Seattle Parks and Recreation has a documented history of removing play areas and other features with no coherent plan for their timely replacement. Today we ask...
In March 2024 a water break was found at the E. C. Hughes playground in West Seattle. Months later with summer heating up and after...
In 2020, Seattle Parks closed the Hiawatha Community Center citing the need for renovations to the facility.
Since early October 2019, Seattle Parks has been talking about moving and renovating the Play Area at Hiawatha Park in West Seattle.
In July 2017, after having already removed the zip line swing from the Lincoln Park South Play Area, Seattle Parks closed and subseq...
Seattle Parks purchased this lot in 2014 to expand the park and provide additional open space for this high-density neighborhood.
Seattle Parks purchased this lot in 2012 to provide the community access to open space within high density urban areas across the city.
In January of 2021, Seattle Parks abrupty closed the Westcrest Play Area, providing instead a promised replacement schedule. Over t...
Where Is Our Playground is a loose group of citizens, each of whom cares about our park system, and cares that Seattle Parks has not been effective in their communications with the citizens of Seattle. A park is added to our "radar" when an individual brings it to our attention. We then ask that individual to gather some information, and join us in maintaining these pages. Some contributors can code, others just gather information about a specific park or two. If you are interested in joing us, you may contribute using at GitHub.