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Cal Anderson Park
Cal Anderson Park is a public park on Seattle’s Capitol Hill that includes Lincoln Reservoir and the Bobby Morris Playfield.
The north end of the open park features Waterworks, a large mountain-shaped water fountain feeding a shallow texture pool, a reflecting pool, and a wading pool. The south end features the lighted Bobby Morris Playfield. The wading pool operates in the summer months from 12:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Other features:
Lincoln Reservoir was begun in 1889 in response to the Great Seattle Fire of the same year and was completed in 1901. A parcel just south of it was named Lincoln Park the same year. The famed Olmsted Brothers designed the park as part of their many works in the Seattle area. Over time, the area underwent several name changes. In 1908 it was developed as a playfield, and in 1922 its name was changed to Broadway Playfield so as not to duplicate the name of the new Lincoln Park in West Seattle. The playfield was named after Bobby Morris, a former King County, Washington, auditor, in 1980. Meanwhile, the area around the reservoir came to be known as Lincoln Reservoir Park. On April 10, 2003, the entire site was officially renamed Cal Anderson Park, in honor of Cal Anderson, Washington’s first openly gay state legislator, who died of AIDS-related complications in 1995.
From 2003 to 2005, the reservoir was rebuilt as a covered basin.
Three security cameras were installed in the park in April 2008 in an effort to combat certain types of criminal activity, namely vandalism, drug dealing, and public sex.
In 2004, World Naked Bike Ride Seattle established a tradition of stopping briefly in the park, usually in the midsection near the shelter house and water feature. Body Pride ride also began making stops in 2005.
In 2009, Forbes magazine recognized Cal Anderson Park as one of the 12 Best City Parks in the U.S.
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Cal Anderson Park
Cal Anderson Park is a public park on Seattle’s Capitol Hill that includes Lincoln Reservoir and the Bobby Morris Playfield.
The north end of the open park features Waterworks, a large mountain-shaped water fountain feeding a shallow texture pool, a reflecting pool, and a wading pool. The south end features the lighted Bobby Morris Playfield. The wading pool operates in the summer months from 12:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Other features:
Lincoln Reservoir was begun in 1889 in response to the Great Seattle Fire of the same year and was completed in 1901. A parcel just south of it was named Lincoln Park the same year. The famed Olmsted Brothers designed the park as part of their many works in the Seattle area. Over time, the area underwent several name changes. In 1908 it was developed as a playfield, and in 1922 its name was changed to Broadway Playfield so as not to duplicate the name of the new Lincoln Park in West Seattle. The playfield was named after Bobby Morris, a former King County, Washington, auditor, in 1980. Meanwhile, the area around the reservoir came to be known as Lincoln Reservoir Park. On April 10, 2003, the entire site was officially renamed Cal Anderson Park, in honor of Cal Anderson, Washington’s first openly gay state legislator, who died of AIDS-related complications in 1995.
From 2003 to 2005, the reservoir was rebuilt as a covered basin.
Three security cameras were installed in the park in April 2008 in an effort to combat certain types of criminal activity, namely vandalism, drug dealing, and public sex.
In 2004, World Naked Bike Ride Seattle established a tradition of stopping briefly in the park, usually in the midsection near the shelter house and water feature. Body Pride ride also began making stops in 2005.
In 2009, Forbes magazine recognized Cal Anderson Park as one of the 12 Best City Parks in the U.S.