Lincoln Park, Park in West Seattle, Seattle, United States

Lincoln Park is a 135-acre park in West Seattle on Puget Sound, adjacent to Fauntleroy. It occupies the headland of Williams Point, where a steep bluff drops about 100 feet to a saltwater shoreline of dark grey pebbles and coarse sand strewn with pale driftwood logs. Forest trails, a paved beach walkway, athletic fields, picnic shelters and the heated saltwater Colman Pool fill the upland.

Seattle approved buying the headland called Williams Point in 1922, following a 1908 recommendation by the Olmsted Brothers, who called it Williams Point Park; the city first named it Fauntleroy Park and later renamed it for Abraham Lincoln. The Olmsted firm was never commissioned to plan it, so it was developed without a design vision. In 1925 the city built a dirt-sided pool over a natural lagoon at Point Williams, filled by a wood sluice gate at high tide and drained at low tide.

The Duwamish name for the headland, CHuXáydoos, means "Tight Bluff" and refers to the dense plant growth. Since 2023 a 15-foot wooden troll, Bruun Idun, by Danish artist Thomas Dambo, stands in the park, one of the Northwest Trolls: Way of the Bird King. Birders log more than 150 species here, and a grove of rare Dawn Redwoods was planted in 2014.

The beach is reached by a paved walkway that runs along the shoreline below a bluff dropping about 100 feet from the upland forest. The 135-acre park sits beside Puget Sound in West Seattle, next to the Fauntleroy neighborhood. Expect driftwood and broken shells along the pebble beach, and a grassy bank bordering it on the landward side.

A 15-foot wooden troll named Bruun Idun, carved by Danish artist Thomas Dambo, was installed in the park in 2023 as part of the Northwest Trolls: Way of the Bird King project. It stands among the forest trails above the beach, where driftwood logs pile along the Puget Sound shoreline.