Seattle Gems and Walk Discoveries

Welcome to my "Walking Seattle blog." This post lists some of my favorite Seattle sights and experiences. The post immediately prior to this provides an index of walks by neighborhood. The 2010 through 2014 posts document each walk. I hope you get to visit some of these neighborhoods and enjoy them as much as I did. Happy walking!!! In 2022, I started revisiting Seattle neighborhoods and blogging about the changes. My new blog is walkingseattleagain.blogspot.com.

• 12th Avenue S Viewpoint
• Admiral Way Viewpoint
• Alki Point Lighthouse
• Arboretum Waterfront Trail and Azalea Way in Bloom
• Aurora Bridge (views from)
• Avenue of Stars at Constellation Park in West Seattle
• Ballard’s Hirem M. Chittenden Locks, Carl S. English Botanical Gardens, Commodore Park in Magnolia and Ballard Corners Park
• Beacon Hill Light Rail Station Artwork
• Beacon Hill’s Lighthouse's Ethel L. Dupar Fragrant Garden
• Beacon Hill’s Seattle Children's Playgarden
• Belltown P-Patch and Cottages (and writers in residence program)
• Birthplace of Seattle Monument at Alki
• Blind Date A Book box (link 2) on 50th Avenue S just south of Snoqualmie
• Bradner Gardens Park
• Brandon Street Orchard
• Buddha Jewel Monastery
• Burke Gilman Trail 
• Camp Long and its Challenge and Ropes Courses
• Capitol Hill's Broadway - Tango instructions embedded in the sidewalk
• Carkeek Park’s Environmental Learning Center
• Carousel Animal decorated house at 80th Street and 11th Avenue NE
• Center for Urban Horticulture
• Cheshiahud Loop
• Chief Sealth Memorial in Tilikum Place
• Chief Sealth Trail
• City Fruit
• Coleman Residence on Nob Hill Avenue in East Queen Anne
• Colman Park
• Columbia City house landscaped with recycled building materials (near 35th & Hudson)
• Comet Lodge Cemetery
• Community Garden along the sidewalk behind St. John's Church in Phinney Ridge
• Corson Building
• Danny Woo International District Community Gardens
• Discovery Park
• Downtown Branch of the Seattle Public Library
• Dragonfly Garden
• Dunn Gardens
• Duwamish Tribal Longhouse
• Eastlake Bouledrome
• Eastlake Cornerstones
• Edith Macefield's House in Ballard
• Elliott Bay's: Centennial Park, Myrtle Edwards Park,Olympic Sculpture Park, Amgen Helix Bridge,Elliott Bay Public Fishing Pier, sculpture park pocket beach, Seattle Aquarium, Marina
• Ellsworth Storey Cottages
• Ethnic Churches
• Falcon Ridge Farm
• Fauntleroy "Ducky" cottage
• Federal Army and Navy Surplus Store
• Fin Art in Magnuson Park
• First Hill’s Stumptown Coffee Roasters for coffee tasting
• Fisherman's Terminal and Fisherman's Memorial
• Fishing Piers
• Food Forest on Beacon Hill
• Free Poetry box at 48th Avenue SW
• Freeway Estates Community Orchard
• Freeway Park
• Fremont Public Art, Sunday Market, Fair and Solstice Parade, Bridge
• Frink Park hiking trails
• Frye Art Museum
• Gardens, garden art and carved tree trunks – almost anywhere
• Gas Works Park
• Georgetown and the Georgetown Steam Plant
• Georgetown Art Attack
• Georgetown Garden Tour
• Goat Hill Giving Garden
• Golden Weeping Willow Heritage Tree at 5826 SW Spokane Street, West Seattle
• Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Cemetery
• Green Lake
• Greenwood Space Travel Supply Company
• Greenwood’s Sakya Tibetian Buddhist Monastery, Parinirvana Stupa & Prayer Wheels
• Gum Wall at Market Theatre
• Hamilton Viewpoint Park
• Hat and Boots Historic Buildings in Georgetown's Oxbow Park
• Ryan "Henry" Ward's Murals
• Herring's House Park
• History lessons on the support for the West Seattle Bridge approach along Spokane Street
• Honkfest
• Igneous Ensemble Art Park
• Inscape Seattle Arts and Cultural Center
• Interbay P-Patch
• Interlaken Park
• Ivar's clam chowder
• I-90 Bike Tunnel
