Hartman Park | 17301 Northeast 104th Street | Redmond, WA 98052

The course at Hartman is like any other standard cross country course- 5,000 meters, or about 3.1 miles. Much of the course winds through a changing forest, which is succeeding out of a stage in which red alders dominate to a period in which Douglas firs dominate. By walking through the forest you can see young cedars and hemlocks growing in what will one day become a dominant old-growth forest again. The course also takes runners over gravel trails, over paved terrain, past baseball fields and over grass.

History of Hartman Park

The forty acre parcel of land we know today as Hartman Park was first purchased by the City of Redmond in 1923 for $800 to ensure water quality for a nearby water source called Perrigo Springs. The land was acquired from the state of Washington, which had intended to save it as a school reserve. The city ultimately abandoned Perrigo Springs a few years later for wells it drilled in the present day location of Anderson Park (the city’s first park).

The forty acres were subsequently handed off to the fledgling Parks Department. With help from the local youth, the park soon began to grow as volunteers chipped in to build a baseball field (Babe Ruth Field) and enliven the park with many fun nights of baseball games.

The park was officially christened in 1971 as Jonathon Hartman Park, after a noteworthy Redmond figure who was born on the Eastside and received a degree as an electrical engineer from the University of Washington. Hartman later served the city as a planning director, justice of the peace, and police judge. The land became the city’s second park.

Today, Hartman Park is an oasis where nature can be seen and felt firsthand, and where the local youth can swim, hike, and play baseball, as well as run cross country in the fall. It is a community gathering point for Education Hill, surrounded by residential areas.