Major Attractions

NEIGHBORHOODS & HISTORIC DISTRICTS

Pike Place Market
One of the oldest continuously-operated farmer's markets in the U.S., Pike Place presides over a nine acre historic district in the heart of downtown Seattle. The market features fresh fish and produce stands, arts and crafts, ethnic groceries and gift stores, vintage clothing, antiques and collectibles, international restaurants, cafes and food bars. Street musicians, sanctioned by the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA), entertain at designated locales throughout the market. The Pike Place Market is located between First & Western Avenues bound by Union & Stewart Streets. A visitor information booth at 1st & Pike Street offers free market maps. Visitors may also call the PDA for market information at (206) 682-7453 or visit www.pikeplacemarket.org. Additionally, market tours are offered by the Pike Place Foundation Wednesday through Friday at 11 a.m. and Saturday at 9:30 a.m. The foundation can also provide information and reservations for many other seasonal market tours and popular chef tours. The Pike Place Market is free and officially open daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. However, during the summer farming season, many produce and fish markets open around 8 a.m. or earlier.

Pioneer Square
Seattle's historic district, located on the southern fringe of the downtown business core, features some 20 square blocks of Victorian Romanesque architecture, museums, the city's highest concentration of art galleries, many restaurants - and a rip-roaring nightlife. But then, Pioneer Square's history offers many a wild tale. As a young lumber town in the 1800's, logs skidded down its streets to harbor side sawmills. The town's brisk growth was suddenly halted by a great fire in 1889 that destroyed many of its wooden structures. The town was quickly rebuilt with brick and mortar atop the rubble and Seattle boomed again as a primary staging area for the Klondike Gold Rush in the 1890's when more than 70,000 prospectors passed through town. Today, visitors are still drawn to Pioneer Square. The Underground Tour offers a look at the remnants of the old town below street level. The Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park interprets Seattle's role critical role in the gold rush. And antique-hunters, gallery-walkers and bar-hoppers keep the neighborhood bustling. Visit www.pioneersquare.org for more background.

The Seattle Center
The legacy of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, Seattle Center is a 74-acre urban park and home to the landmark Space Needle, Pacific Science Center, Experience Music Project, Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, Seattle Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, Seattle Children's Museum and many other attractions. The Seattle Center also hosts many of the city's largest festivals, including Bumbershoot (the Seattle Arts Festival), Folklife folk art festival, the Seattle International Children's Festival, the Bite of Seattle and many other community events. The Seattle Center is located just north of downtown Seattle in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood at 305 Harrison Street. From downtown Seattle, visitors can take the Seattle Center Monorail from Westlake Station at Fifth Avenue and Pine Street in downtown Seattle (rider alert: monorail service may be interrupted through December of 2004); or take a five-minute taxi ride. For more information, call (206) 441-7200 (customer service line) or visit www.seattlecenter.com.

The Seattle Waterfront
Seattle's natural deep-water harbor, Elliott Bay, teems with trade, ferry boats, luxury cruise liners, sightseeing tour boats and myriad pleasure craft. Prime harbor views can be found on the city's central waterfront, stretching along Alaskan Way from Pier 70 on the north to Pier 48 on the south. Midway, built atop Pier 59 is the Seattle Aquarium. The Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center at Pier 66 explores the busy bay beyond its doors. The pier is also home to the Bell Street Cruise Terminal, homeport for luxury cruise liners bound for Alaska's Inside Passage (a second cruise ship terminal at Pier 48). At Pier 55 and 56, Argosy Cruises features decidedly smaller vessels for sightseeing trips and evening dinner cruises. Also departing from Pier 55, Tillicum Village offers a scenic boat trip to nearby Blake Island for a Northwest Coast Native American stage show. The Seattle Waterfront also features souvenir and gift shops and an array of Northwest seafood dining. A vintage trolley system connects the waterfront with Pioneer Square and the Chinatown-International District.

