TACOMA has 800 acres of beautiful parks. Point Defiance Park occupies the
northerly extremity of the peninsula on which TACOMA is built. It has
about three miles of shore line on the Sound and most of it is covered
with giant fir. It is a park of unusual natural beauties and attractions.
Wright Park is a garden, twenty-eight acres in extent in the heart of the
city, with a great variety of shrubs, trees and flowers.