Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
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Celebrating Two Seattle Parks for the #Great Outdoors Month of June
You don’t have to go far to enjoy the Great Outdoors in the City of Seattle. In fact there are dozens of wonderful parks you could visit, but I’m sharing my two favorites!
SEWARD PARK
“Within the Seattle city limits, Seward Park boasts 300 acres of beautiful forest land, home to eagles’ nests, old growth forest, a 2.4 mile bike and walking path, an amphitheater, a native plant garden, an art studio, miles of hiking trails, shoreline, beaches and more.” Seattle Parks Website
We love walking the paved path around the perimeter of the park on Lake Washington, where we enjoy a variety of sights including the mountain, when it’s out.
There are also great views of the Seattle skyline
and Lake Washington Floating Bridge, the second longest floating bridge in the world at 6,620 ft. (The Evergreen Point bridge, a few miles north, is the longest at 7,710 feet.)
Sometimes we take the trails through old growth forest in the middle of the park,
for some forest bathing!
Afterwards we find a restaurant nearby, this one in Columbia City, for the best breakfast ever!
It’s pretty hard to top Seward Park, but it just might be possible at Lincoln Park.
LINCOLN PARK
“Lincoln Park is West Seattle’s major multi-purpose park – a nose-shaped bluff on Puget Sound just north of the Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal. Switchbacks on the north and gentle trails to the south connect a mile of seawalls, rocky beaches to a bluff of grassy forests and meadows with play and picnic areas galore.”
It has many of the same features as Seward Park with lots of trails through the woods, a different body of water, and different set of mountains on display.
There are wonderful trees, including a grove of Redwoods,
trails through the woods, on the bluff overlooking Puget Sound,
and trails to the Sound below
where you’ll find a saltwater beach,
with lots of pretty rocks.
You’ll have great views of the Olympic Mountains,
and if you’re lucky you may see a whale as I did once, though I don’t have the picture to prove it.
(In case you wondered, it looked like this one, from our cruise to Alaska,
not like this one, an Orca in Hood Canal last year.)
After we’re done traipsing through the woods and along the beach we head to nearby Alki, for the best fish and chips in town.
As a bonus, I like to admire the pictures on the wall of Luna Park, which stood here more than a hundred years ago. They were taken by my great-grandfather O.T. Frasch, an early Seattle photographer.
So there you have it! You can’t go wrong with either park, both are great to visit, any time of day, any kind of weather, all times of the year.
Inspired by this week’s Sunday Stills, Great Outdoors
~ Susanne
Cats and Trails and Garden Tales 
Wow Susanne, thanks for sharing this beauty! I can see why you guys love living up there. The old photos are amazing, time really changes everything.
Thanks, John
You’re right! This is why we love living here.
You’re welcome, enjoy your day! Life is good. ❤️
A really beautiful place to live!
Thank you! Both my husband and I were born and raised here and can’t imagine living anywhere else!
The Seattle area is such a gorgeous part of the world. Great photos.
Truly! Thank you so much!
Amazing parks you’ve chosen as your favorites and I see why, Susanne! Wow, beautiful captures of the various attractions.
We might be planning a trip to Bellevue to visit my cousin next month. You’ve given me more places to want to see. From Terri Webster Schrandt.
Thanks so much, Terri! I have no idea why your comment shows as ‘anonymous.’ Another WordPress snafu! 😉
Bellevue’s just up the road from Renton, where I am! I hope you make it. You’ll have so many places to see it will be hard to choose. Enjoy! 🙂
Looks wonderful xx
Yes indeed! Thank you.
Those are both great parks and I love your great-grandfather’s old photos too.
Thanks, Graham. Lincoln Park is our favorite.
Both parks looks beautiful! I love the view of the mountain, but if I had to choose one I think I would go to Lincoln Park because of the beach – I love to be by the sea!
Thanks, Sarah. Both are wonderful but we like Lincoln Park the best, too!
Such great parks to have so close to home. A good reason to stay where you live.
Best wishes, Pete.
Yes indeed! We love visiting both of them, but Lincoln Park is our favorite.
I’m late commenting from last week. What great photos..I’ve not been to either of those.
Thank you. I’ve been to both many times, since I was born and raised here. They are both gems.