Community Centers - Parks

Community Centers are a vital part of Seattle's recreation system, with 26 locations citywide. We offer free and low-cost recreation programs open to the public, drop-in community gathering spaces, room rentals, preschool, licensed childcare, summer day camps, and teen late night. Offerings vary by location and season.

Offerings and hours vary by location and season. Visit your local Community Center page for current offerings.

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Alphabetical list of Community Centers

Alki Community Center

Alki Community Center is used only for Preschool and Licensed Childcare programs.

Ballard Community Center

Ballard Community Center blends well into the historic Ballard neighborhood, within walking distance of the Ballard Locks and the shops and restaurants on Market Street. Most people recognize the building from its large boat structure, which is part of the design of the children's play area in the front of the center. The lobby and reception area get excellent natural light in the daytime. Throughout the facility are many photos of the staff and community members who have frequented the center over the years.

Bitter Lake Community Center

Bitter Lake Community Center is situated on the edge of small lake and Bitter Lake Playfield in the northwest sector of Seattle. The neighborhood is ethnically diverse with large immigrant and senior populations.

Delridge Community Center

Delridge Community Center serves everyone from preschoolers to seniors.Inside, you'll find a multipurpose room, a kitchen, a fitness room, and a full-sized basketball gymnasium and three shower rooms. Outdoors, there’s a playground, an open grassy park area, a skate park, tennis and pickleball courts, a summer wading pool, and a multi-sport synthetic turf athletic field.

Garfield Community Center

Garfield Community Center is located on the Garfield Campus. The Campus offers tennis courts, Medgar Evers Swimming Pool, Garfield Teen Life Center, Garfield High School, baseball fields and landscaped lawn with lots of trees. In front of the main entrance there is a plaza with benches and a kid's play area with climbing equipment and swings next to our community garden

Green Lake Community Center

Green Lake Community Center is situated on the east side of Seattle's enormously popular Green Lake Park. The park is surrounded by a vibrant residential and business district, with a library, restaurants, coffee shops and shopping. The biggest attraction to the area is the lake itself, drawing thousands of people a day to jog, walk or wheel around the 2.8-mile path that encircles the body of water. Other popular activities include renting kayaks and other kinds of water craft, and playing in one of the many sports leagues that use the park.

Hiawatha Community Center

Historic community center designed by the Olmsted Brothers and renovated in 2026. Building contains a gymnasium, auditorium, and smaller reservable rooms.

High Point Community Center

Located in West Seattle adjacent to the Walt Hundley Playfield and the High Point residential neighborhood.

International District/Chinatown Community Center

The International District/Chinatown Community Center is located on the southern edge of Seattle's historic and ethnically diverse Chinatown International District. The center is next door to the International District/Chinatown Branch of the Seattle Public Library, near several prominent social service agencies, restaurants and other retail shops.

Jefferson Community Center

Jefferson Community Center is in the heart of Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood just minutes from downtown in the recently expanded and renovated Jefferson Park. This destination park boasts a large play area, spraypark, zip lines, tennis courts, skate park, cricket pitch, sportsfields, lawn bowling green, the oldest golf course in Seattle and a great ¾-mile walking path. Nearby is a fire station, Mercer Middle School and Seattle Parks and Recreation horticulture buildings.

Lake City Community Center

Closed due to fire damage, and redevelopment plans are underway. Lake City Community Center forms a hub with the Lake City Library branch and Albert Davis Park.

Laurelhurst Community Center

Located at the top of a steep hill in the midst of the Laurelhurst residential neighborhood, offering great views of Lake Washington and in close proximity to Children's Hospital, University Village, Magnuson Park and the University of Washington.

Loyal Heights Community Center

Loyal Heights Community Center is in the heart of the Loyal Heights neighborhood in northwest Seattle. Loyal Heights has a large green space and a small play area on the main part of the campus. Below the center to the south is a lighted synthetic athletic field that is used for baseball, football, lacrosse, soccer, flag football and large special events. Loyal Heights is near two elementary schools and one middle school.

