Heritage Gardens Trust, 507 W. 7th Ave., Spokane, WA 99204

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The Corbin & Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens are located within Pioneer Park and the Marycliff-Cliff Park National Register Historic District in Spokane, Washington. The gardens are sited on the north face of a steep bluff that faces West Seventh Avenue in what was once called "the Hill," one of early Spokane’s most socially prominent neighborhoods. 

Located on a very steep hillside strewn with massive, rocky basalt outcroppings, the garden landscape rises quickly in elevation from 2032 feet at Seventh Avenue, to 2210 feet at its most southern terminus at the top of a jagged, sheer cliff that borders Cliff Drive. Encompassing 5.6 acres (the Corbin Garden is 2.7 acres and the Moore-Turner Garden is 2.9 acres), the property is characterized by the historic Georgian Revival style D.C. Corbin House, a well-groomed lawn, and a paved road.  Parts are covered in a thick natural vegetation comprised mostly of coniferous and deciduous trees and shrubs indigenous to the Inland Northwest. 

Beneath the overgrowth of vegetation are the remnants of the Corbin & Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, including: structural foundations for greenhouses, a conservatory and a teahouse; native basalt columns and staircases leading to a 70 foot pond and pergola; a reflection pond; worn pathways to a castle overlook; and flowering bulbs emerging from a perennial garden once noted as the largest in the Northwest!