Chinatown-International District
Chinese immigrants originally landed in Seattle in the 1860s, finding work at the town's saw mills, rail lines and on its fishing boats. Today, the Chinatown-International District spans some 44-blocks south of downtown Seattle, bound by Yesler Way and Dearborn Street on the north and south, and Interstate-5 and Fourth Avenue on the east and west. Seattle's Asian population has grown steadily to 13.1 percent (according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census), and today sizable populations of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Samoan, Laotian, Native Hawaiian and other groups all coexist in the Chinatown-International District. The Chinatown Discovery Tour offers a guided walk through the district. Don't miss Uwajimaya, one of the largest Asian grocery and gift stores in the U.S. at Sixth & Weller. Visitors can collect brochures and maps from the Chinatown-International District Business Improvement Association.

409 Maynard Street, Suite P-I; or call (206) 382-1197 or visit www.cidbia.org.

MUSEUMS & ATTRACTIONS

Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture
One of the foremost natural history museums in the region, The Burke features both natural and cultural artifacts from the Pacific Northwest and the Pacific Rim ranging from Native American totem poles and hand-carved cedar canoes to dinosaur skeletons, fossils, gems, minerals. Open daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and until 8 p.m. on Thursday. Closed: January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving Day, December 25.

P.O. Box 353010 (at 45th Street NE and 17th Avenue NE) Seattle, WA 98195-3010 (206) 543-5590 www.washington.edu/burkemuseum

The Children's Museum
The Children's Museum offers a fun, interactive learning environment for kids and families with exhibits such as a Global Village, Mountain Forest, Imagination Studio, Discovery Bay for toddlers, The Neighborhood, Mindscape Technology Studio, Cog City, Bijou Theatre and a traveling exhibit gallery. The museum is open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.

305 Harrison Street Seattle, WA 98109 (206) 441-1768 www.thechildrensmuseum.org

Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
The brainchild of Microsoft co-founder, Paul G. Allen, Experience Music Project (EMP) is dedicated to exploring creativity and innovation in American popular music, from rock 'n' roll, to jazz, soul, gospel, country, blues, hip-hop, punk and other genres. The Frank O. Gehry-designed, 140,000-square-foot museum features artifacts from a collection of more than 80,000 artifacts, including the world's largest collection of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia.

The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame opened June 2004 and is co-located with the Experience Music Project on the Seattle Center grounds. With seed money provided by Founder Paul G. Allen, this one-of-a-kind collection of artifacts and memorabilia include works by Isaac Asimov, Ursula Le Guin, H.G. Wells, George Lucas, Gene Rodenberry, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg and other luminaries of the genre.

The museums are open daily from May 24 to September 3, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Between September 4 and May 23, hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; first Thursday of every month open until 8 p.m.; closed Thanksgiving and Christmas.

325 Fifth Avenue North (at the Seattle Center) Seattle, WA 98109 (206) 770-2700, (877) EMP-SFM1
www.empsfm.com

Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame opened June 2004 and is co-located with the Experience Music Project on the Seattle Center grounds. With seed money provided by Founder Paul G. Allen, this one-of-a-kind collection of artifacts and memorabilia include works by Isaac Asimov, Ursula Le Guin, H.G. Wells, George Lucas, Gene Rodenberry, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg and other luminaries of the genre. The museum is open daily May 31 to September 6 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Between September 7 and May 30, the museum is open Tuesday-Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6p.m. The museum is closed Monday except on holidays. www.empsfm.com

Henry Art Gallery
"The Henry" is the art museum of the University of Washington, located in a striking Charles Gwathmey-designed glass and textured steel building on the west side of the campus. One of the Pacific Northwest's premier modern and contemporary art museums, the Henry Art Museum showcases exhibitions and their related programs which invite dialogue about contemporary culture, politics, aesthetics and the traditions of visual art and design of the last two centuries. Hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday; open 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday. Gallery, cafe, and shop are closed Mondays, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Year's Day.

University of Washington 15th Avenue NE and NE 41st Street Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 543-2280 www.henryart.org

Hiram M. Chittenden Locks
The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, often called Ballard Locks, lie at the western end of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Seattle. They were constructed to raise and lower ships (between six and 26 feet depending on the tides) to allow them to pass between fresh water (Lakes Union and Washington) and salt water (Puget Sound). Operated by the Army Corp of Engineers, the locks are one of Seattle's most popular visitor attractions and offer a visitor center, fish ladder for salmon, steelhead and other fish and a botanical garden. Visitor center hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., October through April (closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May through September. Public tours are available March 1 through November 30.

