Fritz Hedges Waterway Park

Fritz Hedges Waterway Park, also known as Portage Bay Park, is a 3.5-acre park on the north shore of Portage Bay in the neighborhood of University District of Seattle, Washington.

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Type: Park
Description: park on the north shore of Portage Bay in the neighborhood of University District of Seattle, Washington
Also known as: “Portage Bay Park”
Address: 1117 Northeast Boat Street, Seattle, WA 98105

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include University Bridge and Henry Art Gallery.

University Bridge

Bridge

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The University Bridge is a double-leaf bascule bridge in Seattle, Washington that carries Eastlake Avenue traffic over Portage Bay between Eastlake to the south and the University District to the north. University Bridge is situated 970 feet northwest of Fritz Hedges Waterway Park.

Henry Art Gallery

Museum

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The Henry Art Gallery is the contemporary art museum of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. It is administered by the Arts Division of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Washington. Henry Art Gallery is situated 1,900 feet northeast of Fritz Hedges Waterway Park.

Playhouse Theatre

Theater building

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The Playhouse Theatre is a theater located at 4045 University Way NE on The Ave in the University District, Seattle, Washington. It was converted from a tile warehouse in 1930 by Burton and Florence James, who set up the Seattle Repertory Playhouse with multi-ethnic performers and audiences. Playhouse Theatre is situated 1,700 feet north of Fritz Hedges Waterway Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include University District and Eastlake.

University District

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The University District, or "U-District", surrounds the University of Washington in northeast Seattle. UW is one of the largest colleges in the United States.

Eastlake

Neighborhood

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Eastlake is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, so named because of its location on the eastern shore of Lake Union. Its main thoroughfare is Eastlake Avenue E, which runs from Howell Street at the northeast corner of Downtown north over the University Bridge to the University District, where it connects to Roosevelt Way N.E. and 11th Avenue N.E.

Fritz Hedges Waterway Park

Category: recreation area
Location: King County, Puget Sound, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

47.65228° or 47° 39′ 8″ north

Longitude

-122.31616° or 122° 18′ 58″ west

Inception

2020

Named after

Frederick ‘Fritz’ Hedges

Open location code

84VVMM2M+WG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 296114452

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

Wikidata ID

Q105343857

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