U.S. News Insider Tip: Birdwatching enthusiasts will find Gas Works Park to be a haven for various bird species. Bring a pair of binoculars for the chance to spot double-crested cormorants, goosanders ...

On most sunny days, Seattle’s Gas Works Park is dotted with tourists and locals, some snapping pictures of their friends with the city skyline as a backdrop, others camped on a picnic blanket or towel ...

SEATTLE – Gas Works Park has been nominated as one of the best city parks in North America by USA Today. Gas Works Park, in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood, is known for its stunning views of Lake ...

SEATTLE — For over 90 years, Seattle's Gas Works Park and its iconic cracking towers have been a defining feature of the city's skyline. However, a debate over historic preservation versus public ...

Before you fly a kite at Gas Works Park, you should know what you’re standing on. A “derelict, obsolescent, dump-heap, industrial wasteland.” That’s how Richard Haag, the park’s landscape architect, ...

Gas Works Park, on the north shore of Lake Union, wasn’t always known by its simple yet descriptive name. In January 1970, the Seattle City Council voted to call the yet-to-be-created spot “Myrtle ...