Hillwood Park Improvements Will Begin in the Fall of 2025

Due to complex drainage challenges within the park, construction may not begin until November unless permits are issued prior to then.

From the City of Shoreline Website:

“The park is currently undergoing design development and permitting. Our new anticipated construction date is fall 2025.

Voter approved improvements at Hillwood Park will include the following:”

  • Frontage improvements

  • Walkways

  • Loop path

  • Multi-sport court

  • Play area 

  • Spray park

  • Small picnic shelter

  • Benches

  • Bike rack

  • Plantings

Hillwood Neighborhood can celebrate the addition of a second street access from 8th NW to our park (the narrow extension on the left side of the plan below) that will also include a paved path through what was previously private property. This purchase was not funded through the Prop 1 of 2022, but primarily through North King County’s Select Parks, Recreation and Open Space investment funds. Hillwood can also look forward to the North King County’s second open land purchase within Hillwood Neighborhood of the future Hemlock Park (temporarily named) property west of the Park & Ride lot at N. 192 nd and Aurora Ave. N.

Please return to this page soon to read about the habitat restoration team and their planned work parties. Volunteers will be needed and welcomed! HNA board member Rachel Turben will co-lead this ambitious project.

History of the Hillwood Park Property

1891 - John W. Baker purchases 160 acres of land in “Township 26” from the U.S. Land Patent Office for $1.25 per acre. Hillwood Park currently occupies 22 acres of this property.

1912 - A hand drawn map of the as-yet unoccupied land clearly shows the creek that still runs through this property that will become today’s Hillwood Creek Wetland Meadow.

1919 - Home built on 2.28 acre land parcel at 193rd and 3rd NW. The land use now consists of nursery stock, fruit trees, and an acre of pasture with residence, barn, and outbuildings.

1926-1939 - Six platted properties are now owned and will become, either in full or in part, Hillwood Park. These were most likely used as subsistence farms.

1934 - Tax records show continued use of 1.14 acres of the property being utilized as fruit tree orchards and pasture with a barn and outbuildings.

1953 - “Hillwood Terrace” Division located between N 191st and N 193rd is named and platted. 

1954 - Hillwood School named by the Shoreline School District.

1961 - King County completes purchase of 22 acres of land for a joint County/School-owned park.

1977 - Hillwood Park inventoried by King County Parks

1997 - City of Shoreline (incorporated in 1995) takes over administration of parks from King County

"Cherry Blossoms in Hillwood," Paul Lewing, acrylic on canvas, 16”x24”

Photos above and below show the extension property’s diversity of open space and native trees. 

Rachel Turben, "Laser-cut Hillwood Logo Fern + Bird", 5"x5"