Parks

Mayfair Park (Warren Ave N and 2nd Ave N)

Although I have no scientific basis for this claim and not even any made up internet data on this subject, I hereby declare that Queen Anne must have the most parks of any Seattle neighborhood. It has to be!

Yesterday, a friend and I took on "The Great Ravine," staircase S7 and Mayfair Park. As we approached Mayfair Park, we both looked at each other and said "Who knew!?" What a fantastic little, quiet park, complete with play area, huge giant old trees, picnic tables and a slide that will be a blast in the next snow storm!

We located staircase S7 and took the rickety stairs down to Mayfair Place N and had to follow the dead end street to "The Great Ravine!" (Again, I love these names). As we sort of semi-trespassed we saw that the street did in fact end at a great green space and we looked up and saw the bridge that we normally use to get to Aurora. We couldn't tell if this street was a private street, as it had this cute turnaround section, which looked like a campsite and in fact had these cute campers strung in the tree:
So instead of being scared that we were trespassing, we just continued up the dead up. Until we got to another street! Not a dead end at all.

We climbed staircase 256 up and over to a dead end, where the car garage had a better view of the city than most of the residents!

Down under Aurora and up the other staircase 41 to Canlis (no, we did not stop for dinner).

In case you have never been, this is Queen Anne's answer to the troll underneath our side of the Aurora Bridge.

And then a steep down 4th Ave, almost to Fremont. Then back up staircase 471, whew, what a staircase.

Later in the day I had an opportunity to play bocce ball at David Rogers Park. Again, who knew? I had never been and it's a huge park, complete with big open spaces, trails, several really nice tennis courts, swings and a play area. You can take the trail down to a great soccer field and a track and take the S1 stairs back up. Again, another park in Queen Anne.

Is there no end to your parks, Queen Anne!?