5 best places to sled without leaving Seattle

Yellow curb and sculpture - Seattle Center
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If you measure sledding opportunity by proximity to God's intelligently designed snow making machines, we're here to help. Here's how to toboggan without leaving Seattle.

SDOT's Highest Elevations in Seattle

1. High Point above sea level, 6 parcels south of watertower at 35th Ave SW and SW Myrtle Street - 520 feet - NAVD88
2. Near Bitter Lake, on N 145th St just east of Greenwood Ave - 493 feet - NAVD88
3. NE 92nd ST and Roosevelt Way NE - 466 feet - NAVD88
4. Queen Anne Hill, at First Ave N and Lee Street - 456 feet - NAVD88
5. Highest point in Volunteer Park - 453 feet - NAVD88

Of course, if you measure the opportunity by likelihood of achieving light speed on your shitty plastic disc sled, you might do better to check out this list of the 20 steepest streets in Seattle.

Also, be careful -- urban sledding is dangerous!

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There’s no more dangerous place for kids to sled than the very place where his injury occurred: the street. When Children’s Hospital of Seattle tracked sledding injuries after one major snowstorm, for instance, it found that although 44 percent of kids sledded in the street, 76 percent of injuries came from street sledding.

"They hit parked cars, moving cars, telephone poles, trees, fixed objects, sometimes they overshoot their target," says Dr. Tongue, a clinical associate professor at Oregon Health Sciences in Portland.
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