Storytime Programs, Family Nature
Classes, Summer Camps, and an
outdoor year-round nature preschool are
all perks of this amazing space.
But CUH is mostly known for its incredible
gardens, including a Soest Herbaceous
Display Garden
and Seattle
Garden Club's
Fragrance Garden.
Soest offers a
fantastic learning
opportunity
for those new to
gardening and was
created to help local gardeners select the
right plants for specific light, warmth, soil
type, and other conditions. The Fragrance
Garden inspires visitors with delicious
scents all year long: winter means daphne
and camelia, spring features narcissus and
hyacinths, summer delights with hosta and
gardenia, and fall offers actaea racemosa.
As the seasons change, CUH offers guided
tours, or a map allows garden lovers to
guide themselves.
For more space to stroll and explore,
head over to Union Bay Natural Area.
Seventy-four acres and four miles of
shoreline await, including the Yesler Swap
Trail. The UW and others work to preserve
the area for people, animals, plants, and
birds, making what was once a dumping
ground a protected habitat. Join a volunteer
work party or just relax and enjoy the area
year-round.
These area's are well known for some of
the best spots for bird-watching. You'll
see several microhabitats here that offer
shelter to some 200 species of birds.
Discover
migrating
shore birds like
sandpipers or
green herons,
American
bitterns, peregrine
falcons, and even barn
owls and Lapland longspurs. These birds
are unusually well-accustomed to people
and allow for close viewing.
L
aurelhurst Beach Club is one of
the main reasons that folks flock
to Laurelhurst in the summer months.
Incorporated in 1923 for the purpose of
creating a beach club for residents this
gated, private beach on the shores of Lake
Washington offers a fun day in the Seattle
sun. To gain entry residents must live in
certain parameters
(map) or make
good friends with
someone who
does. Once you
do its as if you
have stepped
into an elite club
of summer time
revelry. Sailing
and swimming lessons are available in
season as are picnic tables and access to
WiFi.
Summertime
Fun Time
