Seattle’s Freeway Park, a pioneering work of modernist landscape architecture by Lawrence Halprin and Angela Danadjieva that is widely recognized as the world’s first freeway cap park, ...

The park was hard-won, with citizen activists demonstrating on behalf of a lidded freeway as far back as the 1950s. Twenty years later, the five-acre Freeway Park was dedicated on the nation’s ...

(In addition to the park itself, the convention center also acts as a lid over Interstate 5 as it passes through downtown Seattle.) Of the $10 million Freeway Park budget, $9,250,000 is reserved ...

Founded in 1993, the Freeway Park Association is a nonprofit that advocates for the park and its legacy. While it only has two staff members, it works closely with Seattle Parks Department and is ...

With the approach of what should be a time of celebration, the 30th anniversary of Freeway Park, Seattle attorney James Ellis tells a painful story bespeaking neglect of this 5-acre urban oasis ...

A neighborhood group is pushing to rename Seattle’s Freeway Park after longtime civic leader Jim Ellis. “He’s Mr. Freeway Park,” said David Brewster, head of the Freeway Park Neighborhood ...

When Freeway Park opened above Interstate 5 in Seattle on July 4, 1976, it was a big hit as people flocked there to lie in the sun and enjoy the waterfalls.

SEATTLE - The biggest park in downtown got a safety check-up Thursday night, as volunteers highlighted the dark and potentially dangerous spaces throughout Freeway Park.Freeway Park is unique in ...

The first park of its kind in the U.S., Seattle’s Freeway Park will be preserved for years to come.

“This is the largest open public space in the city. It is 5.2 acres,” said Bob Anderson, board president of the Jim Ellis Freeway Park Association.

Colonnade is a mountain bike skills park tucked beneath 16 lanes of freeway at the north end of downtown Seattle. Colonnade opened in 2005 after three years of collaboration by the , the Eastlake ...