Colman Dock extends into Elliott Bay as a expansive, modern multimodal terminal. Scottish engineer James Colman first built a wharf on this site in eighteen eighty-two to serve coal bunkers, but the Great Seattle Fire of eighteen…
Waterfront and Olympic Sculpture
This scenic shoreline walk follows historic timber piers, bustling ferry docks, and the monumental public art of the Olympic Sculpture Park. You will enjoy sweeping views of the Olympic Mountains while tracing Seattle's evolution from a rugged seaport to a modern metropolis.
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1. Colman Dock
2. Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop is distinguished by the massive, weathered whale jawbones often seen near its entrance and a front window packed with taxidermy, specimen jars, and historic curiosities. Founded in eighteen ninety-nine by Joseph…
3. The Seattle Great Wheel
The Seattle Great Wheel rises one hundred seventy-five feet above the surface of Elliott Bay, where it stands at the edge of Pier Fifty-seven. It is the only Ferris wheel in the United States built over water, extending forty feet out…
4. Seattle Aquarium
The Seattle Aquarium occupies Pier Fifty-Nine, a structure extending directly over the waters of Elliott Bay. Originally constructed in nineteen oh five as a commercial fishing warehouse, the pier operates today as a designated city…
5. Pier 62
Pier Sixty-two is a one-acre public space on the Seattle waterfront defined by its open, flat concrete deck and a floating dock that reaches directly into Elliott Bay. Built upon one hundred and seventy-five steel piles, the pier replaced…
6. The Edgewater Hotel
The Edgewater Hotel sits directly over the waters of Elliott Bay, making it the only hotel in Seattle built on a pier. Constructed for the nineteen sixty-two Century Twenty-One World’s Fair, it occupies the site of the former…
7. Olympic Sculpture Park
The Olympic Sculpture Park is defined by a continuous, Z-shaped path that descends from the edge of the downtown street grid down to the Elliott Bay waterfront. This nine-acre site, operated by the Seattle Art Museum, functions as an…