Parks and Open Spaces Archives - Page 4 of 6 - Mountains To Sound Greenway Trust

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Upper Yakima Basin

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Parks and Open Spaces

This park has metal ramps on concrete. Features include an eight-foot halfpipe and street course.

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Upper Yakima Basin

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Parks and Open Spaces, Picnic or Day Use Areas

900 W 3rd Ave, Ellensburg

West Ellensburg Park has large trees that offer a good windbreak, a large picnic shelter, a full-sized baseball field, pickleball courts, and a play structure.

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Urban Communities

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Museums and Education Centers, Parks and Open Spaces, Trails

Situated on Magnolia Bluff, Seattle’s largest park offers breataking views of Puget Sound as well as both the Cascade and Olympic Mountains. With protected tidal beaches, open meadow lands, sea cliffs, and forests, Discovery’s open space provides quiet and tranquility away from the stress of the city. The Discovery Park Environmental Learning Center offers...

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Urban Communities

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Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites, Museums and Education Centers, Parks and Open Spaces

The park provides access to green space and the water and celebrates the cultural, maritime, and industrial heritage of the city and region.

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Urban Communities

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Museums and Education Centers, Parks and Open Spaces, Trails, Wildlife Information and Viewing Area

Tucked into the southern end of Bellevue, this park includes 320 acres of wetlands and meadows with five miles of trails for nature walks, canoe trips, and bird watching. A partnership between the Pacific Science Center and City of Bellevue Parks Department, the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center provides year-round education and hands-on learning...

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Snoqualmie Valley

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Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites, Parks and Open Spaces

This place called Preston and its surrounding areas in the Snoqualmie Valley have an ancient history. Long before the mill and town were established, this land has been home to sdukʷalbixʷ, the Snoqualmie People, who since time immemorial have hunted, fished and lived in this land and continue to live in the valley to...

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Snoqualmie Valley

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Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites, Parks and Open Spaces

Railroad Park showcases a massive old growth Douglas Fir log sheltered underneath a preserved Weyerhaeuser Mill building. It also offers a gazebo with picnic tables and historic gardens and interpretive signs about the history of Snoqualmie.

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Snoqualmie Valley

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Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites, Parks and Open Spaces, Trails, Wildlife Information and Viewing Area

Once part of a prairie tended by the Snoqualmie People, today Meadowbrook Farm Park includes farmland, wildlife habitat, trails, and interpretive facilities. The open space of Meadowbrook Farm and the nearby Tollgate Farm was originally an expansive prairie tended by the Snoqualmie people, who used fire to maintain open non-forest habitat. Periodic burns encouraged...

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Urban Communities

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Parks and Open Spaces

Tucked within a vast arboretum in a fast-growing city, the Seattle Japanese Garden attracts over 85,000 visitors annually. It is beloved both by local area residents and by garden-lovers from countries around the world.

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Urban Communities

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Parks and Open Spaces, Trails

Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park encompasses 120 acres of evergreen forest located on the Sammamish Plateau. The lush forest of Douglas firs and western hemlocks provides an excellent backdrop for a mountain bike park and miles of hiking trails.