Me-Kwa-Mooks Park

View of the park looking out toward Puget Sound

Me-Kwa-Mooks Park is a 20.2-acre (82,000 m²) public park located in the West Seattle neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA. Me-Kwa-Mooks, meaning "shaped like a bear's head" and pronounced sbuh-KWAH-buks in Nisqually, was what the Duwamish tribe called the West Seattle peninsula when the first European-American settlers landed at Alki in 1851.

Today's Me-Kwa-Mooks Park is land that was acquired by the Parks Department in 1971. The site was originally the homestead of the pioneers Ferdinand and Emma Schmitz. When all the Schmitz family died it became city land.

In 1994, 4th and 5th graders from Pathfinder K-8 School helped make Me-Kwa-Mooks a park. In 2009, Pathfinder moved to Cooper Elementary School, a 10-year-old building on the other side of West Seattle, so they could no longer work on the park.

Me-Kwa-Mooks Park is across the street from the Emma Schmitz Memorial Overlook and immediately south of Me-Kwa-Mooks Natural Area. Picnic tables are set up on the lawn at the park entry (on Beach Dr. SW between SW Genesee and SW Oregon St.). Most of the park stretches up the hillside and extends north and farther south on land that is largely undeveloped. The dense trees provide habitat for many birds, including screech owls.

Immediately across the street, below Emma Schmitz Memorial Overlook, is a rocky beach that is accessible during low tide. The tidepools here are rich in limpets, lumpsuckers, blennies, chitons, nudibranches, sea stars, sea slugs, sea cucumbers, hermit crabs and an array of other tidepool dwellers.

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Protected Areas of Seattle

Federal

National Parks	Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Wing Luke Museum (affiliated)

City parks and
preserves

Greater than 50 acres (20 ha)	Alki Beach Camp Long Carkeek Discovery Genesee Golden Gardens Green Lake Interlaken Jackson Jefferson Lake Washington Boulevard Lincoln Magnolia Tidelands Magnuson Puget Schmitz Seattle Center Seward Westcrest West Seattle Golf Course Woodland

10–50 acres (4.0–20.2 ha)	Brighton Playfield Cheasty Boulevard South Colman Condon Way Centerstrip Dahl Playfield Emma Schmitz Memorial Overlook Fauntleroy Frink Garfield Gas Works Hamilton Viewpoint Herring's House Park (Tualtwx) Hiawatha Interbay Golf Kinnear Lakeridge Lawton Leschi Longfellow Creek Madrona Magnolia Magnolia Playfield Maple Leaf Reservoir Maple Wood Playfield Matthews Beach Meadowbrook Playfield Me-Kwa-Mooks Montlake Playfield Mount Baker Northacres Open Water Park Pigeon Point Pritchard Island Beach Queen Anne Boulevard Ravenna Park Riverview Playfield Roxhill Sam Smith Soundview Playfield Stan Sayres Memorial Volunteer Walt Hundley Playfield West Seattle Stadium

0.02–10 acres (0.0081–4.0469 ha)	Alvin Larkins Beer Sheva Bell Street Bryant Playground Cal Anderson Cascade Playground Cowen City Hall Commodore Denny Denny-Blaine East Montlake Fairview Freeway Fremont Peak Hing Hay Home of the Good Shepherd I-5 Colonnade Jack Block Jimi Hendrix Kerry Kiwanis Ravine Kobe Terrace Lake People Lake Union Lakeview Louisa Boren Madison Marshall Park McCurdy Meridian Playground Myrtle Edwards Nora's Woods North Passage Point Northacres Occidental Olympic Sculpture Park Oxbow Parsons Gardens Peace Rizal Roanoke Schmitz Boulevard South Passage Point Terry Pettus Park Tilikum Place Union Bay Natural Area Victor Steinbrueck Viretta Waterfront West Montlake Westlake

Under 0.02 acres (0.0081 ha)	Boylston Place Lakeview Place McGraw Square Westlake Square

Other

Farms, gardens and P-Patches	Beacon Food Forest Danny Woo International District Community Garden Interbay P-Patch Marra Farm Picardo Farm

Green belts	St. Mark's Greenbelt SW Queen Anne Greenbelt The Jungle West Duwamish Greenbelt

Zoos and aquariums	Seattle Aquarium Woodland Park Zoo

Arboretums and botanical gardens	Carl S. English Jr. Botanical Gardens Kubota Garden Piper Orchard Seattle Chinese Garden Seattle Japanese Garden South Seattle Community College Arboretum Volunteer Park Conservatory Washington Park Arboretum

Landscape architecture	Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition Olmsted parks

Bicycle trails	Burke-Gilman Trail Chief Sealth Trail

Seattle Parks and Recreation • List of parks in Seattle

Coordinates: 47°33′43.4″N 122°24′5.4″W / 47.562056°N 122.401500°W / 47.562056; -122.401500

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