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The park's northern entrance. Washington Park is a public park in Seattle, Washington, United States, most of which is taken up by the Washington Park Arboretum, a joint project of the University of Washington, the Seattle Parks and Recreation, and the nonprofit Arboretum Foundation.
It comprises 241.45 acres (97.71 hectares) of city parkland that has been officially designated as "Washington Park" by the City of Portland, [1] as well as the adjacent 64-acre (26 ha) Oregon Zoo and the 153-acre (62 ha) Hoyt Arboretum, which together make up the area described as "Washington Park" on signs and maps. [2]
Washington Park Arboretum: 1934 Montlake/Madison Valley/Washington Park: 230 acres (93 ha) Jointly administered by Seattle Parks and Recreation, the University of Washington, and the Arboretum Foundation. Waterfront Park: Central Waterfront: Westlake Park: 1988 Downtown: 0.1 acres (0.040 ha) West Montlake Park: 1909 Montlake: Woodland Park: 1902
The Arboretum Sewer Trestle (also known as Arboretum Aqueduct, [2] Arboretum Aqueduct and Sewer Trestle, [3] or Wilcox Footbridge [3]) is a historic multiarched concrete-and-brick trestle and footbridge [3] in the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, Washington.
The new Washington Park Arboretum was proposed as the site of the garden by 1937, but its construction was not undertaken at the time due to racial tensions and the onset of World War II. The Arboretum Foundation began fundraising for the project in 1957 ahead of the 1962 World's Fair and consulted with Japanese diplomats based in Seattle to ...
Washington Park was known as City Park until 1909. Charles M. Meyers was the first park keeper and he transformed the wilderness area into a park filled with drives, walkways, gardens, lawns and a zoo. The Oregon Zoo was founded in 1888, [5] making it the oldest North American zoo west of the Mississippi. [7]
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Washington is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Washington. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Name
It continues through the Arboretum. Just north of E. Roanoke Street, the boulevard turns due west and changes from Lake Washington Boulevard E. to E. Lake Washington Boulevard, following the city's street name designation system. The boulevard ends at the Montlake overpass of 520, where E. Montlake Place E. becomes Montlake Boulevard E.