Favorite Small Public Spaces

Spring Street Mini Park

July 11, 2011
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Location: Central Seattle
Address: E. Spring St. and 15th Ave.
Acreage: 0.3

Spring Street Mini Park is the setting for a movie in the making by some local junior high kids on the cloudy day I visited. I watched one of them playfully boss around the main […]

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Prentis I. Frazier Park

November 28, 2010
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Location: Madison Park
Address: 401 24th Ave. E.
Acreage: 0.4

If you’re in the Madison Park neighborhood, don’t miss the chance to take your kids to Prentis I. Frazier Park, which has one of my favorite playgrounds.

The park designers were very clever about working […]

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Firehouse Mini Park

April 23, 2010
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Location: Central Seattle
Address: 712 18th Ave.
Acreage: 0.3

One of Seattle’s cutest little parks is hidden on a residential street across from Swedish Hospital’s Cherry Street Campus.

Filled with tall trees that shade nearly the entire park, you feel like you’re far away […]

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Oxbow Park

April 8, 2010
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Location: South Seattle
Address: 6430 Corson Ave. S.
Acreage: 0.81

A gigantic cowboy hat and boots greet visitors to Oxbow Park in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood. “Hat ‘N’ Boots” was rescued from a Texaco gas station where they were icons in the 1950s.

They’re now designated […]

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