E and E John St, this is a small triangle park with a stair case and green space. Named in honor of the Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens, this space is one of five small parks in the area donated by the Denny-Blaine Land Company.

Sturgus Park

Sturgus Park is a wooded hillside that sprouts up below the girders of the Jose Rizal Bridge at the foot of Beacon Hill. Its trees and vines climb toward the hillside just west of the Goodwill buildings, adding leaves to the visual feast that northbound drivers have to Puget Sound and the City.

Sturtevant Ravine

Named for the bordering avenue, this is a natural area.

Summit Place

This space is a street triangle at the intersection of Belmont Ave E, Bellevue Pl E and Summit Ave E, and named for the latter street. It is among a group of small plots donated by city founders David Thomas Denny (1832-1903) and Louisa Boren Denny (1827-1916).

Summit Slope Park

This urban park boasts a skate bench feature, as well as a landscaped garden and a BBQ grill and picnic tables. Centrally located, it stands ready to provide a space for those summer evening barbecues with the neighborhood.

SUN Park

The acronym in the name of this pocket park stands for Saving Urban Nature. The park has a low-maintenance design with a path, bench and native plantings, and is a green and peaceful meeting place for visitors of all ages.

Sunnyside Ave N Boat Ramp

The Sunnyside boat ramp is located at the end of Sunnyside Avenue N just east of Gas Works Park on the Ship Canal. Sunnyside offers a single pier and a wide ramp and is one of Seattle's free of charge all purpose ramps. Sunnyside is also equipped with a portable, handicapped accessible, restroom placed at the ramp during the peak boating season. Sunnyside does not receive a large volume of use and parking is very limited. Boaters using Sunnyside will have to be content with street parking. Sunnyside was renovated in 1996.

Sunset Hill Park

The Bay below Sunset Hill Park is alive with sailboats, and you can smell the salt breezes as you gaze far out to the Puget isles and the craggy Olympic skyline. (Excerpt from Enjoying Seattle's Parks by Brandt Morgan.)

Sunset Place

Originally deeded to the city in 1905 by Clarence M. Dustin, it was renamed as "Sunset Place" in December of 1980. (Edited from the files of Don Sherwood, 1916-1981, Park Historian.)

SW Queen Anne Greenbelt

The SW Queen Anne Greenbelt offers visitors a chance to escape the busy city and immerse themselves in a natural forest setting. You can access the trails by parking nearby and walking through the 12th W & W Howe Park. Just hike down the stairs next to the hillside slide and the trail will lead you into the forested area from there!

T.T. Minor Playground

TT Minor Park includes a children’s play area, a sports field, a jogging/walking path and relocation of the existing school parking lot. Improvements also included landscaping, new paving, benches, a drinking fountain and a bike rack, all of which are accessible to people with disabilities.

Tashkent Park

Tashkent Park is a charming shady neighborhood park with picnic tables, a wooden arbor, benches, and a sculpture. Tashkent Park was named for Tashkent, Uzbekistan, one of Seattle's International Sister Cities.

Taylor Creek Headwaters

This natural space is a steeply sloped site named for Taylor Creek, which flows through neighboring Lakeridge Park into Lake Washington.

Terry Pettus Park

Terry Pettus Park includes shoreline access and a public float. Tie-up time is limited to 2 hours.

Thayer Place

This park space is a small plot of land with a staircase and shrubs.

Thomas C. Wales Park

Seattle Parks and Recreation worked with the Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs to select an artist to collaborate with the landscape architects in designing a site that can be used for recreation and open space as well as to promote the value of arts and culture. The property was used as a gravel pit and for material storage prior to being developed into a neighborhood park.

Thomas Street Mini Park

Thomas Street Mini-Park is a small neighborhood Park in one of the most densely populated areas of Seattle. Near small shops and cafes, it's ideal for sunbathing and relaxing.

Thorndyke Park

This is a small neighborhood park that comes complete with a walking path and is adjacent to bus lines. Great view of downtown, Mt. Rainier and the Puget Sound through the trees.

Thornton Creek Natural Area

Thornton Creek Natural Area is a series of properties in the Northgate neighborhood that preserve green space around Thornton Creek. This natural area includes Beaver Pond, Licorice Fern, Kingfisher, and other smaller natural areas and includes paths, restored native plants, and wildlife viewing.

