Location: West Seattle
Address: 5640 16th Ave S.W.
Acreage: Approx. 12
I’m working my way through our city’s privately managed, publicly open gardens, which landed me on a sunny day on the campus of South Seattle College. Because this isn’t a Seattle Parks department […]
Location: Northwest Seattle
Address: 5420 22nd Ave. N.W.
Acreage: 0.2
Bergen Place, at the main intersection of Seattle’s Scandinavian-influenced Ballard neighborhood, opened in 1975 to honor Seattle’s sister city in Norway. The King of Norway himself visited that year to dedicate the park […]
Location: West Seattle
Address: 5062 S.W. Admiral Way
Acreage: 0.3
Seattle has had a sister-city relationship with Nantes for more than 25 years. In 2005, we honored the French town by opening a new park in their honor in West Seattle.
If you speed by […]
Location: South Seattle/Beacon Hill
Address: 1144 Sturgus Ave. S.
Acreage: 2.0
When the city recently took down the sign that called this park Taejon and replaced it with one titled Daejeon, people thought Seattle had made a huge sister-city snafu. For 14 years people had […]
