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  • Bus & Walking Tour: Olmsted Legacy with Seattle Parks

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    Travel along Olmsted-designed boulevards to three historic parks (Seward Park, Washington Park Arboretum, and Volunteer Park). Guides from Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks will introduce and lead you on short walks through some of Seattle’s most beautiful outdoor spaces. Walks will be on a variety of surfaces, including lawn and gravel paths. Walking distance will be less than 1 mile total.

    $140

  • Walking Tour of Interlaken Park & Boulevard

    Interlaken Park 2451 Delmar Dr E, Seattle, WA, United States

    Sign up here This walk will take you down a wooded trail through Interlaken Park to Interlaken Blvd. The route then travels east along the boulevard to 24th Ave., then backtracks to follow the boulevard in the other direction. John Charles Olmsted laid out Interlaken Boulevard along an early bicycle path heading westward from Lake […]

    Free

  • Walking Tour of Washington Park Arboretum with UWBG

    Washington Park Arboretum 2300 Arboretum Drive East, Seattle

    The city first acquired Washington Park from the Puget Mill Company in 1900. By 1904, the city hired the Olmsted Brothers firm to prepare drawings for a roadway alignment through the park. Plans for how a “pleasure drive” would connect Lake Washington Boulevard to the university campus through Washington Park evolved quickly over the next […]

    $30

  • Walking Tour of Discovery Park

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    Discovery Park WA, United States

    Officer's Barracks, 1907 (Asahel Curtis). Courtesy UW Special Collections Learn about John Charles Olmsted's original impressions and vision for Fort Lawton, renamed Discovery Park in the 1970's. Olmsted envisioned this park as the north anchor of Seattle's inter-connected system of parks and boulevards, extending throughout the city from Seward Park in the southeast. The tour […]

    Free

  • Walking Tour of Cal Anderson Park

    Cal Anderson Park 1635 11th Ave, Seattle

    Join us on a free walking tour of Cal Anderson Park. The city’s "newest oldest" Olmsted-designed park is the hub of the Capitol Hill neighborhood. It sensitively combines historic preservation and new design in the Olmsted tradition. The spacious design accommodates a wide variety of uses and users. Even while it creates areas for new […]

    Free