 GREG GILBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES
The Kubota Garden is carefully landscaped. |
July 30, 2004 Walking trails in Seattle
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This pleasant park of alders, maples and young conifers offers easy-terrain trails and naturalist-led nature programs. MORE WALKING TRAILS
This forested ravine that opens onto a cobbled, Puget Sound beach was first logged in the late 1800s. Frink Park trail (Leschi) The upper entrance to this forested park hangs at the edge of a ridge of glacial rock debris overlooking Lake Washington. Green Lake (Green Lake) With a lake gouged out by retreating glaciers about 15,000 years ago, this busy urban park has a long history of being loved. Kubota Garden (Rainier Beach) The original home of the famed Kubota landscaping family, this 20-acre Seattle city park is a little-known treasure. Lincoln Park trails (West Seattle) This 135-acre, grand old park dominates Williams Point overlooking Puget Sound. Ravenna Park Trail (Ravenna) Today, conifers share the ravine with deciduous trees, along with two small groves of coast redwoods, in the middle of the park south of the creek. Schmitz Park trails (West Seattle) This preserve still harbors some of the last bits of Seattle's modified old-growth forest. Seward Park (Columbia City / Rainier Valley) Seward Park is a regional treasure with a splendid example of urban old-growth forest. Volunteer Park Conservatory (Capitol Hill) Built in 1912 and restored in the early 1980s, this Victorian-style greenhouse consists of five "houses," which represent different environments around the world. Washington Park Arboretum (University / Montlake) Developed in the 1930s with the help of WPA funds and labor, this mile long "living plant museum" covers more than 200 verdant acres with more than 5,000 kinds of plants. |
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