Woodland Park (Seattle) (Wikipedia) Woodland Park is a 90.9-acre (36.8 ha) public park in Seattle’s Phinney Ridge and Green Lake neighborhoods that originated as the estate of Guy C. Phinney, lumber mill owner and real estate developer. Phinney died in 1893, and in 1902, the Olmsted Brothers firm of Boston was hired to design the city’s parks, including Woodland Park.