3015 NW 54th St. (in Ballard) Seattle, WA 98107 Public phone: (206) 783-7059 www.nws.usac.army.mil/opdiv/lwsc

Klondike Goldrush National Historic Park
Operated by the National Park Service, the Seattle Park Unit of the Klondike Goldrush National Historic Park (there is another unit in Ketchikan, Alaska) is actually a free museum commemorating Seattle's role as gateway to the gold rush in the 1890's, when the young town provided provisions and transportation to some 70,000 prospectors. Open daily, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.

117 S Main Street (Pioneer Square) Seattle, WA 98104 (206) 220-4240
www.nps.gov/klse

Museum of Flight
From the Wright brothers to outer space, the wonder of flight comes alive at one of the world's largest air and space museums. With more than 85 historic aircraft on display, interactive exhibits and activities for the whole family, The Museum of Flight offers an unforgettable experience for the aviation enthusiast and general visitor alike. Recent additions to the museum include a retired British Airways Concorde jetliner and the new 88,000 square foot Personal Courage Wing showcasing 28 rare and restored World War I and II fighter aircraft. Open daily, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the first Thursday of every month till 9:00 p.m. Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.

9404 East Marginal Way S. (at Boeing Field) Seattle, WA 98108-4097 (206) 764-5720 www.museumofflight.org

The Future of Flight
The Future of Flight Aviation Center and Boeing Tour is open and welcoming visitors in Everett, 20 miles north of Seattle. The new 73,000-square-foot commercial jet interpretive center is located at the west edge of the Paine Field airstrip, directly across from Boeing's largest jet assembly plant. The center features an aviation gallery with interactive exhibits on commercial aviation, a theater and a roof-top observation deck to view the airport's take-offs and landings. Exhibits include a flight simulator, cut-aways from fuselages of several Boeing airplane models and an airplane design program where guests can design an aircraft and have its airworthiness tested by computer. Tours of the nearby Boeing plant, which begin and end at the center, feature a 90-minute guided exploration of the largest building in the world by volume where Boeing's 747, 767, 777 and 787 are built.

8415 Paine Field Blvd.
Mukilteo, WA 98275
(425) 265-9808, (888) 467-4777
www.futureofflight.org

Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art
Dedicated to contemporary art with a sustained concentration on the medium of glass, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma features works by internationally-known artists. The Museum features 13,000 square feet of open exhibition space and a striking 9,200-square-foot hot shop Amphitheater which includes a hot glass studio where artistic teams blow and cast glass, a cold glass studio for completing artworks and raised seating for 138 visitors, complete with large video screens offering live glass blowing footage. Linking the museum with downtown Tacoma, the Chihuly Bridge of Glass is a 500-foot-long pedestrian overpass shrouded in glass art from renowned local artist Dale Chihuly. Fall/Winter/Spring hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday Noon to 5 p.m. Summer hours (Memorial Day through Labor Day) are Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday Noon to 5 p.m. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day and July 4.

1801 East Dock Street
Tacoma, WA 98402
(866) 4MUSEUM
www.museumofglass.org

Museum of History & Industry
The Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) celebrates the rich history of the Pacific Northwest and features noteworthy exhibits from the Smithsonian and Library of Congress. MOHAI showcases a large collection of regional historic and cultural treasures and the museum is an indoor playground for all ages. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. First Thursdays of each month are free with extended hours until 8 p.m. Closed Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, early closures on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

2700 24th Avenue East (Montlake neighborhood)
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 324-1126
www.seattlehistory.org

Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center
Odyssey, The Maritime Discovery Center explores the maritime community's influence on our lives through commercial fishing, shipping, trade, transportation, recreation and marine protection. Summer hours (July 1 through Labor Day) are Sunday through Wednesday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. and Thursday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Winter hours (October 1 through April 1) are Wednesday through Thursday 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Saturday through Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. For admission, directions and parking information call (206) 374-4001or visit www.ody.org

2205 Alaskan Way, Pier 66
Seattle, WA 98121
(206) 374-4000
www.ody.org

Pacific Science Center
A hands-on learning center for kids and families offering permanent and traveling exhibits. Permanent exhibits feature an interactive dinosaur display, Tropical Butterfly House, Insect Village, Puget Sound Model and Saltwater Tide Pool, plus other exhibits showcasing animals, technology, and more. Two IMAX theaters showcase the latest in big-screen and 3-D films; the Boeing IMAX Theatre features a screen six stories high and 80 feet wide, with 12,000 watts of stereo sound. Open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; closed Mondays.

