People were great at reporting the locations of redwoods in Wallingford– I mapped them out here:
Then I went on a bike tour with my kids. The first stop was at Woodland Park and Motor Place. The redwood was little, but the art fence there is worth the trip:
Next up we saw a number of redwoods in people’s back yards south of 45th. They were all pretty hard to get to though, Without being able to pose kids or stuff in front of them, it was hard to capture scale. Here’s one of the more impressive ones on 39th:
And then at 40th and 4th ave NE:
After covering lower Wallingford, we swung by the Good Shepherd Center and had some fun with the panoramic mode on the camera, running vertically up the redwood at the Bittman estate:
At that point the kids had had enough. When we walked through the Good Shepherd Center they took their frustration out on the apple orchard:
Finally, we checked out the Redwoods along Aurora in Lower Woodland Park. There are easily a dozen there that are near the size of the Bittman Estate redwood, on both sides of Aurora and also one near the upper tennis courts. Check them out and try to shut out the drone of cars- they’ll make you feel little again, or maybe like a dinosaur is about to come crashing through the trees.
There’s a Sequoia along the alley between 52nd and 53rd, and between Kirkwood and Kensington, beautiful, good sized specimen….
We have a California Redwood, 100′ tall, in our yard. There were two, but one had been damaged years ago and it split into two trunks. The major wind storm from about seven years ago damaged it so badly we had to take it down. We are on Latona and Woodlawn, eight houses north of the Latona Pub.
I enjoyed this post and the photos. I love that decorated fence. Thanks.
A fun and enjoyable article — thanks! I’ll make a point of checking these out on our next walk.
The redwoods on 48th/49th by Burke are in my backyard. A single redwood was cut down in the 1940s and 3 saplings grew from the base.
i love trees in general, but why the obsession with a non-native species? let’s talk about the beautiful western red cedars…
There’s nothing wrong with native conifers, though some of them don’t seem to thrive in Seattle, but there are reasons why people take in interest in redwoods. Coast redwoods are the tallest trees, maybe the oldest, spectacular looking. And they’re tangled up in the history of our cultural appreciation of nature. I think the redwood is emblematic of the John Muir ideal, vs. say Teddy Roosevelt’s.
They are not in the Hood of Wally, but there are some beautiful and very approachable redwoods in Acacia Memorial Park 14951 Bothell Way NE Seattle, WA 98155. There are also some pretty terrific tree=formed rhododendrons there. Don’t feel funny – the dead don’t mind.