Magnolia Community Center

Fully renovated in 2025, the multi-story center is connected to Catherine Blaine K-8 with new gymnasium, multipurpose rooms, and childcare programs.

Magnuson Community Center

Magnuson Community Center is notable for its unique location inside Magnuson Park, a former U.S. naval air station that is now Seattle's second largest park at 350 acres. The park has more than 10 ballfields, nearly 40 acres of wetlands, a large play area, dog off-leash area, a swimming beach and boat launch on Lake Washington, historic district, and trails and roads connecting everything. To the south of the community center is Solid Ground Housing which serves more than 250 formerly homeless residents in permanent and transitional housing.

Meadowbrook Community Center

Meadowbrook Community Center is an oasis for recreation, serving a very diverse section of northeast Seattle, just south of the Lake City neighborhood. Meadowbrook Community Center and the adjacent Meadowbrook Pool are neighbors with Nathan Hale High School and Jane Addams Middle School.

Miller Community Center

Built in 1998, the two-story community center is set into a hill with the main entrance on the second floor, welcoming visitors with an attractive well-lit foyer. The second floor has a small seating area, a teen room, small meeting room and offices. The first floor is accessible by a staircase and an elevator and features a multipurpose room with a large commercial-grade kitchen, tot play room, offices and a full-size gym. Miller Community Center was originally housed in the Meany Middle School Annex.

Montlake Community Center

Montlake Community Center is located on Portage Bay south of the University of Washington and SR-520, just west of the Washington Park Arboretum.

Northgate Community Center

Northgate Community Center provides a respite from the commotion of the surrounding neighborhood. The center shares a parking lot with the Northgate Library.

Queen Anne Community Center

On the top of Queen Anne Hill, Queen Anne Community Center is a hub of fun, learning, recreation and leisure for people of all ages. This is a place that fosters a true sense of community as many neighborhood residents are involved in the center as volunteers, coaches, instructors and participants. Built in 1950, the two-story facility consists of a gym, pottery room, teen room, preschool room, senior room, before- and after-school rooms, weight room, meeting rooms, office space, lobby area, locker rooms, and a small kitchen (upstairs) as well as a medium-sized kitchen (downstairs).

Rainier Beach Community Center

The community center and pool were remodeled in 2013. Certified as LEED Gold for its sustainable environmental design, the modern 46,500-square-foot building has one story and features natural lighting through its many windows. The reception/front desk area handles all community center and pool transactions. The outdoor space features metal benches and wood seats, permanent chess boards on some of the tables and a children's play area. On the south side of the building community groups use a public plaza to host public events throughout the year. Nearby are a library, South Shore School and a light rail station.

Rainier Community Center

Built in 1996, the building is the second largest community center in the state, and includes two full-sized gyms, a large lobby, multipurpose room with commercial grade kitchen, a fitness room and a number of smaller rooms that are used for meetings, classes and programs. The east wall of that lobby has distinctive artwork created by artist Marita Dingus and youth from the center.

Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center

Community Center in northeast Seattle, with gym, reservable rooms, and drop-in and registration-based programs. Licensed childcare available off site.

South Park Community Center

Built in the late 1980s and remodeled in 2026, the facility is a modern adobe-style building with a vaulted ceiling in the lobby and several large windows that look out onto a full-size turf playfield. Additional outdoor amenities include a playground, spraypark, and off leash dog park.

Van Asselt Community Center

Van Asselt Community Center boasts a diverse youth/teen population and programming that serves an ethnically diverse community, from preschool-aged children to seniors. The center is situated at the edge of the New Holly neighborhood, which primarily consists of housing, but also includes a branch of Seattle Public Library, satellite campus of South Seattle Community College, and other community buildings.

Yesler Community Center

Yesler Community Center, located in the heat of the Yesler Terrace housing neighborhood, serves people from a multitude of world cultures, including a number of different East African communities. In the near future, potential customers will include residents of new apartments being developed nearby by Vulcan Properties. The community center also draws participants from the First Hill neighborhood to the north, which includes Harborview Hospital, and downtown Seattle, located west and down the hill from the center.