Capitol Hill is lousy with zubats and the people wandering around Capitol Hill looking at the world through their phones at Cal Anderson Park are probably playing Pokemon Go. It would be easy to write off the app as just another way our phones cause us to disengage from the surrounding world, but for many on Capitol Hill, the game is doing the opposite.

“It’s really getting a lot of people out of the house,” said Ryan Haney, who started playing because his friends seemed to be enjoying it so much. “I’ve lived in Seattle 10 years and through the game I’ve found new stuff — I found a lot of community parks I didn’t know existed.” Haney says he will continue to play for as long as his friends do, although the game and the server are both bare bones at the moment and he hopes the designers expand them soon.

The crowd of people gathered outside the Cal Anderson playground are busy farming the area for Pokemon, said Rachel Hervey. Hervey said that the multiple Pokestops right by the park entrance make it prime Pokemon-catching ground — all you have to do is sit and wait for the critters to come to you.

Hotspots like that are unusual — the park entrance just happened to be near three landmarks that were programmed to be Pokestops in the game. Most of the time the landmarks are more evenly spaced out, and players have to walk (or bike or skate or take the train or, gasp, drive) around visiting new places to catch Pokemon. “I know a bunch of people from work who go out and go all sorts of places to find them,” said Hervey. Hervey has seen some public art because of the game that she says she has never noticed before.

Meanwhile, the game presents yet another urban blessing of living in a densely populated, Pacific Northwest metropolis. It’s just not as fun to play outside of big cities.

Alexandra Sullivan was wandering around Cal Anderson as well on Monday, and said that she, too, had gone new places to find Pokemon, including a jaunt to Volunteer Park which, along with Cal Anderson, may be the best place on Capitol Hill to catch them.

William Geisert visited Volunteer Park in search of Pokemon as well, a park he says he has not been to in seven years. Geisert loves the game because it gets him out and about. He recommends using the buddy system, though. He has had some spills because he was paying too much attention to his phone and not enough to his feet.

The Pokemon you can catch also depend on your location. Scott Rosen, who was playing by the Cal Anderson fountain, said it was a great place for water Pokemon. The rest of Capitol Hill is a little less charming. “Capitol Hill seems to be full of pigeons and rats, mostly, which makes sense,” said Rosen.

Cal Anderson Park. This is what happens when you stand at the center of 3 Lure Modules. pic.twitter.com/Hd5VAUZmzF

— Chiswick (@ChiswickGryphon) July 12, 2016