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 Parks and Recreation (SPR) is eyeing 2025 to start construction on a $10 million improvement project at Freeway Park. The approximately 5-acre park opened at 700 Seneca St. in 1976.

SEATTLE — A section of northbound Interstate 5 got a little wider, and a bit easier to navigate, after 55 years. After years with a bottleneck, a third lane just opened on the freeway in ...