Stroll through Discovery Park

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Last week, a friend of a friend came to town and called me up. We had never met before, and this being her first time in Seattle, we ended up taking Maizy for a walk at Discovery Park.

Discovery Park was one of the places that made me fall in love with Seattle. On one of my first solo visits to Seattle Eric took me out to Discovery and we spent several hours wandering through the park. I couldn’t believe that right inside the city there was such a massive, gorgeous park.

Discovery is by far the largest park in Seattle spanning 534 acres and providing refuge for many animals. It is situated in Northwest Seattle in Magnolia. One side of the park is a long bluff overlooking the Puget Sound. One trail you can take (there are many) goes the length of the bluff and then down through the woods on a steep trail to the rocky beach below. This is the walk we did last week with Maizy.

Sometimes people ask what I love about Seattle. There are lots of tangible things that I love about this region—this park included. The natural beauty at every turn, the water, mountains, and greenery…and the fact that within one to two hours of the city you can be in those mountains, in the rainforest, or at the beach. As a geographer, I try to pay close attention to place. What certain places mean, what the history of certain places are and how places make us feel.  In a mostly intangible way, this region—this place—makes my soul sing. This region makes me feel alive and inspired—sunny days like this when everything is breathtakingly gorgeous and the cloudy, rainy days the rest of the year that feel like comfort and like home.

Do you have a place that makes you feel this way? 

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