Washington Trails Association
- Discovery Park Beach and Highlands Loop (wta.org)
Hike through the relatively uncrowded southeast corner of the park, head up to the South Meadow for the views, then get down to the beaches and enjoy a close-up view of the West Point Lighthouse. You’ll come back up to the park highlands by a different route for a close look at old buildings in the Fort Lawton Historic District.
- Fort Lawton (Wikipedia)
Fort Lawton was a United States Army post located in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle, Washington overlooking Puget Sound. In 1973 a large majority of the property, 534 acres of Fort Lawton, was given to the city of Seattle and dedicated as Discovery Park. Both the fort and the nearby residential neighborhood of Lawton Wood are named after Major General Henry Ware Lawton.