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Woodland Park is a 90.9 acre (368,000 m²) Park in Seattle 's Phinney Ridge and Green Lake neighborhoods that originated as the estate of Guy C. Phinney , Lumber Mill owner and Real Estate developer. Phinney died in 1893 , and in 1902 , the Olmsted Brothers firm of Boston was hired to design the city's parks, including Woodland Park. The park is split in half by Aurora Avenue N. ( Washington State Route 99 ). Its western half is given over to the Woodland Park Zoo . Its eastern half, which is connected to the zoo by arched bridges over the highway and often called Lower Woodland Park, consists of trails, a picnic area, ballfields, a Miniature Golf range, Horseshoe Pit s, and Lawn Bowling , and is contiguous with Green Lake Park . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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