items tagged with park
August 31, 2011
When it comes to entertaining kids outdoors, it’s hard to beat Storvik Park on 32nd Avenue. This nine-acre park offers something for everyone, including a wonderful community-built playground dedicated in 2008. In addition to playgrounds, the park features a ball … Continue reading →
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May 24, 2011
If you haven’t been down to see it yet, make a point of putting the Seafarers’ Memorial Park on your calendar. This park, located adjacent to the south end of Cap Sante Boat Haven, is destined to be a favorite … Continue reading →
Tags: memorial, park, Seafarers
May 20, 2011
It was a perfect day to mark the culmination of a years-long reclamation project at Seafarers’ Memorial Park, the shoreline park owned and operated by residents of the Anacortes Port District. A sun-splashed Mt. Baker loomed on the horizon as … Continue reading →
Tags: park, Port, Seafarers
April 27, 2011
Causland Park in downtown Anacortes features a unique design by French-Canadian artist and architect John Baptiste LePage (1857-1939). LePage also supervised construction of the park, accomplished over a two-year period by a team of volunteers. Great Northern Railroad donated the … Continue reading →
Tags: causland, lepage, park
April 17, 2009
I pulled over at Sharpe Park the other day, before the spring showers came. It’s a wonderful place for a west side island bluff adventure.
Tags: park, sharpe
April 10, 2009
During Thursday’s break in weather I stopped in at Ace of Hearts Rotary Park, a park in the making off of “H” Avenue in south Anacortes. I disrupted the sunbathing of this heron, who opted for a new spot in … Continue reading →
Tags: ace of hearts, heron, park
February 25, 2009
Work continues with landscaping and placement of playground equipment at John and Doris Tursi Park near the entrance to Rock Ridge, at the intersection of West 12th and Pennsylvania Avenue.
Tags: park, rock ridge, tursi
January 28, 2009
Port of Anacortes facilities already include awesome public amenities at Cap Sante Boat Haven, but now there is a new park at the foot of “O” Avenue on the Guemes Channel. This park project, which included environmental enhancements (removal of … Continue reading →
Tags: "O", park, Port
January 26, 2009
This couple made a wise decision Tuesday morning, taking advantage of the sun for a romantic stroll along the path from Cap Sante Boat Haven to Rotary Park on the Anacortes shoreline.
Tags: Cap Sante, park, rotary, stroll
January 15, 2009
Take advantage of the coming break in weather to get out and enjoy one of this community’s most precious assets … Washington Park. Take 12th Street/Oakes west past the ferry terminal and hook up with the loop road that leads … Continue reading →
Tags: park, photo, washington
January 7, 2009
Construction and landscaping crews are busy this week at the new John and Doris Tursi Park near the intersection of West 12th and Pennsylvania Avenue, adjacent to the Rock Ridge neighborhood and Anacortes Airport.
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December 21, 2008
Dressed in a blanket of snow Sunday morning was the gazebo at historic Causland Memorial Park in downtown Anacortes.
Tags: causland, park, snow
