Phinney Ridge is a
neighborhood
A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area, ...
in north central
Seattle, Washington, United States. It is named after the ridge which runs north and south, separating
Ballard from
Green Lake, from approximately N. 45th to N. 75th Street.
The ridge, in turn, is named after
Guy C. Phinney,
lumber mill owner and
real estate developer, whose estate was bought by the city and turned into
Woodland Park in 1899. Phinney's estate had included a private
menagerie
A menagerie is a collection of captive animals, frequently exotic, kept for display; or the place where such a collection is kept, a precursor to the modern Zoo, zoological garden.
The term was first used in 17th-century France, in reference to ...
, and the western half of the park became what is now the
Woodland Park Zoo.
Routes
The rough boundaries of Phinney Ridge are Aurora Avenue N. (
State Route 99
International
* European route E99
Australia
* Springbrook Road, Queensland
Canada
* British Columbia Highway 99
* Ontario Highway 99 (former)
* Saskatchewan Highway 99
China
* G99 Expressway
India
* National Highway 99 (India)
I ...
) to the east, beyond which lies
Green Lake and the eastern half of
Woodland Park; N. 75th Street to the north, beyond which lies
Greenwood Green wood is unseasoned wood.
Greenwood or Green wood may also refer to:
People
* Greenwood (surname)
Settlements
Australia
* Greenwood, Queensland, a locality in the Toowoomba Region
* Greenwood, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth
C ...
; 8th Avenue N.W. to the west, beyond which lies
Ballard, and N. 50th and Market Streets to the south, beyond which lies Fremont and Wallingford. Phinney Ridge's main thoroughfare, which runs atop the ridge south of N. 67th Street, is Phinney Avenue N. North of N. 67th Street, the arterial swings a block to the west and becomes Greenwood Avenue N. The route is lined with many small businesses and shops, as well as the Phinney Neighborhood Center, located at the corner of Phinney and 67th. It has occupied the former John B. Allen Elementary School building, which was built in 1904, since 1981, when the school closed.
Wildlife
Wildlife in the area, especially adjacent to Woodland Park, has always been a subject of discussion; at least two medium-sized (8-15 individuals)
Coyote
The coyote (''Canis latrans'') is a species of canis, canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. It fills much of the same ecologica ...
packs are known to inhabit the area feeding off the large population of released
domestic rabbits that also called the park home until February 2006.
References
External links
Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas — Phinney RidgePhinney Neighborhood AssociationPhinney Ridge HistoryPhinney Ridge News
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