Leschi Park is an park in the
Leschi neighborhood of
Seattle
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,
Washington
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, named after
Chief Leschi of the
Nisqually tribe. The majority of the park is a grassy hillside that lies west of Lakeside Avenue S. and features tennis courts, picnic tables, and a playground.
Across Lakeside Avenue to the east is the western shore of
Lake Washington
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and a small lawn with benches. To its south is the southern portion of Leschi Moorage, separated from the northern portion by a parking lot in the E. Yesler Way right-of-way, private docks, and an office/restaurant complex.
The cable car run from
Pioneer Square
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that operated from September 27, 1888, to August 10, 1940, terminated here. As with
Madison Park to the north, there was a cross-lake ferry run from Leschi Park to the
Eastside before the construction of the
Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge
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. Seattle's first
zoo
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was located here, but moved to
Woodland Park in 1903. Leschi Park borders
Frink Park
Frink Park is a 17.2 acre (70,000 m²) park in the Leschi neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It is a heavily wooded hillside and ravine through which flows Frink Creek. Most of the park is bounded by 31st Avenue S. in the west, 34th Avenue S. i ...
in its southwest corner.
The
Duwamish Duwamish may refer to:
* Duwamish tribe, a Native American tribe in Washington state
* Duwamish River, in Washington state
* Duwamish (fireboat), ''Duwamish'' (fireboat)
See also
* Elliott Bay, often called "Duwamish Bay" in the 19th century
* Du ...
called the area "Changes-Its-Face" (
Lushootseed: s7ayá7oos), referring to an enormous and powerful supernatural horned snake that was said to live there.
Steamboat operations
From about 1890 to about 1910, Leschi Park was an important stop for
steamboats which ran on Lake Washington.
References
External links
Parks Department page on Leschi Park
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Parks in Seattle