Sunday, August 13, 2017

Things to do in Seattle

Indoors


  • Space Needle
  • Chihuly Garden and Glass
  • Museum of Pop Culture (MoPop)
  • Museum of Flight
  • Boeing Tour
  • Wine Tasting in Woodinville (100+ wineries and a few distilleries) or south end of Seattle
  • Tacoma Glass Museum (Tacoma)
  • America's Car Museum (Tacoma)
  • Seattle Art Museum
  • Seattle Asian Art Museum
  • Frye Art Museum
  • Seattle Pinball Museum
  • Seattle Underground Tour
  • Living Computers Museum
  • Museum of History and Industry (Mohai)
  • Pioneer Square (local arts, but gotten kind of sketchy since the pandemic)
  • Klondike Gold Rush National Park
  • Geocaching HQ
  • Amazon Spheres (requires Stewart to take you inside)
  • Starbucks Reserve Roastery 
  • Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum


Local Stuff


  • Pike Place Market and Gum Wall
  • Waterfront including Ferris Wheel
  • Ballard Farmers Market
  • Kerry Park Lookout
  • Fremont Troll
  • Looking at Yachts for sale on South Lake Union (and Sleepless in Seattle locations)
  • Shopping (downtown stores)
  • Shopping (Mox Boarding House game store)
  • Food (Lots of good restaurants including seafood)
  • If good lowtides, looking for sea creatures (Karkeek Park, West Seattle Alki Beach)
  • At the right time, Salmon runs (Karkeek Park: Piper Creek, Ballard Locks)

Outdoors

Local

  • University of Washington Japanese Garden
  • Kubota Japanese Garden
  • Bloedel Reserve (Garden) (Bainbridge Island)
  • Seward Park (a few old growth trees)(views of Lake Washington)
  • Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden
  • Pacific Bonsai Museum
  • Olympic Sculpture Park
  • Mariner's Baseball
  • Woodland Park Zoo
  • Cycling along Lake Washington (Burke Gilman Trail / 520 bike path)

Other

  • Kraken NHL Hockey

Hiking



Islands (Day Trip)

  • San Juan Island (views of whales from shore if lucky)
  • Orcas Island (Mount Constitution State Park)
  • Whidbey Island (Deception Pass, Beach Parks on the sound, Town of La Conner)
  • Port Townsend 

Other Day Trips


National Parks


  • Mount Rainier (2.5 hour drive)
  • Olympic National Park (3 to 4 hour drive ... Hoh Rain Forest)
  • North Cascades National Park (2.5 hours ... lots of hikes)
  • Mount Saint Helen's National Monument( 3 hour drive ... not a lot to see )

Overnight Trips

  • Portland (and first geocache plaque)
  • Walla Walla (wine country)
  • Columbia River
  • Oregon Coast
  • Manhattan Project B Reactor Tour (Hanford)