Thyme Patch Park

Thyme Patch Park is a tiny jewel nestled in a west Ballard neighborhood that combines the best elements of a neighborhood park and community garden. The park includes a P-Patch, Master Gardener demonstration gardens, benches, lawn area and walkways. The entrance features a hand-crafted steel handrail by artist Chuck Nafziger.

Tilikum Place

The main attraction of this small square in the northwest corner of the central business district is a life-size statue of Chief Seattle, for whom the city was named. Wrapped in a stained copper shawl, the chief stands on a pedestal with one arm raised in symbolic greeting to the first white settlers who landed at Alki Point in 1851. Bear heads at the base of the pedestal spout streams of water into a pool.

Troll’s Knoll Park

The site is located in the right-of-way at the north end of the Aurora Avenue Bridge between 808 N 36th Street and 916 N 36th Street, just west of the Fremont Troll. The park is a model design of a sustainable park space and provides a critical pedestrian link to other areas of Fremont, particularly bus stops and the developing neighborhood business district in northern Fremont. The open lawn, seating areas, views and plantings create a nice place to enjoy a picnic after visiting the Fremont Troll.

Trolley Hill Park

Trolley Hill Park is located at 5th N and Blaine Street on Queen Anne. This park features a community P-Patch, a picnic area, and a natural play area. The name was chosen because 5th Avenue N was one of the main trolley lines leading up Queen Anne Hill from 1890 to 1940.

Trudy's Triangle

Originally named Ridgeway Place for a bordering street, it was renamed Trudy's Triangle in 2002 in response to a petition from the Mount Baker Community Club. Trudy Sanders was a community activist and a Seattle Parks Commissioner who lived across the street from the Ridgeway street triangle. She played a prominent role in the acquisition of Discovery Park. She died in 1994.

Twelfth Avenue South Viewpoint

12th Ave. S Viewpoint provides a stunning view from north Beacon Hill of downtown Seattle, the industrial Duwamish River shipping activity, Elliott Bay, and the Olympic Mountains to the west. The park features a lawn area as well as two benches.

Urban Triangle Park

This park will serve downtown businesses and residences, providing a seamless transition between the park and the adjacent development. The design includes an open lawn, new central play structure, seating edge, lighting, ADA access, places for vendors, landscaping, and other park elements.

Union Bay Boglands

Named for the adjacent Union Bay, the boglands are a collection of natural area properties around the Union Bay Natural Area.

Union Station Square

Union Station Square is a 1600 square foot triangle at the intersection of Jackson, 3rd Ave S and 2nd Ave. It provides a resting spot for a busy bus stop and contains several polished stones designed for seating. The stones are engraved with artwork inspired by the railroad history of the area. Several ginkgo trees provide welcome shade on warm days.

University Circle

Located at the heart of the Hawthorne Hills neighborhood, this park is a large roundabout traffic circle with benches, trees, and territorial views. University Circle was included in the original real estate development plan for the area. Several streets surrounding the park are named for famous universities such as Vassar Ave NE and Princeton Ave NE.

University Heights Plaza

A multi-use community open space includes a performance area/plaza, rain gardens to improve stormwater quality, pedestrian pathways, lawn areas, basketball hoop, landscaped areas and other amenities. The design is sensitive to the view of the historic building's south façade.

University Lake Shore Place

This parkspace is a wooded slope rising above the Burke-Gilman Trail where it runs parallel to Riveria Pl NE just south of NE 125 St.

University Playground

This park features two tennis courts, one baseball diamond and backstop, playground with slide, baby swings, a Rich Beyer sculpture of a sasquatch, adult exercise equipment and bathroom facilities.

Ursula Judkins Viewpoint

Found at the end of the road, this small park offers tremendous views of downtown and the Cascades, as well as shipping ports, yachts, private boats, etc. There are a few benches and a small knoll for sitting under trees and taking in the sights, while its surroundings keep it relatively quiet.

Van Asselt Playground

Van Asselt Playground is located on Beacon Hill. It is an active park with amenities in easy walking distance.

Victor Steinbrueck Park

Victor Steinbrueck Park is located at the north end of Pike Place Market. On a summer afternoon, the park bustles with a lively combination of neighborhood residents, visitors, tourists, and people who work in the area -all enjoying picnics, sunbathing, playing and relaxing on the park's lawn, benches, and tables.

Victory Creek Park

This small neighborhood park is right behind a QFC store, with a creek and neighborhood on the other side, and features a short walking path with benches.

