Carkeek Park

This guide to Carkeek Park in Seattle begins with Andrew Piper standing in the ashes of his candy factory after the Great Fire of 1889, then walking north to start over with an orchard on the creek that now bears his name. It follows the stream's later ruin, as pollution and development silenced the chum salmon runs for fifty years, and the volunteers and biologists who began tearing out culverts and replanting banks in 1979. Stand at the footbridge and the guide leaves you watching the water for a swim it took generations, and one ruined candy factory, to make possible again.