Urban Nature Guide

Parks, Farms, Gardens, and Resources in the Greater Seattle Area

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Community Additions

Did we miss your favorite natural area or community garden? Add to our list of Community Additions and help keep this guide as a living resource!

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Why is this important?
Access to green space, nature, and a healthy environment is not equitable. Via redlining and racially restrictive covenants, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, are less likely to have access to green space close to their homes and are more likely to bear the negative health impacts of pollution. In Seattle, "97% of Seattle residents live within a 10-minute walk from a park or public space [but], those spaces are not equally managed and funded" (Seattle Parks Foundation)We hope that this guide will serve as a resource for people to use to connect with nature through multiple means to push back against this system of oppression, help community members to learn, and to build community around a shared appreciation for the natural world. Further, we hope that community members will add to this guide to help maintain it as living documentation of all the ways that our community gets outside.

• Segregated Seattle
• Equity in Public Spaces
• Pollution and Redlining

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YMCA Earth Service Corps is a program of Camping & Outdoor Leadership, a branch
of the YMCA of Greater Seattle