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The 300 acres (120 ha) of Seward Park have roughly 120 acres (49 ha) of surviving old growth forest, providing a glimpse of what some of the lake shore looked like before the city of Seattle was founded. With trees older than 250 years and many less than 200, the Seward Park forest is relatively young (the forests of Seattle before the city was ...
With trees older than 250 years, the Seward Park forest is relatively young (the forests of Seattle before the city were fully mature, up to 1,000–2,000 years old). [1] [2] The park's trees largely consists of softwoods, mostly Douglas firs, but with other species present as well, including Western hemlock, Pacific madrona and Alaskan cedar.
Seward Park: Seattle: King: Puget Sound: 300 acres, operated by the City, features the Seward Park Environmental & Audubon Center Skagit River Bald Eagle Interpretive Center: Rockport: Skagit: Puget Sound: located in 103-acre Howard Miller Steelhead Park, focus is the Skagit River ecosystem with an emphasis on the winter migration of bald ...
Schmitz Park: 1908 West Seattle: 53.1 acres (21.5 ha) Seattle Center: 1962 Lower Queen Anne: 74 acres (30 ha) Administered by the Seattle Center Department, a city department. Seattle Japanese Garden: 1960 Madison Park: 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) Seward Park: 1911 Seward Park: 300 acres (120 ha) South Passage Point Park: 1977 Eastlake: 0.9 acres (0.36 ha)
The 1.8-mile greenway trail and linear park will connect downtown with neighborhoods to the north. The city is now designing the Durham Rail Trail. Here’s how you can weigh in.
Denny-Blaine Park (One of the "improved parks" mentioned in the Seattle Park Board's annual report for 1909) The City of Seattle Parks and Recreation department lists a number of other parks, playgrounds, and playfields "influenced or recommended" by the Olmsteds, including the city's largest park: 534-acre (2.16 km 2) Discovery Park. [1]
This 1909 map of Seattle shows many neighborhood names that remain in common use today—for example, Ballard, Fremont, Queen Anne Hill, Capitol Hill, West Seattle, and Beacon Hill—but also many that have fallen out of use—for example, "Ross" and "Edgewater" on either side of Fremont, "Brooklyn" for today's University District, and "Renton Hill" near the confluence of Capitol Hill, First ...
Seward Park may refer to: Seward Park (Chicago) Seward Park (Manhattan), a park on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, named after William H. Seward; Seward Park (Seattle), a park in Seattle, Washington; Seward Park, Seattle, the surrounding neighborhood