Happy New Year from your Friends of Waterfront Park! Here’s to another year together on Seattle's shoreline. 📸 Erik Holsather

🏆 Waterfront Park made Fast Company’s 4 Best Waterfront Parks of 2025 list—and we’re going into the new year on a high! Come check out the place everyone’s falling for: https://www.fastcompany.com/91458276/best-waterfront-parks-2025 #SeattleWaterfront #DowntownSeattle

“Our front yard and our backyard.” Seattle local and neighbor Lorena reflects on moving back downtown, strolling to the water without crossing a freeway, and watching her toddler play with kids from all over the world: https://bit.ly/3KQBj9W #SeattleWaterfront #DowntownSeattle

You don’t have to go far to end 2025 somewhere special. A reminder that some of the best places to explore are right in our backyard. 📖 Rediscover WA’s world‑class gems, from Waterfront Park to the Gorge: https://bit.ly/49fVK8n #DowntownSeattle #2025Recap #WaterfrontParkSeattle

Proof that Waterfront Park doesn’t clock out. 📸 Park Experience team

Posada Navideña, in moments. ✨ Thank you to our friends at Aquí Mercado for filling Pier 66 with music, tradition, and so much heart and to @portofseattle.bsky.social for this wonderful space. 💙

Wow, Seattle and Waterfront Park are featured in this national roundup of cities blending nature into everyday life! Worth a read if you love this place as much as we do: https://bit.ly/44O9RA2

Gray isn’t a flaw...it’s part of the plan. @seattleaquarium.bsky.social's Ocean Pavilion is crafted to age like the shoreline it faces, blending sustainably sourced wood with intentional design: https://bit.ly/48eR4jM #SeattleWaterfront #UrbanDesign

On Native American Heritage Day, we celebrate the vibrant cultures, traditions, and ongoing contributions of the Coast Salish peoples across this region. In our work, we'll continue to listen, learn, and uplift the communities whose homelands we gather on every day. 📷 Andy Shepard, Jo Cosme

Waterfront Park was packed with joy this year—thousands dancing, laughing, and proving what public spaces can do when community leads. As we head into giving season, we’re sharing how your support keeps that energy alive all year long: https://bit.ly/4pxY7K8

Friends of Waterfront Park is stepping into a new era of stewardship. Honoring the leadership that got us here, welcoming new board co-chairs, and launching a five-year strategic plan that centers community, care, and connection across 20-acres of this park, read what's next: https://bit.ly/48fbXKb

We love to see Friends collaborator Stevie Shao bringing her magic to Secondhand Sunday with Evergreen Goodwill. If you needed a sign to thrift instead of sprint for a sale—this tote is it. 🔗 https://seattlemag.com/news/totes-secondhand/

And Waterfront Park is now one reason to enjoy this city of ours!

Our first-ever Dinner with Friends was a powerful moment! Our community showed up to usher in a new chapter for Friends of Waterfront Park: fully managing and fundraising for this 20-acre public space. Thank you for being part of it. 📸 Brandon Patoc.

HNTB’s blog “Reviving a Waterfront, Reconnecting a City,” beautifully captures what makes Seattle’s new Waterfront Park so special. It’s a behind the scenes look of one of Seattle’s most ambitious public projects in a century—and the result is nothing short of breathtaking: https://bit.ly/3K02JJL

Friends of Waterfront Park has completed its $170 million Campaign for Waterfront Park—the largest philanthropic effort for public space in our city’s history. Our work continues: to keep the waterfront thriving as a place for everyone. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hUxhJo

Fifteen years in the making, Waterfront Park is changing the face and the heart of downtown Seattle. 💫 As Bloomberg Citylab writes, it’s more than a park: it’s a bridge between city and sea, past and future: https://bloom.bg/4p0i7EZ

The State of Washington collaborated with five different tribes to design and install a collection of columns at Pioneer Square Habitat Beach. This artwork titled Stone Family by yulout, a Muckleshoot Indian Tribe elder. Photo by Jo Cosme. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

Mother Nature’s favorite city? We think so. 🌲💚 From our reimagined Waterfront Park to green hotels and stunning scenic drives, Seattle’s connection to nature shines in this Global Traveller feature: https://bit.ly/47VPkM0

Waterfront Park is an incredible display of what excellent urban, public spaces can be! 💫 Congratulations, @seattleparksandrec.bsky.social and City of Seattle! parkways.seattle.gov/2025/10/27/s...

