Set atop 450ft Queen Anne hill, this affluent neighborhood northwest of Seattle Center has an abundance of fine restaurants and cafes along lower Queen Anne Street North. The plethora of Queen Anne-style mansions built here in the late 19C earned the..

The marina here on the south side of the Ballard Bridge is home port for some 700 commercial fishing boats-from small, family-owned vessels to enormous factory trawlers. The vast terminal building houses several casual and crowded seafood restaurants..

The mansions of old Seattle not far from bohemian coffeehouses, and university student hang-outs around the corner from working?class taverns. Though it never became the site of the state capitol as city planners had hoped, the high ground of Capitol..

This popular, 323-acre park was 1910 city project that blocked the natural drainage into the lake, exposing an additional 7ft of shoreline for green spaces and a boulevard, but an unanticipated result was the explosive growth of algae, already preval..

Looped by more than 7mi of hiking trails and 5mi of paved biking trails, the park is also interspersed with the former facilities of Fort Lawton (now mostly private residences), designed at the turn of the century by the Olmsted brothers.

Preserved as a city park, the beach parallels a boardwalk frequented by walkers and joggers in almost any weather. Aside from its obvious seaside pleasures, the beach looks out on the open waters of Puget Sound or east across Elliott Bay to the Seatt..

Kubota Gardens owe their existence to their namesake designer, Japanese immigrant Fujitaro Kubota. In the late 1920s, Kubota purchased five acres of logged marshland and began transforming it into a botanical showplace for his business, the Kubota Ga..