This Friday, September 19, is PARK(ing) Day, and we are excited to have 50 parks popping up around town from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.…the most ever for PARK(ing) Day in Seattle!
We’ve got a new map of all the parks online—along with a list of addresses and park descriptions—to help you plan your day. We’ll have an interactive map available later this week to capture any last minute changes, but you can start plotting your park-hopping now.
Even though you probably have to go to work or school on Friday, we hope you’ll have a few minutes to check out the cool ways that your friends and neighbors are using a parking space for a day. There will be life-sized Jenga, greenhouses and trees, corn hole and board games, a Jimi Hendrix-inspired performance space, forbidden books, pop-up protected bike lanes, pianos, art, and just about anything else you can imagine!
PARK(ing) Day happens once a year, on the third Friday in September, and is an opportunity for any Seattleite to temporarily turn parking spaces into parks. The event raises awareness about the importance of creating a walkable, livable, healthy city and helps people re-think how our streets can be used.
So check out the map below (click map for larger version) and figure out which parks you want to visit on PARK(ing) Day. Think you can make it to all of them? We’re going to try and we’ll be tweeting as we go—follow along @seattledot and @parkingdaySEA and use #seaparkingday for your own photos.
