May 2009

Ross Playfield Shelterhouse Rentals

The newly remodeled Ross Playfield Shelterhouse is located in a great neighborhood park. It is the idea location for birthday parties, summer picnics, community meetings, classes or other events.

Ross Playfield Shelterhouse wide doors roll open onto a large covered entrance. It is located adjacent to a children's play area and a grass playfield.

North Beach Park and Ravines

This wooded ravine is in northwest Seattle. In 2003, it is home to at least 10 great blue heron nests. It includes a mix of private and public ownership, primarily between Northwest 90th and Northwest 92nd streets.

This project includes potential acquisitions to connect and extend existing green space in the North Beach Natural Area.

Marvin's Garden Park

Marvin's Garden is a quiet oasis across the street from Bergen Place Park in Ballard. Its five benches on a stone-embedded concrete patio are surrounded by cedar trees, shrubbery, and flowers in planters. It is also the site of the red brick Ballard Centennial Bell Tower, created to hold the old Ballard City Hall bell at the site where the City Hall stood, and to mark the Ballard Avenue Historic District. Note the inlaid compass in the floor of the bell tower.

Golden Gardens

Located in Ballard on Puget Sound, this popular park offers extraordinary views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains.

A recent project restored two wetlands, established a short loop trail, and restored the northern beach. Golden Gardens offers strolls along a rugged coastline, hikes through forest trails, sunbathing on sandy beaches, fishing from a pier and a boat launch.

The park is also home to an off-leash area for dogs in the upper northern portion of the park.

Carkeek Park

Located in northwest Seattle, this popular park offers extraordinary views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains.

Years of hard work by neighbors and volunteers have brought salmon back to Pipers Creek in Carkeek Park.

Burke Gilman Trail

From Golden Gardens Park in Ballard to the northern shores of Lake Washington and beyond, walkers, joggers, skaters and bicyclists travel on a series of trail sections maintained by both the city's parks and transportation departments.

In Ballard, the trial begins at Golden Gardens Park, follow street traffic along Salmon Bay, linking up with a separate paved trail near the Fred Meyer store on Northwest 45th Street and continuing to Fremont and beyond.