Tour Stops
Bear Cage
Forest Park Zoo
Floral Hall
Forest Park Swim Center
Forest Park Recreation Center
Picnic Shelter/Sports Area
Rotary Centennial Playground
Picnic Area
Animal Farm
Lion’s Building/Spruce Hall/Fieldhouse
WPA Plantings, Forest Park
West Entrance, Forest Park
Historic Everett Fire Station No. 4
Bear Cage
Bear Cage (Forest Park)
The forest recovery sign roughly marks the location of Forest Park Zoo’s bear cage, built when bears were added to the zoo in 1919. Housed in a small, caged area, the bears occasionally escaped. A 1922 news story recounts the...
Forest Park Zoo
Forest Park Zoo
Everett’s Zoo is a large part of Forest Park history, lasting from 1914 to 1976. From a small start of three deer, two coyotes and two pelicans gifted to the city, the zoo grew to more than 200 animals at...
Built in 1939-1940 with funds provided in part by the WPA, Floral Hall is a legacy of federal public works in the 1930s Great Depression. Concept for the building came from members of the Snohomish County Gladiolus Society who convinced...
A proposed project of Everett City Councilman Carl Gipson (1924-2019), the Swim Center opened in 1975, on the site of the zoo’s Monkey House. It was built first with a removable roof that was replaced in the 1980s with a...
Everett Junior College Vocational Carpentry students built this structure in 1961 to serve as a concession stand, following closure of the Forest Park Inn which sold snacks and gifts. The Recreation Department provides information to visitors, organizes and conducts recreational...
The picnic shelter is another structure built by the Everett Junior College Vocational Carpentry class, this one completed in the 1960s. Here you will find tennis courts and horseshoe pits. Note a trail entrance east of the shelter. Follow the...
Everett Lions Club sponsored a project to build a children’s wading pool which was dedicated on June 8, 1932. At 75 by 45 feet in size, the pool was considered one of the largest and best constructed playgrounds in the...
The picnic area has a long and evolving history as a place for visitors to relax and meet with friends and family. But the area has also been used over the years for arts, music and other cultural events. Note...
In 1970 Forest Park began a petting zoo, the Animal Farm, where visitors of all ages could have a closeup experience with rabbits, pigs, ducks, goats, chickens and ponies, with parks staff supervising and offering educational programs. The Animal Farm’s...
All three of these modest buildings serve as community meeting halls, available for renting, each with an interesting history. Lions Hall was a repurposed stadium that had once been part of the Deaconess Children’s Home property, south of the park....
Plantings on the hillside south of Mukilteo Boulevard and below the ballfield have retained much of the park’s 1930s design. Trees planted by WPA workers included cedar and pine, with the addition of deciduous specimen trees, laurel and English Ivy....
West Entrance, Forest Park
E Mukilteo Blvd & Forest Park Dr.
Here you can look across to lower Forest Park, which is no longer open to the public. During the WPA years, development in this lower park included shrub and brush cleanup, tree planting and weirs along Pigeon Creek 1. Head...
Historic Everett Fire Station No. 4
701 E Mukilteo Boulevard
Point 14 Historic Everett Fire Station #4 701 E Mukilteo Blvd. During World War II Everett’s population grew rapidly with the arrival of military personnel at Paine Field and wartime workers at Everett Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., quickly stretching city...

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