![]() ![]() Head to the right, also along the waterfront, and you'll find more restaurants, plus the Seattle Aquarium, the Seattle Great Wheel, and beyond that, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, a museum/souvenir shop that has been on the waterfront since 1899. ![]() To the left of the Bell Street Cruise Terminal at Pier 66, towards Pier 70, you'll find assorted coffee shops and restaurants along with the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park. There are limited "extra" amenities, beyond restrooms, inside either terminal. Smith Cove (Pier 91): Passengers traveling with Carnival Cruise Line, Celebrity Cruises, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises and Royal Caribbean International embark and disembark from the Smith Cove Cruise Terminal at Pier 91, which is located at the north end of the Elliott Bay waterfront, at the base of the Magnolia neighborhood and 2 miles from Seattle's downtown core. (A third is expected at Pier 46 sometime in 2023.)īell Street Pier 66: Oceania Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line passengers embark and disembark from the Bell Street Pier Cruise Terminal at Pier 66, on the downtown Seattle waterfront. There are two cruise ship terminals in Seattle. Next door to the pop culture museum is Seattle's most famous landmark, the Space Needle, which still looks futuristic although it was created for the 1962 World's Fair. There's plenty of must-see modern architecture, too, from the geometrically exuberant glass-and-steel Central Library on 4th Avenue downtown to the MoPop Museum at Seattle Center, which celebrates music and popular culture in a building inspired by a pile of smashed guitars. In nearby Pioneer Square is the 38-story Smith Tower, which opened in 1914 and held the title of tallest building west of the Mississippi for more than 50 years. Pristine mountain ranges rim the east, while hundreds of islands dot the Sound to the north and west.ĭowntown, you'll find Pike Place Market, one of the oldest continuously operating farmers' markets in the United States. It's actually at the inland-most end of Puget Sound, which wends its way north to the Pacific and is the gateway to some of the most magnificent scenery on the continent. While more than 200 cruises set sail from Seattle for Alaska and the Pacific Northwest each summer, the city does not sit on the ocean. Starbucks was born here (an outpost at Pike Place Market retains the first store's original look) and the city brims with branches of that now-worldwide chain along with dozens of independent coffeehouses with steadfast followers. it just seems like more rain because Seattle's drizzly weather lingers longer.Īll the buzz about Seattle's love affair with coffee is real. Seattle's average annual precipitation is below what falls from the sky in Boston, Houston, New York City and Washington, D.C. ![]() And while there are many gray, wet days in Seattle, it rains less here than most visitors have been led to believe. The largest and most densely populated city in Washington State, Seattle is known as the Emerald City, in recognition of its lush evergreens and plentiful public green spaces that include an old growth forest, a converted military base, and parks built over freeways.Īll that green is a byproduct of the temperate marine climate. ![]()
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