10 Things We Love About Seattle
Reasons to Visit Seattle, More Than Once
Seattle might be one of the most eclectic cities you’ll ever visit and the things we love about Seattle range from the great outdoors to arty and culinary adventures. The city strikes a good balance with its bustling metropolis set in contrast against the beautiful Mount Rainier and the Olympic Mountain Range that looms over the Puget Sound in the distance.
Each neighborhood is distinct, so there’s always something new to discover. There’s a festival almost every month throughout the year to keep you entertained. You can even go on a fun treasure hunt to discover some of Seattle’s quirkier sights. Here are just some of the things we love about Seattle.
1. Pike Place Market
A Seattle institution with much to see and taste
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Pike Place Market is a bustling public marketplace that has graced Seattle’s scenic Elliott Bay waterfront since 1907. It’s now 9 acres in size, comprising 3 floors filled with a variety of fresh seafood and farmers’ stalls with over a dozen restaurants catering to a range of palates.
Check out the ‘flying fish’ as you watch the fishmongers’ amusing antics of hurling fresh catches for buyers. Find Rachel the Pig, a huge bronze piggybank where you can strike a pose or put in some coins that will go to benefit the local community. อ่านเพิ่มเติม
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Pike Place Market
2. Partying at over 100 festivals
There are different celebrations every month
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In Seattle, you can party at over 100 festivals each year and celebrate just about everything, be it culture, food, music, performing arts, or movie theater. You can catch a different festival almost every month. Things kick-off early in the year as the city celebrates its boating culture with the Seattle Boat Show taking place in January or February.
Cinephiles can indulge themselves over the well-attended 3-week Seattle International Film Festival, in May or June. For one of North America’s biggest festivals of its type, you’ve got to see Bumbershoot, a celebration of international music and arts that’s held over Labor Day weekend in August or September.
Partying at over 100 festivals
3. Diverse nature just a short drive away
Whale watching in the Puget Sound or hiking national parks
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Seattle offers a variety of ways to experience the great outdoors. Surrounded by beautiful natural scenery, almost everywhere you look the peaks of Cascade Range, Mt. Rainier, and the Olympic Mountain Range loom large in the distance. Further east you’ll find the desert plains of Eastern Washington.
You can enjoy scenic hiking at Mount Rainier National Park, only 90 minutes’ drive south of Seattle. Another 90 minutes north will take you to Puget Sound, where you can hop on a boat to see orcas, humpback whales, and sea mammals around the San Juan Islands.
Diverse nature just a short drive away
4. The vibrant art scene
Pop-up galleries aplenty
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Seattle is a great place for art lovers thanks to its collection of art museums and an eclectic scene of pop-up galleries that are usually held inside studio apartments. A quick visit into The Seattle Art Museum’s lobby should give you a nice view of its currently featured sculptures and paintings. You can further explore rooms devoted to visual arts from various cultures, from the First Nations, African, and Mediterranean artwork to aboriginal masterpieces from Down Under.
Other notable sites include Frye Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Hedreen Gallery, Wing Luke Museum, and the Olympic Sculpture Park for magnificent art out in the open.
The vibrant art scene
5. The coffee
Caffeine fixes beyond the first Starbucks
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You might well go sleepless in Seattle, thanks to the city’s obsession with coffee. Pike Place Market was where the world’s first Starbucks opened in 1971, and all around the city you’ll find bakeries and coffee shops that have become institutions in their respective neighborhoods.
New coffee shops seem to pop up from time to time, each striving to offer a unique highlight such, as gourmet donuts or amazing desserts alongside their aromatic roasts. The variety here and the competitiveness created insure you have a great coffee experience while in town.
The coffee
6. Weird attractions
Some are ghastly but hard to resist
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Seattle has a knack for the arty, but sometimes things here can get downright peculiar. There are a few oddities around town that are worth hunting out. The most famous is perhaps the Gum Wall of Seattle, which also happens to be a disgusting piece of interactive art. You can make your own contribution to this massive mural under Pike Place Market by adding your own ‘masterpiece’ of chewed gum to it.
Next, try to find the Fremont Troll who guards under the Aurora Bridge, or the statue of Russia’s Lenin in Fremont Place andthe towering rocket nearby, all looking more than a little out of place.
Weird attractions
7. Great network of cycling routes
Seattle is one of the best biking cities in the US
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Seattle is a cyclist’s haven, thanks to the great network of dedicated bike paths that wind within and without the city. You can easily pedal from tree-lined urban spaces to find yourself exploring more natural terrain in the neighboring nature parks.
For appetizers, from downtown you can try the easy route past East Lake and up scenic waterfront trails to Lake Forest Park via Hawthorne Hills. You can even go on an island-hopping cycling trip, via routes connecting Seattle, Mercer Island, and West Bellevue.
Great network of cycling routes
8. It’s a craft beer haven
Seattle’s other favorite drink
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Seattle is obsessed with coffee and beer, and you’ll find coffee shops and breweries all across the city. Craft breweries are thriving and you can find dozens of small brewers all around the city. Each offers their own experimental blends of malt, hops, yeast, and water, with signature takes on India Pale Ale (IPA), stouts, flavored ales, and lagers.
Pike Place Market has a few local breweries worth trying. The neighborhood along Ballard Way, southwest of Woodland Park Zoo, makes a good ‘beer trek’ as it’s lined with numerous microbreweries.
It’s a craft beer haven
9. Great seafood
Bordering Puget Sound has its benefits
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You’ll enjoy an abundance of fresh seafood in Seattle as it’s blessed with a constant supply of fresh produce courtesy of the daily catches from Puget Sound. Great seafood dining spots are easy to find. Simply choose one by a waterfront for enjoying shucked oysters, smoked salmon and trout, rockfish ceviche, or grilled octopus salad with wonderful views.
Pike Place Market is a good place to start, while Northlake Way has some cool and casual spots with fish houses that feature wooden benches laid out under colorful parasols by the wharf.
Great seafood
10. Eclectic neighborhoods
Where history meets urban vibes
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Seattle’s unique neighborhoods all come with their own distinct characters. To discover Seattle’s maritime heritage, head down to Ballard where you can find the Nordic Heritage Museum dutifully preserving evidence of the area’s Scandinavian roots. Capitol Hill is the most colorful of Seattle’s neighborhoods. It serves as the center to the city’s gay scene and pays tribute to such legends with local ties as Bruce Lee (his final resting place) and Jimi Hendrix (a memorial statue).
Fremont is home to some of Seattle’s quirkiest counter-culture spots and hosts some of the city’s most colorful (and often partially nude) festivals. For lively barhopping, try Belltown for its cool collection of trendy nightspots.
Eclectic neighborhoods
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