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Walking Seattle: 35 Tours of the Jet City's Parks, Landmarks, Neighborhoods, and Scenic Views
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About Walking Seattle: 35 Tours Of The Jet City's
Product Description 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! About the Author 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. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Discovery Park to Ballard Locks Kites, Boats, and Powwows BOUNDARIES: 36th Ave. W., Discovery Park Blvd., Utah Ave., 32nd Ave. NW, and NW 54th St. DISTANCE: 5 miles DIFFICULTY: Difficult (one steep uphill trail) PARKING: Free parking in Discovery Park east lot, just inside the Government Way entrance PUBLIC TRANSIT: Metro routes 24 and 33 stop near this walk’s start. Routes 17, 29, and 44 stop near its end. Two of Seattle’s most popular scenic spots are legacies from the U.S. Army. The former Fort Lawton in northwest Magnolia, which Seattle gave the Army in 1900 and the Army returned to the city in 1972, is now Discovery Park. The city’s biggest park encompasses 534 acres, mostly reclaimed for nature and nature-loving humans. It has walking trails ranging from flat to steep and a restored lighthouse guarding a wide beachfront. Just north of Discovery, the Hiram M. Chittenden (also known as Ballard) Locks, built in 1916 and managed by the Army Corps of Engineers, is the gateway between Lakes Union and Washington. A key passageway for both pleasure and commercial boats (and for our precious salmon), it also serves as a water-level footbridge across the Lake Washington Ship Canal, with finely landscaped grounds at both ends. Walk Description Start at Discovery Park’s east entrance, 36th Ave. W. and Discovery Park Blvd. Take the separate sidewalk to the south of the vehicular road. The first left turn you can take from here leads you, past a parking lot, to the Discovery Park Visitor Center. From there backtrack to, and continue westward on, Discovery Park Blvd., and then turn left onto Washington Ave. This road is initially heavily wooded with mostly deciduous trees. At the top of a mild slope you reach a large clearing. Washington Ave. heads west, past the Fort Lawton Historic District, two stretches of white-and-yellow painted wood buildings (including officers’ residences, a chapel, a bus shelter, and a gym) separated by a huge open meadow (a great place for kite flying and running about). Some of the buildings have been rehabbed as private homes. Amid these old wooden structures sits a piece of Cold War tech, a radar tower shaped like a giant golf ball. Washington Ave. intersects with Oregon Ave. Turn right (north) on Oregon, as it bends northwest then southwest and intersects with Idaho Ave. Turn right (north) on Idaho toward an old, long bus shelter. (Like many of the old fort structures, it was a location in the 1973 James Caan movie Cinderella Liberty.) North of this shelter, turn left on the path that parellels Discovery Park Blvd. I
