No. 186 A different angle on Seattle Skyline from below Interstate I-5

North Passage Point Park
600 NE Northlake Way
Seattle, WA 98105

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North Passage Point Park is a small 0.8 green space on the north shore of Lake Union directly under the I-5 Ship Canal Bridge that spans the Portage Bay Canal. For it being tucked away and its small size it makes up for with views of Queen Anne, Space Needle and the Eastlake Ave Draw Bride to the east. Dedicated in 1977 after the construction of the I-5 Ship Canal Bridge project its the sister park to the South Passage Point Park on the opposite shoreline.

Looking up at Ship Canal Bridge I-5

Shallow Draft Propeller from Tugboat "Artic Bear"

Eastlake Ave Draw Bridge

Sailboat passing through the Eastlake Ave Draw Bridge

Downtown Seattle view

Zoom View of Seattle Space Needle

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No. 137 Kubota Garden

 9817 55th Avenue S.
 Seattle, WA 
Website: http://www.kubota.org/index.htm

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The Kubota Garden is a 20 acre asian style garden on a hill side in a south Seattle neighborhood that was started over 60 years ago by Mr. Fujitaro Kubota. After immigrating from Japan, Mr. Kubota a self-taught landscape and gardener built his landscaping business and soon began to plan and construct his vision of the Japanese-style garden on his private property in 1927.
60 years later In 1987, the City of Seattle bought the garden from the Kubota family, and it is now maintained by the Department of Parks and Recreation as well as volunteers from the Kubota Garden Foundation.
The Kubota Gardens has many trails that are lined with many varieties of trees and plants that bloom each year, bubbling brooks, waterfalls and stone and wood foot bridges.

 The garden is open to the public every day during daylight hours all year round.

Kubota Garden Main Gate

Moon Bridge and small pond

Orange Maple Sunrise

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No. 133 Artist Point

Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest

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 Artist Point is located at the very end of Mount Baker Highway, State Route 542 and boasts 360-degree views of Mount Shuksan and Mount Baker, as well as access to a variety of trails. In late summer the open meadows at Artist Point fill with blooming wild flowers backed by the towering rock summit of Mount Shuksan and glacier-crowned Mount Baker.
The road to Artist Point from Heather Meadows is 2.7 miles long (milepost 54.55 to 57.26) and more than 5,000 feet above sea level, is typically buried under snow and closed from October through June. Artist Point typically opens in July and remains open until the first substantial snowfall of the year, which usually comes in late September or early October.

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No. 114 Fremont Peak Park

Fremont Peak Park
4357 Palatine Ave N
Seattle, WA

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Fremont Peak Park is a half-acre park on a bluff in the Fremont neighborhood just south of N. 45th Street at 4357 Palatine Ave. N.  The neighborhoods street are quite narrow and the road up to the park is fairly steep. Park on the left side of the street and make sure your tires are set to the curp and your parking break works: )
The park opened to the public on November 10, 2007 and features native plants, artifacts, integrated art projects and short walking trails that showcase the how landscape and art can work together in a public space.
The park has two main design concepts: one mythological, the other cosmological. The mythological elements stem from the idea of mapping a ritualistic path out to view. It is based on the Greek myth in which Ariande gave Theseus the end of a spool of thread that he unwound as he made his way through the labyrinth to slay the Minotaur. In this park the labyrinth is represented by concrete walls.  Ariadne’s silver thread begins as a spool at the entry, then moves into the sidewalk paving, picks up again along a path through the woods, and terminates in a Y embedded in the view terrace, with legs pointing to locations of the sunset at the winter and summer solstices. 
The cosmological aspect of the park ties into the myth, and is also a link to Fremont’s self-proclaimed identity as the “Center of the Universe."  The solstice lines at the view terrace and moon paving at the entrance reference solar and lunar cycles.  There are two locations where pipes in the patterns of constellations are embedded in walls, and the seating boulders in the view terrace are in the pattern of the constellation Corona Borealis, or Ariadne’s crown.

Corona Borealis Balls

Peak Bluff

Cosmic Rays

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No. 112 Freedome Park Camano Island

Freedom Park
Camano Island, WA            

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What's close by??? English Boom Trail

Freedom Park on Camano Island is a 3 acres open area near Terry's Corner that begings at the fork of NE Camano Drive and E North Camano Drive. On the east end there is a community board with information pamphlets on the island and upcoming event. If you look carefully enough you can spot a T-Rex hiding in the parking lot. Behind the community board is children's playground for munchkins to let out some energy.
On the hill you can find a Ships Bell and a war memorial to WWII veterans of the area. Other areas include a bronze elephant, stone sculptures and a gazebo. To the west the park boarders on Terry's Corner which features small shops and the islands public library.

T-Rex in the Parking Lot

T-Rex in front of the Welcome Sign

Ships Bell

Totem Pole

Steal Sculpture along HWy 537

Veterans Memorial

Stone Sculpture

Bronze Elephant Sculpture

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