Favorite Playgrounds

Highland Park Playground

November 7, 2011
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Location: West Seattle
Address: 1100 S.W. Cloverdale St.
Acreage: 6.4

A nice playground, huge lawn, playfields and tennis courts give Highland Park neighbors a place to play. This West Seattle park, which has been around since the 1920s, even has a little view of the mountains […]

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Othello Playground

August 14, 2011
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Location: South Seattle
Address: 4351 Othello St.
Acreage: 7.6

A group of preschoolers is sprinting at top speeds across the huge lawn at Othello Playground in South Seattle. Leaving their teachers far behind, they dash up the stairs built unevenly into the hillside. The first kid to […]

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Greenwood Park

Location: North Seattle
Address: 602 N. 87th St.
Acreage: 2.22

This immaculately maintained park is hidden from its nearby streets in the Greenwood neighborhood. Follow one of the perfect curving paths to the new play structures and sand box, where kids will want to stop and play […]

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Salmon Bay Park

Location: North Seattle
Address: 2001 N.W. Canoe Pl.
Acreage: 2.8

I visit a lot of mostly empty neighborhood parks during the week. So, I was pleased to find one in the north Ballard area that seemed to be full of life even on a Friday morning […]

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