• I-90 East Portal Viewpoint
• Jack Block Park
• Jackson Park Perimeter Trail
• Katie Black's Garden
• Khmer Buddhist Society facility - Mid Beacon Hill
• Kinnear Park
• Klondike Gold Rush Historical National Park - Seattle Unit
• Kobe Terrace Park
• Kubota Garden
• Kurt Cobain bench in Viretta Park
• Last Resort Fire Department
• Leschi Natural Area's spectacular views
• Little Free Library in Ballard
• Living Computer Museum and Labs
• Llandover Woods
• Magnuson Park
• Madison Park’s Samuel Hyde House (Consulate of the Russian Federation)
• Madison Poetry Project outside Mount Zion Baptist Church
• Madison Valley’s small gray horse
• Madrona Park trails
• Magnolia Park
• Manhole Cover Art
• Maple Leaf Reservoir
• Marra Farm
• Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Park
• Meadowbrook Pond
• Milk Carton Derby
• Mini Ferry from South Lake Union to UW
• The Monorail
• Neighborhood blogs
• Neighborhood History Fence around Squire Park P-Patch
• New Holly
• Northeast Seattle Tool Library
• Nora's Woods
• Occidental Park
• Old Fire Station Number 3 building near Harborview
• Olympic Sculpture Park
• Palm Trees along 3rd NW between 42nd and 43rd in Fremont
• Panama Hotel
• Parsons Memorial Gardens
• Paseo pork sandwiches
• Pavilion of Greatness in Daejeon Park
• Peace Park
• Petroleum pipelines running through Seattle
• PFI
• Piece of Cedar River Pipeline outside Seattle Public Utilities building on Airport Way
• Pier 57 Ferris Wheel
• Pike Place Market
• Pilling's Pond
• Pioneer Square - old buildings, pergola, totem pole
• Polar Bear Plunge
• Pollinator Pathway
• Port of Seattle Parks and Public Access
• Pritchard Island Community
• Q Cafe
• Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands
• Ravenna Boulevard
• REI at South Lake Union
• Re-store
• Roosevelt P-Patch Art Work
• Rotary Viewpoint West Seattle
• Rubber Duck yard art in Wedgwood (west of 35th at NE 82nd) 
• Safeco Field
• Sam Smith Park
• Seacrest Park
• Seahawks Fans - the 12th man
• Seattle Aquarium
• Seattle Center
• Seattle Chinese Garden
• Seattle Fire Department Headquarters (home to the Antique Fire Apparatus Display)
• Seattle Tilth
• Seattle Waterfall Garden (2nd Avenue and Main)
• Sferra Horse Farm
• Smith Cove Park
• Smith Tower
• The Solstice Parade
• Sounders Fans and Parade before each home game
• The Space Needle
• Tributes to slain officers in the Central Area (Antonio Terry,Timothy Brenton)
• Spirit of Youth Sculpture at Alder Academy
• Statue of Liberty at Alki Beach Park
• Stockbox Grocery
• Street Edge Alternative Project
• Street Murals at 49th & Burke and 41st & Interlaken in Wallingford
• Streissguth Gardens
• Sunny Arms
• Superbull
• Talaris Conference Center
• Theo's Chocolate Factory
• Town Hall
• U District’s Scarecrow Video
• U District’s Wall of Death
• Union Station
• Urban Forest (36th Avenue NE just north of 115^thStreet)
• Uwajimaya
• UW Campus
• Veterans' memorial cemetery and the separate religious cemeteries within Evergreen Washelli Cemetery
• Views from the Land's End Neighborhood of Magnolia
• Vintage Greenhouses
• Volunteer Park - Conservatory and Water Tower
• Wallingford Center
• Wallingford’s Poem (and Quote) Bench
• Washington Hall
• Water Taxi
• Wave Rave Cave and its nighttime lights
• Weather Watch Park
• Wedgwood Rock
• West Seattle Bee Garden http://www.westseattlebeegarden.com/
• West Seattle Bike Trails
• West Seattle Library annual seed exchange
• West Seattle’s DART (Dial A Ride Transit) Route 773 to Seacrest Park and the water taxi
• West Seattle Junction
• Whale Trail - Alki Beach sites
• Wonder Bread Sign atop Central District apartment house
• Woodland Park's lawn bowling fields
• Woodland Park Zoo
• Woonerf at 12th Avenue and James Court
• Ye Olde Curiosity Shop