Travel to Seattle

[PantherMan89]

So I'm going to seattle for a week in August and it will be my first time there. Looking for suggestions of things to do and places to see/eat. I'll be staying in downtown seattle by the pike place market. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[SOJA]

You've already satisfied rule number one of traveling in America:

 

1) Don't go to Detroit. 

[Chimera]

Take a cruise to Tillicum Island. Also its still whale watching season. Head down to Fife and visit the Emerald Queen Casino. If you have kids, they will love Seattle Center (the area around the apace needle). There are museums right around PPM. You're also pretty close to the baseball stadium.

[PantherMan89]

Take a cruise to Tillicum Island. Also its still whale watching season. Head down to Fife and visit the Emerald Queen Casino. If you have kids, they will love Seattle Center (the area around the apace needle). There are museums right around PPM. You're also pretty close to the baseball stadium.

No kids but those all sound good. I'm going to a baseball game and would be very interested in the whale watching. Thanks for the input

[Double Trouble]

I'll be up there in late August for the Boise St vs UW game! I got a couple buddies who go there for school. The Pike fish market and surrounding area is a popular tourist spot. I recommend going by the University of Washington campus too its pretty cool and they just re-did Husky Stadium (its right off Lake Washington which is awesome)

[Chimera]

Oh yes, Lake Washington is a must! It might be too late, but salmon fishing in mountain streams is HUGE in that area.

Do check put Mt. Rainier also. You can drive up to like 5500ish feet. About 500-1000 feet more on foot and you start getting to the glaciers. There's just something inherently awesome about playing on ice in the middle of summer.

Outdoor activities are great. You will see sea lions down by the piers. You are almost literally surrounded by national parks. Seattle is so close to the wilderness it'll blow your mind.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

30 minutes south of Seattle is the largest car museum in North America.  If you are heading to Mt. Rainier (recommended) this would be a stop worth including.

 

http://www.lemaymuseum.org/page.php?id=64

 

LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM) spotlights America’s love affair with the automobile.  Featuring a nine-acre campus – with a four-story museum as the centerpiece – ACM, situated atop Tacoma, Wash., 30 minutes south of Seattle and in the shadow of Mt. Rainier, is one of the world’s largest auto museums and attractions when it opened in June 2012.

ACM is designed to preserve history and celebrate the world’s automotive culture.  The spacious facility houses up to 350 cars, trucks and motorcycles from private owners, corporations, and the LeMay collection, which amassed a Guinness Book record of more than 3,500 vehicles in the mid-‘90s.

 

Here is a current list of what is on display.  http://www.lemaymuseum.org/page.php?id=491

 

http://youtu.be/wK4On4yufXo

 

[NanuqoftheNorth]

Space Needle also has a very nice restaurant at the top with constant rotation and a great view, you can make reservations on line.

 

 

Restaurant Menus

Dinner MenuLunch Menu Brunch Menu Kids' Menu Wine List

 

 

 

 

[NanuqoftheNorth]

You could ride a duck.

 

http://www.ridetheducksofseattle.com/

 

 

http://youtu.be/GPY47RGHLsM

 

[Anybodyhome]

You could ride a duck.

 

http://www.ridetheducksofseattle.com/

 

 

http://youtu.be/GPY47RGHLsM

 

That is obviously a staged video... it's sunny and not raining...wtf?

[PantherMan89]

I definitely plan on eating in the space needle. Would love to go to mt rainier just wasn't sure how far of a drive it would be from seattle. Will be checking out the campus while I'm there. Started looking into the whale watching and will end up doing it as well

[dr_rock]

Pike Place, of course. If the monorail is running from the Seattle Center it goes straight to Pike Place. Mt Ranier is a good ways but this place is about half an hour west and is amazing - http://www.snoqualmiefalls.com/. Plus very near a nice new casino, if your into that.

 

Near the baseball stadium is the worlds largest "over the water" ferris wheel which has soun incredible views.

 

A place called The Locks are cool and I think free  - basically it was a trial run for the Panama Canal's lock technique and is also used to allow the salmon to upstream.

 

Get some food in the international district (old China town) great asian food.

[PantherMan89]

Any last minute ideas? Flying out tuesday

[Chimera]

Sit on the left side of the plane. You'll see why Mt. Rainier has been mentioned so many times.