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Rent a vacation rental home in Seattle, Washington, United States. This pacific northwest area hosts many urban attractions including the Space Needle, Pike Place Market, Woodland Park Zoo, and the Seattle Aquarium. Seattle is situated on the shores of two large lakes and Puget Sound, with more remote wilderness activities less than an hour away. Rent holiday lodging directly from owners of home, apartment and condo accommodations in Seattle, WA, USA.
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Seattle's Favorite Tourist Attractions
Seattle has many unique and exciting attractions to offer tourists. Visitors enjoy ethnic foods, fresh produce, colorful flowers, and regional handicrafts at Pike Place Market. A trip to the top of the Space Needle, a local icon, reveals 360-degree views that include the Olympic and Cascade Mountains, Puget Sound, Mount Rainier, and Lake Washington. Both attractions are favorites for Seattle natives and visitors.
Interactive Music Museum
Experience Music Project (EMP), an interactive music museum featuring American popular music and rock 'n' roll, is one of Seattle's newer attractions. Located in Seattle Center, EMP is the brainchild of Paul Allen, Microsoft-cofounder and well-known figure in the Pacific Northwest. Allen's passion for all things Jimi Hendrix led to an extensive collection of Hendrix memorabilia. His initial desire to share this collection with the public grew in scope to become the Experience Music Project.
Today's EMP mission is to inform and inspire visitors of all ages about the roots and future of American music.
Guests will be treated to a wide variety of interactive and multimedia experiences. They will have the opportunity to view portions of EMP's collection of close to 80,000 artifacts, including stage costumes and instruments from such popular American music icons as Bob Dylan and Kurt Cobain.
Among the museum's many attractions is Sky Church, a dramatic hall where a "video frieze" spans one large wall. Guests will be able to try their hand at making music in EMP's Sound Lab. Other offerings include the Digital Lab, the Guitar Gallery, a performance stage, the Liquid Lounge night club, and the Turntable restaurant.
Located just north of downtown Seattle in Seattle Center, EMP is housed in a wild, freeform building designed by Frank O. Gehry. The exterior has sections comprised of blue and red painted aluminum and of stainless steel that has received purple, silver, and golden finishes. The museum's facilities include a full-service restaurant and a retail store, as well as an after-hours nightclub featuring live music. Seattle's Monorail passes through the structure. Designed to represent the fluid nature of music, the unconventional appearance of the building has been the object of much in the region. Everyone agrees, however, that the opportunity to "experience music" will attract visitors and will be a tremendous asset to the Seattle community.
The new Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame will be co-located with Experience Music Project.
Boeing Factory Tour:
From Angela M. Brown,
Visitors can get an up-close view of real airplane manufacturing by visiting the Boeing Everett Tour Center. The Everett facility builds Boeing's twin-aisle models - 747s, 767s, and 777s. A lot of space is required to assemble these huge planes; the Everett hangar has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as being the largest building in the world, by volume.
The Boeing factory tour includes:
A short video presentation
A bus ride to the assembly building
An escorted visit to a balcony overlooking the airplane manufacturing floor
A bus ride to the actual flight line, where nearly-completed airplanes receive their final work and testing.
Lonely Planet:
Orientation
Seattle is situated in the west of Washington, the northwestern-most state in the 'lower 48'. The largest city in the state, Seattle sits on a skinny slip of land between the Puget Sound and Lake Washington. Lake Union and the Lake Washington Ship Canal divide the city into northern and southern halves; downtown and the Capitol Hill and Queen Anne neighborhoods lie south of the canal, with the U District to the northeast.
Compared to the rest of the city, downtown orientation is pretty straightforward. Historic Pioneer Square contains most of the must-see sites. Seattle Center, home to many of the city's cultural and sporting facilities, is just northwest of downtown. Alaskan Way is the Waterfront's main drag. Interstate 5 runs north-south through the city centre.
Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport is 21km (13mi) south of the city. Amtrak trains use the King St Station, north of the new Seahawks stadium, just south of Pioneer Square. Greyhound's bus terminal is at 8th Ave and Stewart St, on the northern fringe of downtown. Green Tortoise buses leave from behind the Greyhound depot.
Attractions
Capitol Hill
Inlaid brass dance steps along Broadway propel you into a rumba or a tango (actually, it's public art), but you'll never see a local learning the steps. And that's about as aesthetic as the streets get. Unlike other parts of the city, it's the throngs of people and not the buildings that really set Capitol Hill apart from other neighbourhoods. Long a counterculture oasis, there are probably more nose rings on Capitol Hill than anywhere else in the Northwest. Also the principal gay and lesbian neighbourhood in Seattle, the area exudes an unmatched creative vitality.
Broadway - dotted with atmospheric eateries and drinkeries - is the neighbourhood's main strip. With its multitudes of sweets shops and cafes, it's also a fine place to develop sugar and caffeine habits. For some divine accompaniment with your indulgence, sit close to St Marks Cathedral, where a chorus performs Gregorian chants on Sunday nights. South of Broadway is the hip Pike/Pine Corridor, a nightlife hotspot of all-night coffeehouses, live-music clubs and rowdy, smoke-filled bars. If you're looking for late night action, this is one of Seattle's most lively scenes. Capitol Hill is a mile (2km) northeast of downtown and connected to the city centre by bus.