Victory Heights Playground

Victory Heights Park has large grassy field surrounded by trees, a tennis court, play structure, slides and swings.

View Ridge Playfield

View Ridge playfield has something for everyone. Sports fans will enjoy the softball field, basketball courts, and grassy open spaces. Little ones will love playing on the extensive playground with swings, slides, and equipment for many ages. Join us in the summer time to cool off in the wading pool. Picnickers will appreciate the covered shelter with picnic tables and tables placed around the park under mature shade trees. Bathrooms, drinking fountains, and accessible paved paths are also on site.

Viretta Park

A grassy lookout below steep slopes and brush, this park is suitable for a quick stop and a look at the lake while on your boulevard tour. Stairs lead up to 39th & John from the Boulevard.

Virgil Flaim Park

Virgil Flaim Park is a spacious park located near the Lake City Community Center, Lake City Library, and commercial core. The park features paved paths, a large playground with equipment for all ages, basketball courts, drinking fountain and a new skateboard park. Picnickers will enjoy the shade trees, grills, and tables on site. There's also a large lawn area for running and open space play.

Volunteer Park

An Olmsted park atop Capitol Hill, Volunteer Park is home to the Volunteer Park Conservatory, Seattle Asian Art Museum, gardens, paths, and a wading pool.

Volunteer Parkway

Also known as "Millionaires' Row", this parkway is a green entry way street to Volunteer Park.

Wallingford Playfield

Wallingford Playfield has long been a popular neighborhood gathering place for tennis, picnics, wading pool splashing in summer, ball games, and playing. The play area, renovated in 2019, offers a variety of opportunities to slide, swing and spin. The play equipment provides areas for children from 2 to 5 years old and 5 to 12 with equipment that meets current safety standards and ensure accessibility to all children ages in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Extensive landscaping surrounds the wading pool, and a crushed rock path around the playfield connects to the paths on the park's east end. The park's short, steep west border is a native plant garden. Picnic tables among the trees, benches, and sitting boulders provide plenty of places to sit and read, rest, or watch children play.

Wallingford Steps

The Wallingford Steps, a wide concrete staircase, connect N 34th St. with N Northlake Way, the Burke-Gilman Trail, and Gas Works Park. The steps with railings, benches, plantings on either side of the Steps, and a circular mosaic on the lowest of three landings create a pleasant atmosphere in which to enjoy the southward view of downtown and Lake Union. Pond, the brightly colored glass and etched-metal mosaic, by artists Benson Shaw and Clark Weigman, features a fanciful marine motif and other shapes based on artwork by local school children.

Walt Hundley Playfield

Seattle Parks and Recreation acquired the Walt Hundley Playfield at High Point, from the Seattle Housing Authority in 1977. The 11-acre playfield was developed in 1980, and consists of two baseball fields and a lighted turf soccer field used primarily by recreational sports groups.

Ward Springs Park

Ward Springs Park is a neighborhood park located at the corner of 4th Ave and Ward St. at the base of Queen Anne. Formerly belonging to Seattle Public Utilities, this property provided all the water to Queen Anne. An historic pump house on the site displays part of the mechanism that performed this feat. A curved path leads by a play area, open lawn and over a dry streambed. The park has a spectacular view of the Space Needle and downtown.

Washington Park Playfield

Washington Park Playfield is located in the Washington Park Arboretum. It has fields for soccer, baseball, and softball and includes lighting and bleachers.

Washington Street Boat Landing

No boats land here any more. At this site just south of the Washington State Ferry Terminal, you'll find only a historic pergola built for the long-defunct Seattle Harbor Department in 1920, and views of Elliott Bay and the Olympic Mountains. Note particularly the truncated ships' prows decorating the pergola high in front. Out in the water, you can still see the upright posts delineating the pier that was originally attached to the site. Immediately adjacent, the Port of Seattle's small Alaska Square has been closed to public access because its concrete has collapsed in places.

Waterfront Park

Comprising the area from Pier 57 to Pier 59, this park is lined with lamps, benches, and high, curving railings. From either of two pink metal viewing platforms, reached both by stairs and a wheelchair-accessible ramp, you can enjoy excellent views of the city skyline, the waterfront, the ships in drydock, container cranes, the West Seattle Bridge, Magnolia Bluff, Blake Island, Bainbridge, and, on a clear day, the Olympic Mountains. Occasionally you may even see a seal. Four coin-operated telescopes on the sidewalk offer view assistance.

