Woodland Park (Seattle)
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Woodland Park, looking southeast across Green Lake |
Woodland Park is a 90.9 acre (368,000 m²)
park in
Seattle's
Phinney Ridge and
Green Lake neighborhoods that originated as the estate of
Guy C. Phinney,
lumber mill owner and
real estate developer. Phinney died in
1893, and in
1902, the
Olmsted Brothers firm of
Boston was hired to design the city's parks, including Woodland Park.
The park is split in half by Aurora Avenue N. (
Washington State Route 99). Its western half is given over to the
Woodland Park Zoo. Its eastern half, which is connected to the zoo by arched bridges over the highway, consists of trails, a picnic area, ballfields, and a
miniature golf range, and is contiguous with
Green Lake Park.
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Parks Department page on Woodland Park