200 Second Avenue North (located at the Seattle Center)
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 443-2001
www.pacsci.org

Seattle Aquarium
The Seattle Aquarium reopened to the public on June 22, 2007 after a remodel and expansion. The project included replacing the pilings that support the aquarium's primary pier, an 18,000 square-foot expansion to the existing building, a completely new exterior and the addition of a 40-foot, 55,000-lb. viewing window into the new 120,000-gallon showcase exhibit. The Aquarium is located at Pier 59, just down the hillclimb stairs from Pike Place Market. Gates are open 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily with exhibits closing at 6 p.m.

Pier 59 (Seattle Waterfront)
1483 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 386-4300
www.seattleaquarium.org

Seattle Art Museum
Occupying a Robert Venturi-designed building in downtown Seattle, the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) boasts a collection of approximately 23,000 objects, ranging from ancient Egyptian artifacts to contemporary American photo and video installations. SAM underwent an 118,000-square-foot expansion in 2007, bringing the total square footage of the museum to 268,000 square feet with an option to expand an additional 182,000 square feet at a later date. The museum offers noteworthy permanent collections of Asian, African, Northwest Coast Native American, modern and contemporary art, European painting and decorative arts. SAM also maintains an ambitious schedule of traveling exhibitions.
100 University Street
Seattle, WA 98101-2902
(206) 654-3100
www.seattleartmuseum.org

Seattle Asian Art Museum
Located in a 1930s art modern building in the heart of Volunteer Park on Seattle's Capitol Hill, the Seattle Asian Art Museum features noteworthy collections of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian art. The museum's Japanese collection is considered one of the top-five in the U.S. and among the most distinguished outside of Japan. Open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (open Thursdays until 9 p.m.). Closed Mondays throughout the year and Tuesdays from Labor Day to Memorial Day.

Volunteer Park
1400 East Prospect Street
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 654-3100
www.seattleartmuseum.org

Olympic Sculpture Park
This nine-acre sculpture park features a 2,500-foot descending, Z-shaped path connecting the Belltown neighborhood in downtown Seattle with a beach on the waterfront. The path takes visitors past a range of permanent and rotating sculptures and major works by world-renowned artists such as Richard Serra, Alexander Calder and Mark di Suvero, while allowing visitors to take in the scenery offered by Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. The park also features the PACCAR Pavilion, a glass and steel structure that houses a fluctuating exhibit, public event space as well as a café. The Gates Amphitheater sits adjacent to the pavilion, featuring descending grass terraces for outdoor films and performances. The Olympic Sculpture Park is open to the public, free of charge.

2901 Western Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121
206.654.3100
www.seattleartmuseum.org

Smith Tower Observation Deck
Once Seattle's tallest building, Smith Tower, built in 1914 and restored in 1999, offers 360 degree views of the city, sound and mountains from its 35th floor observation deck. The deck is reached via the last remaining manual elevators on the West Coast. Observation deck hours are Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m, November through March. From April 1 to October 31, the observation deck is open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

506 Second Avenue (Pioneer Square)
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 622-4004
www.smithtower.com

Space Needle
A legacy of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, the 605-foot Space Needle observation tower is an ever-futuristic icon of Seattle. The Space Needle features an observation deck at the 520-foot level with 360-degree views of the Seattle skyline, Puget Sound and the Cascade and Olympic Mountains. Just below, SkyCity restaurant rotates on the hour and specializes in Pacific Northwest cuisine. A gift store is located in the Space Needle lobby. The observation deck and lobby are open Sunday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Friday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to Midnight. SkyCity is open for lunch Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., dinner Sunday-Thursday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday until 10 p.m. The Needle also offers brunch on Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

400 Broad Street (at the Seattle Center
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 905-2111 (information)
(800) 937-9582 (reservations)
www.spaceneedle.com

Woodland Park Zoo
Often ranked among the top zoos in the country, Woodland Park is famed for setting international standards for animal care and for its realistic landscape exhibits that allow animals to thrive and be seen in naturalistic environments. Popular exhibits include an African Savanna, Northern Trail, Tropical Rain Forest, "Bug" World, Trail of Vines, Willawong Station and Jaguar Cove. The zoo opens daily at 9:30 a.m. Closing times vary: 4 p.m. October 1 to April 30; 6 p.m. May 1 to September 30.

