Northwest Seattle
Seattle's Northwest corner developed slowly beginning in the 1900s and much of it lay beyond the city limits until 1954. The first neighborhoods tended to cluster along the route of Seattle-Everett interurban railway and early electric streetcar lines, and the population expanded with completion of Highway 99 (Aurora Avenue N) in the early 1930s. Developer Guy Phinney owned much of the area around Green Lake, including Woodland Park and its menagerie, which his widow sold to the city in 1899. John C. Olmsted later planned the lake's scenic ring road and trails and laid out the original Woodland Park Zoo, now regarded as one of the nation's finest.
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- Broadview & Bitter Lake
- Haller Lake
- Green Lake
- Greenwood
- Licton Springs
- Phinney Ridge
- Playland Amusement Park
- Woodland Park Zoo
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