By next spring, the current play structure at Golden Gardens park will be torn down and replaced with more play equipment in a new location. Seattle Parks and Recreation is working with Hough Beck and Baird landscape architects to design the new play area, with input from the community. According to Virginia Hassinger, the project …
Earlier this week we published pictures of an abandoned sailboat that washed up on the shores of Golden Gardens. Lunchtime at Golden Gardens from Andrius Simutis on Vimeo. Andrius sent us this video. “I was down there for lunch yesterday and came across a crew from the parks department who dragged the boat out, smashed …
Although today feels like spring, it’s really the last day of winter. Come say goodbye to winter with other Ballardites this evening at Golden Gardens. There is a group in the forum planning a meet-up starting around 5 p.m. and going into the evening. Come out, say hi, meet your neighbors and bid this season …
Folks visiting the north end of Golden Gardens today were surprised to discover an abandoned sailboat washed up on shore. Tom sent us this photo of beachgoers giving it a look. “It looks like a home-built sailboat that’s had a rough life in the last few days,” writes My Ballard reader Eric. “The deck, keel …
When the weather is just perfect, Jim Stringfellow has one thing on his mind: kiteboarding. Stringfellow lives and breathes this sport. “You wake up, the first thing you want to do is look at the wind readings,” he told us recently at Golden Gardens. “If it’s blowing, you figure out how you can call in …
Updated: In 20+ MPH winds on a cold, rainy day, dozens of Ballard residents took the plunge at Golden Gardens. And of course, we shot some video: Sometimes, one photo says at all. Officially, the water temperature was 49 degrees, and the wind was blowing at full tilt. And some folks, believe it or not, …
Two people swam safely to shore after their sailboat capsized just south of Golden Gardens late Wednesday afternoon, according to the Coast Guard and reported by our partners, the Seattle Times. The boat was later towed to the marina. Back in September, another sailboat ran aground north of Golden Gardens, and the passenger escaped safely, …
The Christmas Ship Festival continues Tuesday night as the lit-up Argosy ship sails through the Locks to Golden Gardens. For 60 years, Seattleites have watched as the Christmas Ship and other boats, all decked out for the holiday, sail by. Tonight the boats will be going through the Ballard Locks between 8:10 and 8:30 p.m. …
Update: A small sailboat ran aground on the rocks north of Golden Gardens this evening, just down from NW Esplanade St. Fortunately, the man on the boat was not injured. The Coast Guard told him to wait until high tide later tonight before they plan to pull the sailboat off the rocks. “It’s disheartening,” the …
Update: The Seattle Fire Department’s rope team rescued a man who fell down the hill near the dog park above Golden Gardens Park. It happened just before 5:30 p.m. Spokeswoman Dana Vander Houwen with Seattle Fire tells us they arrived on scene to find a man in his twenties who fell about 50 feet down …
It was quite the spectacle at the Shilshole Marina boat ramp for much of the day as an enormous crane worked delicately to extract the float plane that flipped over off Golden Gardens this morning. (See our earlier story.) The plane was upside down, most of it several feet underwater. The crowd watched as the …
Updated: The pilot of a small float plane is uninjured after his aircraft flipped in the water near Golden Gardens around 6:45 this morning. Witnesses say the pilot was picked up by a nearby boat and taken to Shilshole Marina where he refused medical treatment. The pilot, Roger Collins, told KIRO7 that he was flying …