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Jackson Park
Jackson Park Golf Course in 2020

Type	Urban park and Golf course
Location	Seattle, Washington
Coordinates	47°43′58.9″N 122°19′7.3″W / 47.733028°N 122.318694°W / 47.733028; -122.318694
Area	160.7-acre (0.650 km)
Established	1928; 96 years ago (1928)
Operated by	Seattle Parks and Recreation

Jackson Park is a 160.7-acre (0.650 km) public park and golf course in north Seattle, Washington, occupying most of the space between N.E. 145th Street on the north, N.E. 130th Street on the south, 5th Avenue N.E. on the west, and 15th Avenue N.E. on the east. It opened to the public in 1928.

Golf course

Jackson Park has both a nine-hole par three course and a full eighteen-hole long course. It offers amenities such as a pro shop, cafe and bar, cart rentals, driving range, and putting practice greens. It underwent renovations in 2001 to allow Thornton Creek to flow through in a more environmentally beneficial way. This renovation added much water to the front nine and increased the difficulty significantly. The course also offers junior camps that run throughout the summer. The official course record is 62 and was set by amateur golfer, and former Seattle Mariners pitcher, Erik Hanson in the 2015 Seattle Amateur. Fellow amateur Vinnie Murphy equaled that score in the 2016 edition of the tournament.

The golf course was one of six finalist sites proposed for a northern bus base for Metro Transit in the 1980s. It was not chosen due to backlash from golfers and local residents.

Neighborhood

The neighborhood surrounding the park is sometimes referred to as Jackson Park. Its boundaries are the city of Shoreline to the north, the neighborhood of Lake City to the east, the Northgate area to the south, and the neighborhood of Haller Lake to the west.

References

"2015 Seattle Amateur Results" (PDF).
"2016 Seattle Amateur Results" (PDF).
Coughlin, Dan (November 29, 1982). "Golf course is one proposal for Metro's north bus base". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. p. A1.
Aweeka, Charles (February 16, 1983). "Metro pursues scaled-back North-End bus base". The Seattle Times. p. H1.
Carlton, Debera (July 20, 1983). "Relax, golfers: Jackson Park is now a longshot as bus base site". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. p. B4.

Protected Areas of Seattle

Federal

National Parks	Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Wing Luke Museum (affiliated)

City parks and
preserves

Greater than 50 acres (20 ha)	Alki Beach Camp Long Carkeek Discovery Genesee Golden Gardens Green Lake Interlaken Jackson Jefferson Lake Washington Boulevard Lincoln Magnolia Tidelands Magnuson Puget Schmitz Seattle Center Seward Westcrest West Seattle Golf Course Woodland
10–50 acres (4.0–20.2 ha)	Brighton Playfield Cheasty Boulevard South Colman Condon Way Centerstrip Dahl Playfield Emma Schmitz Memorial Overlook Fauntleroy Frink Garfield Gas Works Hamilton Viewpoint Herring's House Park (Tualtwx) Hiawatha Interbay Golf Kinnear Lakeridge Lawton Leschi Longfellow Creek Madrona Magnolia Magnolia Playfield Maple Leaf Reservoir Maple Wood Playfield Matthews Beach Meadowbrook Playfield Me-Kwa-Mooks Montlake Playfield Mount Baker Northacres Open Water Park Pigeon Point Pritchard Island Beach Queen Anne Boulevard Ravenna Park Riverview Playfield Roxhill Sam Smith Soundview Playfield Stan Sayres Memorial Volunteer Walt Hundley Playfield West Seattle Stadium
0.02–10 acres (0.0081–4.0469 ha)	Alvin Larkins Beer Sheva Bell Street Bryant Playground Cal Anderson Cascade Playground Cowen City Hall Commodore Denny Denny Blaine Donnie Chin Dr. Jose Rizal East Montlake Fairview Fritz Hedges Waterway Park Freeway Fremont Peak Hing Hay Home of the Good Shepherd I-5 Colonnade Jack Block Jimi Hendrix Kerry Kiwanis Ravine Kobe Terrace Lake People Lake Union Lakeview Louisa Boren Madison Marshall Park McCurdy Meridian Playground Myrtle Edwards Nora's Woods North Passage Point Northacres Occidental Olympic Sculpture Park Oxbow Parsons Gardens Peace Roanoke Schmitz Boulevard South Passage Point Terry Pettus Park Tilikum Place Union Bay Natural Area Victor Steinbrueck Viretta Waterfront West Montlake Westlake
Under 0.02 acres (0.0081 ha)	Boylston Place Lakeview Place McGraw Square Westlake Square

Other

Farms, gardens and P-Patches	Beacon Food Forest Danny Woo International District Community Garden Interbay P-Patch Marra Farm Picardo Farm
Green belts	St. Mark's Greenbelt SW Queen Anne Greenbelt East Duwamish Greenbelt (The Jungle) West Duwamish Greenbelt
Zoos and aquariums	Seattle Aquarium Woodland Park Zoo
Arboretums and botanical gardens	Carl S. English Jr. Botanical Gardens Kubota Garden Piper Orchard Seattle Chinese Garden Seattle Japanese Garden South Seattle College Arboretum Volunteer Park Conservatory Washington Park Arboretum
Landscape architecture	Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition Olmsted parks
Multi-use trails	Burke-Gilman Trail Chief Sealth Trail

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