Outdoors in Tacoma

Vassault Park

Thea's Park

Franklin Park

Swan Creek Park

Park with trails for walking & mountain biking, a community garden, wooded canyon & upland forests.

Wapato Park

Urban park featuring a woodland area, a lake, walking trail & dog park, plus a historic pergola.

Cummings Park

McKinley Park

Green space with 26+ acres sporting tree-lined trails, a 7-acre dog park, 2 playgrounds & a pond.

Jefferson Park

15-acre community green area with a sprayground, sports fields & a field house, plus picnic tables.

Tacoma Nature Center

A 71-acre tract of wetlands & forest around Snake Lake, featuring trails & a visitors center.

Tacoma Chinese Reconciliation Park

Waterfront park created as an appeasement for the violent expulsion of Chinese residents in 1885.

Proctor Farmers' Market

Saturday marketplace for locally grown farm products, plus educational & entertainment programming.

Wapato Hills Park

Kandle Park

City park offering playgrounds, skate dots, picnic sites, a community garden & an outdoor pool.

W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory

Victorian conservatory in Wright Park with a big historical greenhouse housing 500+ plant species.

Wright Park

Greenspace with a vast collection of trees, plus a trail, playgrounds, sport courts & picnic areas.

Jack Hyde Park

Titlow Park

75-acre park with extensive beach frontage, a kids' spray park, playgrounds, trails & tennis courts.

Point Defiance Park

Large park with the Point Defiance zoo & aquarium, hikes in an old-growth forest, gardens & beaches.

Rose Garden

Dickman Mill Park