Best New Seattle-Area Playgrounds of 2021
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Lakewood Play Area. Credit: Natasha Dillinger
Lakewood Play Area, Seattle
Recently unveiled updates at this neighborhood park have combined new and existing elements in a super new playground design. Community members said they wanted to keep the stone wall and the sandpit, so designers joined a fun new play structure with those elements. A bridge connects the wall to the all-ages structure, and various steps and ladders lead up and over to a half-enclosed tube slide.