Westcrest Park

It's a new year, so we felt it appropriate to write a new post. This being the second post of our blog (and first post about a Seattle dog park), we are already more successful than almost every single other blog ever started. We'll be sure to pat ourselves on the back for that later, but right now we want to introduce you to Westcrest Park. 

 
To visit the Viewpoint, go West. To visit the Off-leash area, go East. To visit the West Duwamish Greenbelt Trailhead, go straight to Hell.

Conveniently located between Highland Park (which is a neighborhood, not a park), the West Seattle Reservoir (a reservoir), and White Center (a place where people from Highland Park go to be murdered and dumped in the reservoir*), Westcrest Park is the most beautiful, peaceful, dog-friendly place where you'll ever fear for your life. No, really. As if its proximity to White Center isn't scary enough, every path you walk down feels like it could be your last.

Chewy, Molly, and Scout happily trot down Murder Lane towards their inevitable deaths.

The park is actually quite nice, if you can shake the horrifying thought that you could be bumped off at any given turn. There is a large play area with lots of obstacles for dogs to run around, over, through, or any number of other prepositions. There is also a long path around the park that you can walk down (IF YOU DARE). At the center of the circular pathway is an unkempt wooded area, excellent for dogs to explore. The best part of this wooded area is that it's almost entirely fenced in, save for a few open spots. This means that sometimes you'll see your dogs on the pathway in front of you, but if you are looking over your shoulder to make sure you're not being followed, your dogs may suddenly and inexplicably be on the other side of the fence when you look back. It's disconcerting at times, but dogs love to confuse their owners when they're at dog parks**.

 The dogs have scaled the fence and are making a break for it.

If your dogs are anything like ours, they love water. Unfortunately Westcrest Park has no open water for dogs to jump in. They do, however, offer a selection of fine mud puddles where only the most disobedient dogs dare venture. After your dog has a good roll in the mud and laughs maniacally, you’ll realize you’re feeling just as murderous as the rest of the park’s patrons. 

 

 Olivia Chewton-John loves water almost as much as other dogs love him.

Naturally, this made Katie very happy when she had to clean him off.

 We think that Chew Barrymore jumped into the mud puddle knowing that he'd be hosed down and would get even wetter. He really thinks ahead.

 

We wandered Westcrest for a few hours, our sense of dread ever-increasing, until we decided that we had pressed our luck for long enough and every minute that we stayed we were a minute closer to our own demises (and we needed Starbucks). There was a really nice view, though.

 

A view of Seattle across from the White Center Body Dumping Grounds, AKA the West Seattle Reservoir.

But for every beautiful view, we also spotted something like this:

Only a murderer would do something so horrible.***

We were too busy searching for potential murderers that we didn't even bother rating this park. We just got the hell out of there before something awful happened.

 

Please enjoy a humorous photo of us searching for murderers.

*This is 100% unsubstantiated information.
**This is 100% unsubstantiated information.
***This is 99.97% unsubstantiated information.