The Volunteer Park Reservoir was taken out of service in April, 2013 by Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) for decommissioning testing and seismic evaluation. After careful study, SPU determined in January 2019 that the reservoir should remain part of Seattle’s drinking water distribution system for emergency response purposes. Volunteer Park Trust has prioritized the re-landscaping of...
The Seattle Asian Art Museum renovation is underway. Get updates on the renovation of the Seattle Asian Art Museum via SAM and BNBuilders.
Volunteer Park Trust will be participating in the final GiveBIG: a 24-hour, region-wide day of online giving presented by Seattle Foundation.
A dedicated and hardy crew of 15 volunteers at our monthly Second Saturday Work Party planted hundreds of daffodil and tulip bulbs to prepare the park garden beds for spring.
The Coalition is comprised of Volunteer Park Trust, the Friends of the Conservatory, and Seattle Asian Art Museum. Its mission is to make the infrastructure of the Park and its institutions more efficient and environmentally sound.
Thanks to a grant from the Pendleton & Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation, our first irrigation repair and extension project was completed in late 2015 near the Watertower. Gone are the leaky pipes at the south end of the park, and the long-dry garden beds now have water piped to them. As we add new...
In 2015, Volunteer Park Trust received a grant from Seattle Garden Club to restore a major bed in Volunteer Park that had been long overgrown and neglected. Now we are proud to announce the completion of the Seattle Garden Club Garden! The project location, southeast of the South Lily Pond, is a large landmarked planting...
In June of 2015, Volunteer Park Trust received a grant from the Peach Foundation to design and install the second part of the Peach Garden. The garden is located northwest of the north Lily Pond on the main concourse of Volunteer Park. Over the next two years, Volunteer Park Trust: Prepared scaled drawings of existing plants,...
