One of the most popular parks in the city is Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill. We visited Volunteer Park the first time we came to Seattle, but hadn't been back until last week. It's a fairly small park compared to the numerous large parks in the city, but it's still a good place to go. A lot of the other parks are basically nature reserves, so they have unpaved trails and there has been little human interference into the types of plants growing. However, Volunteer Park has plenty of grass and not nearly as many trees as you'll find outside the city. Still, the trees, plants, and flowers are so varied that they make it a really pleasant place to walk. There also some really old and large trees there. Anyway, we really enjoyed our walk there and I look forward to returning.