601 North 59th Street (North Seattle)
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 684-4800
www.zoo.org

TOURS & CRUISES
Argosy Cruises
Argosy Cruises is Seattle's largest water sightseeing tour operator, offering excursions of Seattle's harbor, Lakes Union and Washington, the Hiram Chittenden Locks and Puget Sound. The one-hour, narrated Harbor Cruise departs from Pier 55 on the Seattle Waterfront and cruises Elliott Bay (Seattle's busy harbor) several times daily with hours changing seasonally. Argosy offers a 2 1/2-hour Locks cruise which departs from the Seattle Waterfront and cruises Elliott Bay through the Hiram Chittenden Locks into Lake Union, featuring Seattle's floating houseboat community. Lakes cruises offer either a two-hour trip from AGC Marina on South Lake Union, or a 90-minute cruise of Lake Washington from Kirkland (ten miles east of Seattle). Argosy also offers dinner, brunch and lunch cruises year-around aboard the Royal Argosy, a 180-foot classically designed cruise ship featuring white linen tables, mahogany trim, marble tops, chandeliers and several accessible decks. Live music on selected sailings. The Royal Argosy departs from Pier 56 on the Seattle Waterfront.

Pier 55 Ticket Booth
Argosy Visitor Center at Pier 56
Seattle Waterfront
1101 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 623-1445
www.argosycruises.com

Chinatown Discovery Tours
A guided walking tour of the Chinatown-International District showcases Seattle's busy Asian neighborhood on the southern fringe of downtown Seattle. Tours include: A Touch of Chinatown, a 90-minute introduction to the neighborhood; a Chinatown by Day tour which includes a six-course dim sum lunch; Nibble Your Way Through Chinatown; a progressive taste tour through the district; and the Chinatown by Night tour which includes an eight-course banquet. Call for a tour schedule and reservations.

407 7th Avenue S.
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 623-5124
www.seattlechinatowntour.com

Gray Line of Seattle
Gray Line offers an array of motor coach tours in and around Seattle, most departing from the Gray Line desk in the Seattle Sheraton, downtown Seattle. The three-hour City Sights Tour showcases in-city neighborhoods. A Land & Water Tour combines a City Sights Tour with a cruise through the Ballard Locks. For travelers seeking more flexibility, the Hop-On/ Hop-Off Double Decker loop offers plenty of downtown sightseeing options and reservations aren’t required (tickets are available on board). The Double Decker highlights downtown attractions and “combo” tours add an Argosy harbor tour, Experience Music Project, the Space Needle or the Underground Tour. Gray Line also offers sightseeing excursions to Mt. Rainier National Park, Tillicum Village, Boeing (Everett Main Assembly Plant), San Juan Islands and Victoria, B.C. The Hop-On/ Hop-Off Double Decker is seasonal and runs May through September.

4500 West Marginal Way SW
Seattle, WA 98106
(206) 624-5077
(800) 426-7532
www.graylineofseattle.com

Kenmore Air
The largest full-service seaplane operation in the world, Kenmore Air boasts a fleet of 25 planes which annually log more than two million miles and carry more than 125,000 passengers. Regular flights between the airline's two Seattle terminals (at Lake Union just north of downtown Seattle and Kenmore, ten miles north on Lake Washington) feature the San Juan Islands, Oak Harbor, Victoria, B.C., the Gulf Islands, Vancouver B.C. and the Inside Passage. Special packages and excursions including sport fishing, whale watching, waterside picnics and more are also offered. From Seattle, Kenmore also features 20-minute scenic "flightseeing" trips which are popular with visitors.

