Bitter Lake Reservoir Park — Attraction in Seattle

A beautiful little park with a playground for the kids, a small wading pool, tennis courts, playing fields and a beautiful lake(since COVID they have the actual lake blocked off) but in the spring you can watch the geese & the ducks courting each other & then there are baby chicks everywhere & thee is also a community center. It is located in a quite neighborhood( most the time) and I have spent many many hours just sitting by the lake enjoying the beautiful nature all around and I write......

A great little park with a baseball diamond, community center, children's park, and of course Bitter Lake.

There are some informational plaques describing how Bitter Lake came to be and why it is so bitter. It was bitter from the tannic acid runoff from logs that were produced by the sawmill that used to be there. It was later an amusement park for a while. Now it is a pleasant open space for the community.

It also has several...

Walk my dogs through here on the reg. They provide mutt mitts and trash bins, yet there is trash and doggy doo everywhere, even on the sidewalk. It's not the park's fault though, it's the lazy DGAF dog owners, cigarette smokers, and homeless junkies. Cars get broken into quite often along these streets. Lock your doors and don't leave any valuables in your car. You only make things worse for yourself and...