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Matthews Beach Park is a 22-acre (0.9 km 2) park in the Matthews Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It is a popular swimming beach in the summer, although it is also open during winter months. [1] The park also hosts an annual "Polar Bear Plunge" sponsored by Seattle Parks and Recreation on New Year's Day. [2] [3]
Alki Beach Park is a 135.9-acre (55.0 ha) park located in the West Seattle neighborhood of Seattle, Washington that consists of the Elliott Bay beach between Alki Point and Duwamish Head. [2] It has a 0.5 miles (0.80 km) of beachfront, and was the first public salt-water bathing beach on the west coast of the United States.
Seattle (/ s i ˈ æ t əl / ⓘ see-AT-uhl) is a city on the West Coast of the United States.It is the seat of King County, Washington.With a 2023 population of 755,078 [2] it is the most populous city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America, and the 18th-most populous city in the United States.
Pioneer Square Habitat Beach is a 200-foot-long urban beach south of the Colman Dock in Seattle's Pioneer Square district, in the U.S. state of Washington. It began construction in 2018 and opened in 2023 as part of a multi-year redevelopment of the waterfront and the Alaskan Way Seawall. The beach was designed to use natural topography and ...
The lower portion of the park is divided between wetland marsh and beach (on Puget Sound), and situated north of the Shilshole Bay Marina. It also has dunes and large grassy areas. Golden Gardens has exceptional views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains across the sound. The water is very cold for swimming even in summers.
The diversity and current popularity of the park was demonstrated on December 6, 2023 when an overflow crowd of around 400 people attended a Seattle Parks and Recreation community response meeting to voice their opposition [30] to a proposed children's play area and to speak on public record about how significant Denny Blaine Park—as a queer ...
Seahurst Park's beach along Puget Sound. Seahurst Park, in Burien, Washington (a suburb of Seattle), is a 178-acre (0.72 km 2) park with forests and a beach on Puget Sound. Originally a King County park, it was given to the newly incorporated city of Burien in 1996. The beach is about 2,000 feet (610 m) long, and the upper part of the beach has ...
Lincoln Park is a 135 acres (0.55 km 2) park in West Seattle alongside Puget Sound. The park's attractions include forest trails, a paved walkway along the beach, athletic fields, picnic shelters, and a heated saltwater swimming pool which is open during the summer. The park is adjacent to the Fauntleroy neighborhood.