Olympia: Park
Places and attractions in the Park category
Mima mounds
Mima mounds are low, flattened, circular to oval, domelike, natural mounds that are composed of loose, unstratified, often gravelly sediment that is an overthickened A horizon.
Heritage Park
Heritage Park is a 24-acre state-owned park adjacent to the campus of the Washington State Capitol, Capitol Lake and downtown Olympia, Washington.
Artesian Commons
Artesian Commons is a 0.2-acre park in downtown Olympia, Washington built in May 2014 around an artesian spring. It is described by the city as Olympia's first urban park.
Monarch Contemporary Art Center and Sculpture Park
Monarch Contemporary Art Center and Sculpture Park is an outdoor art gallery located along the Chehalis Western Trail near Tenino, in southern Thurston County, Washington. Opened in 1998 by sculptor Myrna Orsini as "a gift to the community," the 80-acre park features sculpture gardens.
Percival Landing Park
Percival Landing Park is a public park located in Olympia, Washington.
Priest Point Park
Priest Point Park is a public park located in Olympia, Washington. Established in 1905, it was the city's first waterfront park, providing access to the Budd Inlet of Puget Sound.
Yashiro Japanese Garden
Yashiro Japanese Garden is a Japanese garden located in Olympia, Washington, United States. Designed by Robert Murase and dedicated on May 6, 1990, the garden was created to symbolize the relationship between Olympia and its sister city of Yashiro, Japan.
Tolmie State Park
Tolmie State Park is a public recreation area covering 154 acres on Nisqually Beach on Puget Sound, eight miles northeast of Olympia, Washington.
Watershed Park
Watershed Park is a 153-acre temperate rain forest public park located in Olympia, Washington that supplied almost all the city's water from privately established wells in the late 1800s.
Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area
Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area is a natural reserve in Olympia, Washington protected under the Washington Natural Areas Program. Once an important processing facility for the logging industry, it has been designated as the Weyerhaeuser South Bay Log Dump Rural Historic Landscape.
Grass Lake Nature Park
Grass Lake Nature Park is a nature reserve in Olympia, Washington. The park has an area of 171 acres. The central feature of the park is Grass Lake, a reservoir dammed in 1966. Swamp grass in the lake accounts for the name. The lake and surrounding wetland has been owned by the City of Olympia since the 1980s.
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