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A waterfront park on Budd Bay in downtown Olympia, with a long boardwalk, moorage, and gathering spaces.
217 Thurston Ave NW, Olympia, WA · Olympia, WA
Percival Landing is one of Olympia's three waterfront parks, sitting on the east side of Budd Bay near the southern tip of Puget Sound. It is a common gathering spot in the downtown core and hosts social events and public celebrations. The park includes a boardwalk stretching along the shoreline between the Fourth Avenue Bridge and Thurston Avenue, plus boat moorage, a Harbor House, picnic areas, a playground, public art, and showers for moorage customers. It is named for an old commercial steamship wharf that was a known maritime landmark in the Pacific Northwest. The park was built in phases, starting in 1978, and its oldest section was rebuilt in 2010 with new pavilions and a bathhouse. Petroleum contamination found during that work was cleaned up under a city plan.
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