Discovery Park

At the base of a substantial hill in west central Seattle and right on Puget Sound across from Bainbridge Island is a beach park that feels surprisingly remote for a place just 6 miles from downtown. The other week, we took a masked, distanced park walk with old friends and their beautiful, well-trained border collie.

Wallace Falls State Park, WA

I frequently and greatly underestimate other people’s willpower and desire to hike up the side of a mountain on a sweltering hot weekend morning…so my boyfriend & I arrived at the wildly popular Wallace State Falls at a time when parking was so scarce, it easily added nearly a mile to our hike (we thought of our parking journey as a pre-hike hike).

Below: some views from the trail.