Discovery

Celebrate Seattle Arbor Day! Ask not what your park can do for you – ask what you can do for your park.

Sep

Finally, It’s Fort Lawton Park

Just over forty years ago on September 2, 1972 the front page of the Seattle Times read: “Finally, It’s Fort Lawton Park”. The sub-headline was “Patricia Nixon Cox, darts in and delivers deed”. Ironically, this was the culmination of a...

Aug

Seattle’s Discovery Park

Seattle Channel’s Lowell Deo, circa 2000, visits the city’s largest park to see what’s new.

Aug

Forest Steward Spotlight: Tim Garland

Restoration, Volunteer

What lead you to start working as a Forest Steward? I love birds, and for years have spent countless hours in Discovery Park watching, photographing and generally enjoying the huge variety of bird species found in Discovery Park. Discovery Park...

Aug

Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks – Discovery Park Walking Tour

Secure and preserve for the use of the people as much as possible…of water and mountain views and of woodlands. – John Charles Olmsted – regarding the landscape of Fort Lawton This walking tour will be led by members of...

Aug

Discovery Park is Great – Just Leave it Alone

Open Space

Dori Monson from KIRO Radio Seattle chats with Phillip Vogelzang, President of Friends of Discovery Park, about open space and the future of Discovery Park. You can learn more about this topic by visiting our page here.

Jul

He’s Friendly!