If you are looking for either a nice wide dirt forest road, or some wooden narrow trails you can jog on both when visiting the Ravenna Park, a half mile wooded ravine which connects two picnic areas just north of the University District of Seattle. A popular destination for runners and walkers, the park is named after an Italian seacoast town famous for its pine trees, where poets, warriors, and statesmen once strolled in a state of euphoria similar to the one W. W. Beck, the realtor who bought the land in 1887, experienced when wandering among these trails.
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