🥁💛 We’re grateful to Big World Breaks and Aaron Walker-Loud for bringing Beat Our Future to the waterfront and filling the park with the sound of connection: https://lnkd.in/gesubvz9 #SeattleWaterfront #DowntownSeattle #CommunityPartnerships

Huge turnout braved the rain to celebrate the new E Marginal Way bike lanes this morning with @bestsidecycling.com & @seattlebikeblog.com! Ride Info: www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/10/16/w...

Just another day in paradise with #Seattle sunshine. ☔ 📸 Jo Cosme. #OverlookWalk #DowntownSeattle

🎃 We're bringing you much Frights & Delights next Friday, October 31, including a fun BINGO activity! Join us at Seneca & Alaskan Way to celebrate Halloween along the waterfront, where trick‑or‑treating, family fun, and a little bit of spooky magic await: https://bit.ly/4no4WN0

Peek beneath Overlook Walk to meet Ann Hamilton’s Guests—forty-two illuminated gentle giants that sway, shimmer, and greet the city in a quiet dance of light and color. More about the project: https://bit.ly/3WinnaJ #SeattleArt #SeattleWaterfront

Public art at Seattle’s reimagined waterfront tells a deeper story, one that bridges the city’s past and future. Among the new installations is a carving of Chief Sealth and his mother, part of a collection that honors Indigenous artists and history. @waterfrontparksea.bsky.social

Visit Seattle debuted a new Community Leader of the Year award, recognizing our President & CEO Joy Shigaki as its very first recipient. 🌊💛 This honor celebrates Joy’s work to make Waterfront Park a place where everyone belongs and collaboration with countless partners: https://bit.ly/4qdQ71U

🎉 Big congratulations to our President & CEO, Joy Shigaki (she/her)! Named one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s 100 Executives Shaping the Puget Sound Region, Joy is being recognized for her leadership in shaping a Waterfront Park that connects our city to the shoreline: https://bit.ly/4o4hbQ1

More than a century ago, the SS Dix sank in Elliott Bay… but some say it never really left. From phantom lights to whispers on the wind, Seattle’s waters still tell the tale. Dive into the haunting from Seattle's Tall Ship: https://seattlesailingship.com/seattle-ghost-stories-ss-dix/

Great reminder from our friends at Visit Seattle: Explore our city from every angle by ferry, light rail, bike, or even seaplane. Taking it in through its many modes of transportation is half the adventure: https://visitseattle.org/blog/exploring-seattles-surroundings-without-a-car/

Every month, KEXP DJ Eva Walker writes a letter to her daughter to share wisdom learned from her experiences—and her mistakes. She's written about everything from farting to accidentally becoming a satanist. Here, she tells us about performing with her band, The Black Tones, in an Oklahoma prison.

Our board chair Maggie Walker has led the charge to transform our shoreline into a vibrant, inclusive public space that it is today. From launching our $170M campaign during the pandemic to uniting key decision makers, her leadership is a visionary blueprint in civic impact: https://bit.ly/4nXALga

#DowntownSeattle is buzzing again. 📊 Nearly 3.2M visitors in August 🏨 Hotel stays fully recovered 🏠 21% more residents downtown than pre-pandemic Seattle’s downtown future? More diverse, more resilient, more alive: https://bit.ly/3Iqv1wu

This weekend, take a moment to admire artwork with us. Thanks to the Office of Arts & Culture Seattle, the Civic Art Collection has grown since 1973 to include hundreds of public artworks and thousands of portable works, all commissioned through a community-centered process.: https://bit.ly/48lNEMH

