Alki Beach Park

Alki Beach Park

Alki Beach Park is a convert|135.9|acre|ha|1|adj=on park located in the West Seattle neighborhood of Seattle, Washington that consists of the Elliott Bay beach between Alki Point and Duwamish Head. [ [http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/parkspaces/alki.htm Alki Beach Park] , Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed online 7 December 2007.] It has a half-mile (0.8 km) of beachfront, and was the first public salt-water bathing beach on the west coast of the United States. [Fleming, S. E. (1919), "Civics (supplement): Seattle King County", Seattle: Seattle Public Schools, p. 38.]

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External links

* [http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/parkspaces/alki.htm Alki Beach Park] , Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation.


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