Watton Site

This park is new and still in the planning stages. Currently the park is restored to turf lawn. This site is a life estate transfer from George and DeLayne B. Watton.

Weather Watch Park

This tiny (135 feet long!) park has artwork that is so fun to look at that it competes with the glorious view the spot affords of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. The park includes a curved concrete bench inlaid with a bronze relief map of Olympic peaks, a triangular column that carries historic photographic images and has a weather vane on top, a sundial, and a half-moon area paved with over 500 bricks engraved with short expressions and the names of area residents, including early settlers. Stone stairs and a woodchip path lead down to the rocky beach.

Webster Park

This park also boasts 1 full-court and 1 half-court basketball courts, a small, attractive lawn area, and lots of trees to shade you on those sunny summer days. This park also features some parking on-site, so unload the car and enjoy a picnic!

Wedgwood Park

Small pocket park for future development in Northeast Seattle

Wedgwood Square

This small space is a triangle.

West Duwamish Greenbelt

The West Duwamish Greenbelt is the largest greenbelt in the city and is home to fox, red-legged frogs, hawks, and bald eagles. The greenbelt encompasses the extended forest along the eastern slopes of West Seattle that is visible from I-5.

West Ewing Mini Park

This park is a little grass patch just across the street from Seattle Pacific University on the Lake Washington Ship Canal. An upper concrete overlook with lights has benches for sitting and watching boats and munching lunches. This is a favorite snacking spot for students and workers from nearby manufacturing plants. (Excerpt from Enjoying Seattle Parks by Brandt Morgan.)

West Montlake Park

This stretch of flat grass bordering the Seattle Yacht Club and Montlake area homes offers a viewpoint of Portage Bay and the Montlake Cut. It connects neighborhoods.

West Queen Anne Playfield

This six-acre park is across the street from McClure Middle School to the north and Queen Anne Community Center and Pool to the east. Its fenced-in grass fields, with baseball backstops and bleachers, are used for baseball, softball, and soccer. Outside the fence, a partially wheelchair-accessible children's play area includes swings, slides, a merry-go-round, and a climbing structure. There are benches nearby and a bicycle rack.

West Seattle Stadium

This large, historic stadium has a football field, a track, and two sets of stands (one historical). Available for rental, it is adjacent to the West Seattle Golf Course.

Westcrest Park

Westcrest Park is a very large park with a viewing platform offering a great panoramic view of the city skyline. The park features a flat, open meadow with a short walking path and a dog off-leash area.

Westlake Greenbelt

The Westlake Greenbelt is one of the smaller greenbelts in the city, and includes the wooded slopes above Westlake Ave N.

Westlake Park

Triangular, tile-paved open space in the heart of downtown, with a fountain, bistro tables, and food vendors nearby. Popular space for public events.

Westlake Square

This park is part of the downtown "town square" and consists of a paved street triangle with trees bounded by Westlake Ave, Steward St, and 6th Ave. It once had a canopy, benches and an underground restroom similar to the one at Pioneer Square. It is named for the adjacent street.

William Grose Park

Located at 30th Ave and E Howell St., this spot offers a rolling green lawn and giant evergreen along with a short path in this quiet neighborhood park. This space also has benches and a picnic table, offering peaceful places for rest and an ideal picnic spot.

Williams Place

This tiny urban park with 2 bus stops also offers 4 benches to rest and wait for the bus on and some trees to help provide you some shade on those hot summer days.

Wolf Creek Ravine Natural Area

Wolf Creek flows through a canyon crossed by Queen Anne Dr on a landmark bridge between Nob Hill Pl N and 2nd Ave N. It's course is approximately the line of 3rd Ave N between Queen Anne Dr and Lynn St. The source of the creek's name is unknown.

Woodland Park

Woodland Park is an exciting, multipurpose park and recreation space just southwest of Green Lake and north of the Fremont district. It is separated into two parts by Aurora Avenue.

Woodland Park Rose Garden

Originally established by Park Board in 1922, the Woodland Park Rose Garden is adjacent to the Woodland Park Zoo. The Rose Garden is one of only two dozen certified American Rose Test Gardens in the United States. At its picturesque best from May through August, the garden displays new rose hybrids before they become available to amateur rose enthusiasts. The garden is maintained by the Woodland Park Zoo society. Learn more about the rose garden on the Woodland Park Zoo's Rose Garden web site.