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Goldens Gardens Park developer E.B. Cox planned an amusemzent park along the shore west of his subdivision at the new north boundary of Seattle. In 1907 he solicited advice from J.C. Olmsted, whose recommendations included suggestions about paths connecting down the steep bluffs to the shore and ways to cross the rail tracks to reach the beach.
Goldens Gardens Park developer E.B. Cox planned an amusement park along the shore west of his subdivision at the new north boundary of Seattle. In 1907 he solicited advice from J.C. Olmsted, whose recommendations included suggestions about paths connecting down the steep bluffs to the shore and ways to cross the rail tracks to reach the beach. Plan 02690-21-sh2 that Cox gave Olmsted states that Golden Gardens Park "Will be the Finest Park on the Pacific Coast."
At the time Olmsted was in Seattle to recommend parkland to the Board of Park Commissioners for the newly annexed areas of Seattle, including Ballard. In his notes he writes that "The whole stretch of bluff ought to be in park all the way to city boundary, if it were possible,..." In 1923, the city acquired Golden Gardens Park.
The popular 67-acre park features beaches with tidelands, dunes, renovated wetland lagoons, a renovated bathhouse, recreational field, playground, picnic shelters, streams, miles of native forest trails, and more.
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