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One approaches the park from the north by Lake Washington Boulevard S, or from the west by S Orcas Street. The main parking lot and a tennis court are located in the southwest corner. The most commonly used Trail is a car-free loop around the park. It is flat and 2.4 miles long ( 3.8 km). Others lead all over the interior, including a few car-accessible roads that lead to amenities including an Amphitheater and picnic area. Seward Park features numerous small beaches, the largest one on its southwest side, as well as a playground and an arts center. The 300 acres (121 ha) of Seward Park have about a 120 acre (48.6 ha) surviving remnant of Old Growth forest, providing a glimpse of what some of the lake shore looked like before the city of Seattle. With trees older than 250 years and many less than 200, the Seward Park forest is relatively young (the forests of Seattle before the city were fully mature, up through 1,000–2,000 years old).(1) Sherwood (2) Talbert (2006-05-01, "Magnificent") HISTORY See Also: Seward Park, Seattle, Washington The area has been inhabited since the end of the last in 1916 lowered the level of Lake Washington, the peninsula was an island with points, or "noses", at the north and south ends.1 The purchase of the park was suggested as early as 1892, but was sidelined due to its distance from what was then the city. However, the Olmsted Brothers assimilated it into its plan for Seattle parks, and the city of Seattle bought Bailey Peninsula in 1911 for $322,000, and named the park after William H. Seward , former United States Secretary Of State , of Alaska Purchase fame. At the entrance to the park, in a wooded island filled with flowers between the circular entrance and exit road, there is a little-known monument: a ''taiko-gata'' stone lantern, a gift of friendship from the City of Yokohama , Japan, to the City of Seattle, given in 1930 in gratitude to Seattle's assistance to Yokohama after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. NOTES AND REFERENCES }}} BIBLIOGRAPHY FURTHER READING
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