Dearborn Park

I’m pretty sure I lived in my current neighborhood for at least a year before discovering this small park in my ‘hood. It’s connected east of Dearborn Elementary school, in a particularly lush area of Beacon Hill.
If you go through the park and continue south past the school, it connects you to the Chief Sealth Biking/​Running Trail, which I LOVE to run on. When running with my canine steed, I let her run around and play fetch in the thick green grass field at the center (can get muddy during rainy weather) before hitting the Trail. If you’re lucky, you’ll find other dog owners there as well with the same idea.
There’s an odd cement «stage» complete with stairs close to the kids’ playground. I don’t know what it’s really used for, but if I was little again, I would probably round up my old Heart cover band from when I was 8 years old and put on a good show ;)
Amenities include (2) tennis courts, a cement/​gravel walking trail that may be an ¹⁄₈ (?) of a mile ’round, playground with swingset, and two picnic tables. When school is in session, it can be hard to schedule around recess time but the evenings are usually lovely. On Spring weekends, you can find teeny-​tiny kids playing soccer there (!!!). Soooo cute. I kinda wish they had restrooms here too; although I sometimes run a bit faster when I get to the homestretch of Dearborn Park, which is probably good for me haha
Check out the walking trails in the woods around the park/​school too. If it’s not too overgrown, you can close your eyes and pretend that you have landed in some peninsulan forest on the coast.