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Get to Know the Jet City’s Most Vibrant and Historic Neighborhoods
Grab your walking shoes, and become an urban adventurer. Clark Humphrey guides you through 35 unique walking tours in this comprehensive guidebook. Go beyond the obvious with tours that showcase cozy bungalows, stately mansions, postmodern palaces, and outdoor art. Soak up Seattle’s history, parks, and vibe. Wander wide boulevards, narrow cobblestone lanes, and pedestrian pathways to Pioneer Square, Queen Anne Hill, the University of Washington campus, Foster Island, and beyond.
Each self-guided tour includes full-color photographs, a map, and need-to-know details like distance, difficulty, points of interest, and more. You’ll soak up history, backstories, architectural trivia, and fun facts to share with others while on your way to the best restaurants, bars, and shops in Washington. So find a route that appeals to you, and walk Seattle!
Clark Humphrey has seen Seattle transform from a boom-and-bust industrial city into today’s fast-growing, fast-moving tech mecca. His other books include Loser: The Real Seattle Music Story (reissued by MISCmedia), as well as Vanishing Seattle and Seattle’s Belltown (both by Arcadia Publishing). He writes daily about the city, its growth, and its contradictions at miscmedia.com.
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Overview Map
Introduction
Walking Tours
- Pioneer Square
- Downtown: Off the Grid
- Pike Place Market, 1st Ave., and the Waterfront
- Downtown: The Retail Core and Financial District
- Pike–Pine
- First Hill
- Belltown and Seattle Center
- South Lake Union
- Fairview and Eastlake
- West Capitol Hill and Broadway
- East Capitol Hill
- Central District
- Chinatown-International District
- SoDo Industrial District
- Alki
- Discovery Park to Ballard Locks
- Magnolia
- Queen Anne Hill
- Fremont
- Phinney Ridge and Greenwood
- Wallingford to Roosevelt
- Ballard
- Green Lake
- Ravenna and Laurelhurst
- The U District and University of Washington Campus
- Foster Island and the Arboretum
- Interlaken and Montlake
- Madrona and Madison Park
- Mount Baker
- Beacon Hill
- Columbia City to Leschi
- Rainier Beach and Kubota Garden
- Georgetown
- West Marginal Way
- West Seattle: The Junction to Admiral
Appendix A: Walks by Theme
Appendix B: Further Reading
Index
About the Author