Fauntleroy is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of Seattle , Washington . Part of West Seattle and situated on Puget Sound 's Fauntleroy Cove (into which Fauntleroy Creek flows from its source in Fauntleroy Park ), it faces Vashon Island , Blake Island , and the Kitsap Peninsula to the west. On sunny days, many locations in the neighborhood offer views of the Olympic Mountains , which are about 40 miles (64 km) to the west. The neighborhood adjoins Lincoln Park to the north, Fauntlee Hills to the east, and Arbor Heights to the south. Within Fauntleroy is an area known as Endolyne (the "end of the line" of the Fauntleroy Park streetcar route in the early 1900s). Fauntleroy is home to an eponymous Washington State Ferries terminal, providing service to Vashon Island and Southworth .
6-461: Fauntleroy Park is a 32.9-acre (13.3 ha) park in the Fauntleroy neighborhood of Seattle , Washington . Fauntleroy Creek begins here. Nearby Lincoln Park was called Fauntleroy Park until 1922. The steep slopes that make up over 30% of the heavily wooded park rendered the land unbuildable, saving this property from the development of the adjacent neighborhood that began in the first decade of
12-453: Is not a site for more aggressive trail use such as mountain biking, and it lacks facilities for organized sports. A local organization, the Friends of Fauntleroy Park founded in 1996, advocates for the park, with a focus on preservation and restoration of the park as a natural area, public education and use, and stewardship. Two other organizations focus on the watershed that has its headwaters in
18-496: The 20th century and continued for more than half a century. The city acquired the land for a park in 1971. Unlike many Seattle parks, much of Fauntleroy Park remains essentially native habitat, a forest remnant undergoing natural succession. 18 acres of the park consists of hardwood and riparian forest ; there are about 10 acres of conifer and mixed forests and approximately 5 acres of wetlands . Volunteers have been removing non-native weeds since 1996. Although within city limits,
24-771: The cove, itself named by one Lt. George Davidson of the U. S. Coast Survey in 1857 in honor of the family of his fiancée, Ellinor Fauntleroy of Indiana. The development of Fauntleroy began in 1905. Fauntleroy's history was chronicled by Roy Morse and Richard Brown in Fauntleroy Legacy (1989) and by Clay Eals in West Side Story ( West Seattle Herald , 1987). Central to the Fauntleroy neighborhood are Fauntleroy Church ( United Church of Christ ), Fauntleroy YMCA , and The Hall at Fauntleroy (the closed Fauntleroy School), which now houses Fauntleroy Children's Center ( childcare );
30-474: The park is a natural green space and wildlife habitat including the headwaters of a historically fish-bearing stream, Fauntleroy Creek, rather than an urban park. The stream was once home to cutthroat trout ; these are no longer found there, but local schoolchildren have restored stream habitat and stocked the stream with Coho salmon . Human activities there are generally limited to low-impact recreation such as walking, birdwatching and other observing of nature; it
36-668: The park: Friends of Fauntleroy Creek, established 1989, and the Fauntleroy Creek Watershed Council, established 2001. The United Church of Christ Fauntleroy Church, adjacent to the park is listed as "Fauntleroy Community Church and YMCA" is a Seattle landmark . Fauntleroy, Seattle Fauntleroy Way runs into the West Seattle Bridge , which runs across the Duwamish Waterway ( Duwamish River ). The neighborhood, creek, and park all take their name from
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