Seattle

Day 1 · ~4.2 km

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   Waterfront Park and the Alaskan Way Promenade

   The ground a double-deck freeway stood on until 2019, opened as a park in 2025

   Any time · 60 min

   Walk the promenade end to end and find the house posts by Oscar Tuazon, carved by Randi Purser of the Suquamish and Tyson Simmons and Keith Stevenson of the Muckleshoot.

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   Pike Place Market

   A working public market, nine acres down a hillside

   Morning · 90 min

   Go down. The stalls at street level are the postcard; the floors below, stepping down the bluff, are where the market stops performing.

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   Victor Steinbrueck Park

   A lawn the market's defender designed himself

   Any time · 20 min

   Sit at the north end, where the ground falls away and the bay opens up past the poles.

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   Space Needle

   Tripod and saucer, and a glass floor added later

   Any time · 75 min

   Walk the open-air deck all the way round first, then drop to the glass floor and stand still while it rotates under you.

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   Seattle Center Monorail

   Nine tenths of a mile of 1962, never extended

   Any time · 20 min

   Ride it both ways and sit at the front, where the line threads between buildings at second-storey height.

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   Kerry Park

   The postcard: Needle, downtown and Rainier stacked from a ledge on the south slope

   Any time · 20 min

   Take the wall. Everyone lines up along it at dusk, and the shot everyone came for is the one where the Needle sits in front of downtown with Rainier behind, which only works from this ledge.