Kenmore Air Harbor:
6321 NE 175th Street
Kenmore, WA 98028-0064

Lake Union Air Harbor:
950 Westlake Avenue
Seattle, WA 98109

206-282-8744 (Lake Union)
(425) 486-1257 (Kenmore)
(800) 435-9524 (Reservations)
www.kenmoreair.com

Ride the Ducks
Tour Seattle by land and sea with Ride the Ducks. The tour features vintage DUKW vehicles ("Ducks"), amphibious landing craft developed by the United States Army during World War II. Your Seattle tour encompasses downtown Seattle and Lake Union. Duck tours depart daily on the hour and half hour between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. October through April and 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. May through September. Additional departures are added during busy times - call for the most up-to-date schedule.

516 Broad Street (near Seattle Center)
Seattle, WA 98109
www.ridetheducksofseattle.com

Seattle Seaplanes
Seattle Seaplanes offers year-around sightseeing flights from Seattle's Lake Union, in addition to "dinner flights" to popular restaurants and resorts in the San Juan Islands, Victoria, B.C., Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula and the towns of Port Ludlow, Hadlock, Poulsbo on the Kitsap Peninsula. Charters, special occasion flights and flight instruction are also available.

1325 Fairview Avenue East (Lake Union's south shore)
Seattle, WA 98102
(206) 329-9638/1-800-637-5553
www.seattleseaplanes.com

The Underground Tour
The Underground Tour offers a 90-minute guided tour below the streets of the Pioneer Square neighborhood, Seattle's historic district. The tour takes visitors though the subterranean passages that once served as the main roadways and first-floor storefronts of old Seattle. The great fire of 1889 destroyed much of the original wooden city, but Seattle was rebuilt with brick and mortar atop the ruins. Today visitors can tour the remnants below the streets via guided tours that are rich with history, anecdotes and a subterranean joke or two. Daily tours are offered; times change seasonally.

608 First Avenue (Pioneer Square)
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 682-4646
www.undergroundtour.com

Tillicum Village and Blake Island Marine State Park
A scenic boat excursion from Pier 55 on the Seattle Waterfront combines a taste of First Nations Native American culture with the pristine beauty of Blake Island State Park. The 4-hour tour includes a delicious appetizer of steamed clams and nectar, a traditional salmon bake and dances and legends from Northwest Tribes. Blake Island State Park offers visitors the chance to extend their stay to explore a lowland forest with 16 miles of hiking or biking trails and five miles of saltwater beaches. While there, browse the gift gallery and enjoy artifact and craft displays and demonstrations.

Tickets and embarkation: Pier 55, Seattle Waterfront
Public phone: (206) 933-8600/(800) 426-1205
www.tillicumvillage.com
www.blakeislandadventures.com

Victoria Clipper
Victoria Clipper operates regular catamaran service between Pier 66 on the Seattle Waterfront and Victoria, B.C. (year-around), and the San Juan Islands (seasonally). Victoria Clipper IV, which can travel up to 30 knots, is known as one of the fastest passenger vessels in the western hemisphere, making the Seattle-Victoria trip in just two hours. Schedules and fares vary depending on the season and destination. Additionally, Clipper Vacations, now the region's largest locally-based tour operator, offers a wide range of single and multi-day excursions via catamaran, motor coach and train throughout the North West and Canadian Rockies.

2701 Alaskan Way, Pier 69
Seattle, WA 98121
Reservations: (206) 448-5000 or (800) 888-2535 (outside Seattle and Victoria)
www.victoriaclipper.com

Washington State Ferries
The Washington State Ferry system is the largest in the U.S., carrying more than 26 million passengers each year aboard 28 vessels operating from 20 terminals. From the Seattle waterfront, ferries carrying up to 2,500 passengers and 218 automobiles travel to and from Bremerton on the Olympic Peninsula (55 minutes one way) and Bainbridge Island (35 minutes one way). Both routes offer panoramic views of the Seattle skyline and harbor and visitors often jump aboard for quick cross-Sound sightseeing trips. An adult fare costs $6.70 one way.

Downtown Seattle/Pier 52 Terminal
801 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 464-6400 or (888) 808-7977 (in Washington State and British Columbia)
www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries.

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