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St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Centennial GardenParent rating: ![]() Location: 15 Roy Street, Seattle, WA Worshipers have gathered for over 100 years at St. Paul's, located just a few blocks from the |
Seattle TilthParent rating: ![]() Location: Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Avenue North, Room 120, Seattle, WA |
Country Village ShopsParent rating: ![]() Location: 23718 Bothell Everett Highway, Bothell, WA Bothell's Country Village shopping center features more than 40 shops and restaurants clustered around gardens, ponds, wandering paths, and picnic and play areas - including a half-mile trai...
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Hiram M. Chittenden (Ballard) LocksParent rating: ![]() Location: 3105 NW 54th Street, Seattle, WA This is the third most-visited tourist attraction in Seattle, but don't let that deter you. There's a reason why a million folks a year want to visit the place locally referred to as "the Balla...
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Washington Park ArboretumParent rating: ![]() Location: Graham Visitors Center, 2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA Every season is beautiful here. The well-loved arboretum's collection of 10,000 trees, shrubs, and vines ensures that something is at its peak every month of the year. In the fall, the Woodland Garden...
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Swanson's NurseryParent rating: ![]() Location: 9701 15th Avenue NW, Seattle, WA Who says that a park is the only good place to take a walk with the kids? Swanson's, tucked onto a five-acre view lot at the top of well-manicured Blue Ridge, is a fine place to go when ...
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Parsons GardenParent rating: ![]() Location: 7th Avenue W & W Highland Drive, Seattle, WA Enter this quiet garden through the iron gate and feel like you've discovered a secret part of the city. This park, once a family garden, was donated to the City of Seattle in 1956 by the Parso...
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Fairbank Animal FarmParent rating: ![]() Location: 15308 52nd Avenue W, Edmonds, WA This working farm is open to the public on October weekends only. It features an animal barn with lots of pens (pigs, turkeys, chickens, ducks, and more) and sprawling gardens, set among the tr...
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Howarth ParkParent rating: ![]() Location: 1127 Olympic Boulevard, Everett, WA The three-tiered, 28-acre park is Everett's original bathing beach, and provides spectacular views, Picnic and BBQ areas, trails, tennis courts, the Lewis and Clark Native Garden, an off-leash dog are...
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West Woodland ParkParent rating: ![]() Location: Phinney Avenue N and N 59th Street, Seattle, WA An innovatively designed playspace with an outdoor-adventures theme. Children run happily around the curves of a large rock-lined spiral; they climb on boulders, logs, and stumps, and hide insi...
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Lavender Hills FarmParent rating: ![]() Location: 7508 108th Street NE, Marysville, WA Lavender Hills Farm offers fresh cut/you-cut and dried lavender and lavender products. Families can visit the lavender fields and U-pick flower garden, and stay for a picnic. |
Weyerhaeuser Pacific Rim Bonsai CollectionParent rating: ![]() Location: 33663 Weyerhaeuser Way S, Federal Way, WA The Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection is housed at Weyerhaeuser's corporate headquarters and features 60 bonsai from six Pacific Rim nations. The garden closed to the public ... |
Rhododendron Species Botanical GardenParent rating: ![]() Location: 2525 S 336th Street, Federal Way, WA Federal Way's Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden is among the world's largest collections of rhododendrons and includes more than 10,000 rhododendrons representing more than 600 species. The...
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