Seattle Parks - Thanks to Guy Phinney, The City, & The Olmsteds...

There are so many parks in Seattle neighborhoods and suburbs, really, that it is hard to choose just one to celebrate any gorgeous day.

 The history of the Seattle Park System is fascinating! Reading about it, one will quickly realize just how lucky we are to have so many prime pieces of land available to the public. In the late ninteenth century, the city was very quick to scoop up prime pieces of private land even despite controversy. Woodland Park for instance was purchased right around 1900 from the estate of Guy Phinney who has used it as some kind of fanciful outdoor adventure park - a Disneyland of sorts for that time because it was so far out of town!

Many people think of Woodland Park as a zoo, but did you know that it is over 90 acres???? This is a great asset to our city and we are so lucky to have it! Even if you don't want to go to the zoo, check out the rest of the park sometime!

While you are at it, check out the other parks in the Seattle park system - The Olmsted Brothers had a large hand in making sure that there would be a park system going forward.  Look at what they did to Green Lake when people had built all the way down to the shore before there was a chance to put a park in!

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