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...

Where Is Our Playground‽

Projects We Are Monitoring

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Hiawatha Play Area

Hiawatha Playfield’s play area relocation has been in the works since 2019. West Seattle Blog reported the job finally went out to p...

Bids closed Mar 2026 · construction TBD
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Morgan Junction Park Addition

WSB has tracked soil cleanup, SDOT right-of-way friction, budget fights over a “skate dot,” and a May 6, 2026 follow-up on the expan...

Interim use open · build ~2027
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West Seattle Junction Park Development

Landbanked land in the 4700 block of 40th SW was bought in 2012; West Seattle Blog covered early design votes, a 2019 ‘65% design’ c...

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E. C. Hughes Wading Pool

Seattle Parks finished replacing failed water lines at E. C. Hughes Playground after a long 2024 outage; the wading pool is back on ...

Project complete
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Hiawatha Community Center

Hiawatha Community Center (2700 California SW) reopened in February 2026 after West Seattle Blog–documented delays of nearly six yea...

Reopened Feb 2026
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Lincoln Park (South)

Lincoln Park South’s play area was closed for about seven years before reopening in August 2024—a span the West Seattle Blog tracked...

Play area back in use
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Westcrest Park Play Area

Westcrest’s reservoir-lid play area was fenced closed in May 2021 for safety (West Seattle Blog). After years of rescheduled bids—bu...

Project Complete

About

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.