Pike Place Market
For a hungry traveller on a budget, Seattle has no greater attraction than the Pike Place Market. Nearly a century old, Pike Place is one of Seattle's most popular landmarks, as famous for the theatrics of its boisterous vendors as it is for its vastly appealing edibles.
Its most popular buildings are the Main and North arcades, with their artfully arranged banks of produce, and fresh fish, crabs and mollusks piled high on ice.
The best bet for enjoying the market is to go on an uncrowded weekday morning. Wander slowly, sample frequently and remember to keep your eyes peeled for flying fish: the fishmongers hurtle huge salmon between their stalls at breakneck speeds!
Queen Anne
Rising above Seattle Center is Queen Anne - a neighbourhood of majestic red-brick houses and apartment buildings, sweeping lawns manicured to perfection and gorgeous views of the city and bay. Queen Anne is not nearly as established as other neighbourhoods, but it does have cafes, trendy music clubs and some old-time Seattle entertainment. The main reason to visit is to check out the view. The observatory deck at 3rd Ave and Highland Drive is the best spot for it, especially at night or sunset. Queen Anne is just over a mile (2km) northwest of downtown and has frequent bus connections to the city centre.
Seattle Center
The 1962 World's Fair brought in nearly 10 million visitors from around the world for a glimpse of Tomorrow, Seattle-style. What remains of the futuristic enclave of exhibition halls, arenas and public spaces is today called the Seattle Center. Don't be surprised if it generates more nostalgia for The Jetsons than thoughts of the future.
No other icon epitomises Seattle as well as the Space Needle, a 183m (600ft) rocket-styled observation station and restaurant. After the 43-second zip up its elevators to the top, the brave of stomach are treated to breathtaking 360° views. A 2.5km (1.5mi) experiment in mass transit, the monorail is another signature piece of the 1962 fair. Today, it provides fun and frequent transport between downtown and Seattle Center, covering the distance in only two minutes.
The U District
The University of Washington campus sits at the edge of a busy commercial area known as the U District. The main streets here - University Way, commonly called 'the Ave,' and NE 45th St - are chock-a-block with cheap restaurants and cafes, arthouse cinemas and student-filled bars. It's less a throwback to the 1960s as it was in days past, but the bustle is no less satisfying.
'U Dub,' as most people refer to the university, is a lively place that's definitely worth touring - especially in spring, when pink and orange flowered azaleas paint the campus in brilliant hues. Burke Museum keeps a good collection of dinosaur skeletons, but its real treasures are its Indian artefacts, especially the collection of cedar canoes and totem poles. The school's fine-art showspace, Henry Art Gallery, mounts some of Seattle's most intelligent 20th-century art exhibits.
Just south of the Lake Washington ship canal, university-run Washington Park Arboretum features 5500 different plant species within 200ac (80ha) of mature forest and gardens. At the southern edge of the arboretum is the Japanese Garden, a collection of koi pools, waterfalls and manicured plantings. Bird watching is popular at the northern end of the arboretum, as are canoeing, fishing and swimming.
The U District is 3mi (5km) northeast of downtown and accessible by bus.
Events
Seattle's first big ethnic festival is Chinese New Year, held in the International District, usually in January. Pioneer Square embraces its somewhat rowdy reputation on Mardi Gras (usually in late February), adding in that special Seattle touch via the annual competitive Spam-Carving Contest. Seattle's main gay pride event is the Freedom Day Celebration, which is usually held the last Sunday in June. The Northwest Folklife Festival takes over Seattle Center during Memorial Day weekend, the last weekend in May, when 5000 performers and artists present the music, dance, craft and food of over 100 countries.
Seattle has two spectacular summer festivals that, more than any other events, bring the city to life. The first, Seafair, is an extravagant three-week celebration in July and early August featuring hydroplane races on Lake Washington, a torchlight parade downtown, an airshow, lots of music, a carnival and the arrival of the naval fleet. Bumbershoot, held at Seattle Center over Labor Day weekend (in early September), features an arts & crafts street fair, fine art exhibitions and an amazing assortment of theatrical and musical events. As autumn rolls around and thoughts turn to earthier matters, the Western Washington Fair presents a bewildering array of livestock and agricultural displays, another carnival and live entertainment. It's held in Puyallup, south of Seattle, in mid-September.
Activities
Nearby Green Lake Park is a favorite with swimmers and windsurfers in summer, and the paths that line Green Lake are often alive with joggers.
In good weather, the surface of Lake Union offers fine sailing, as well as sea and white-water kayaking. The Waterfront Activities Center on the University of Washington campus rents canoes and rowboats.
Seattle is fortunate to have several ski areas within easy drive of the city. Closest are the ski slopes at Snoqualmie Pass and Stevens Pass, 80 miles (125km) east of Seattle, and Crystal Mountain, 75 miles (121km) southeast of town near Mt Rainier. If you don't have a vehicle or don't want to face the drive, ski buses leave from several locations in the Seattle area.
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