Couldn’t be there? Or just want to feel it again? 💚✨ Rewatch the ribbon cutting that marked the official opening of Seattle’s new Waterfront Park — a once-in-a-generation milestone: https://bit.ly/46lSHd9

From gallery openings to dance performances to artist talks, Art + Culture Week is back, Saturday, Sept 20–27! 🎭🖼️ We’re so excited to support our creative community and celebrate all the ways art connects us. Come join in: https://bit.ly/46GiLkw! #ACW2025 #CelebrateCreativity

🗒️ Start your morning with coffee by the marina, wander the trail, say hi to the otters, grab chowder by the pier, and end your day with flowers and flying fish at Pike Place. The waterfront really is Seattle at its best: https://bit.ly/4mmyXMC #SeattleWaterfront #ThingsToDoInSeattle

Seattle, decades of vision brought us here. 💙 What was once the Alaskan Way Viaduct is now 20 acres of Waterfront Park—for everyone. Friends of Waterfront Park is proud to help steward this space, keeping it vibrant and welcoming for generations alongside Seattle Center and our community.

Need inspiration to create our Waterfront Park Grand Opening Celebration schedule? @kiro7seattle.bsky.social has you covered: https://bit.ly/3K8C3WT

#Vashon residents, King County Water Taxi is providing a special service to get you to and from our Waterfront Park Grand Opening Celebration. ⛴️ Check out Metro's blog for the details: https://bit.ly/4g4GspG

Big thanks to Secret Seattle for shining a spotlight on the Grand Opening Celebration of Seattle’s new 20-acre Waterfront Park! 🎉 Their latest feature dives into everything happening on Sept. 6 from parades and live music to food trucks, beer garden, and more: https://bit.ly/46in7y0

Big thanks to the King County Parks team for joining our philanthropy team on a tour through Waterfront Park! We’re celebrating what’s possible when community, stewardship, and public space come together. 🌊🌳 #SeattleWaterfront #SeattleParks #KingCountyParks

If you are anywhere near Seattle next Saturday-- the opening of this park promises to be one of Seattle's cultural events for some time to come-- Click the image to read the preview/schedule-- @waterfrontparksea.bsky.social #SeattleMusic #SeattleArt #SeattleDance #SeattleTheater #PictureThisPost

Pick up a copy of the Sunday The Seattle Times to get a physical Grand Opening Celebration Guide! Copies will also be available on event day next Saturday. Or if you're as excited as we are and want to plan ahead, here is a digital version: https://bit.ly/4g4pPuv Meet you at Waterfront Park!

🚍✨ On your daily route or city commute, a little waterfront inspiration is joining you along the way. #SeattleWaterfront #KingCountyMetro #SeattleTransportation

The new Waterfront Park's grand opening celebration is just eight days away. Take a tour with us through downtown's reimagined front porch - it's incredible. Head to @waterfrontparksea.bsky.social for Sept. 6 celebration details. #SeattleWaterfront #SeattleParks #DowntownSeattle

Check out Secret Seattle's spotlight on the Waterfront Park Grand Opening Celebration: https://secretseattle.co/seattle-waterfront-park-opening/ #SecretSeattle #SeattleWaterfront

A park for everyone, every day. 🌊💙 From quiet moments to big celebrations, Waterfront Park is made for connection, joy, and memory-making. Made for moments like these—memories begin here. Meet us at Waterfront Park: waterfrontparkseattle.org/grand-opening/ #SeattleWaterfront #SeattleParks

Africatown Soul on the Water filled the park with music, dance, and community joy last week. Huge thanks to Africatown Community Land Trust for bringing so much soul to the shoreline. 💛

Countdown is on: 2 weeks until Seattle’s biggest waterfront party! 🎉 Waterfront Park’s Grand Opening Celebration is happening on Saturday, Sept 6 with 100+ artists, community partners, and waterfront neighbors making over 60 performances & experiences possible all day long: https://bit.ly/4lEIePy