Seattle

SEATTLESTARTER

Market Corner to the Sound

≈ 2,000 steps1.0 mi · about 2 hoursStarter · 3 stops · 500 credStart where you live.

Start under the clock at the market's front door, walk the bluff past two cedar totem poles, and finish at the red steel sculpture above the water. About two hours on foot, best in the morning before the market crowds.

SEATTLESTARTER

The Needle and the Hill That Frames It

≈ 3,000 steps1.4 mi · about 2.5 hoursStarter · 3 stops · 500 credStart where you live.

Walk the grounds of the 1962 World's Fair, stand at the foot of the tower, then climb Queen Anne Hill to the lookout where the whole skyline lines up. About two and a half hours on foot; reach Kerry Park for dusk.

SEATTLESTANDARD

Locks, Bells and a Sunset Beach

≈ 1,800 steps + 2.6 mi by car0.8 mi on foot · about 4.5 hoursStandard · 4 stops · 600 credOne trip earns it.

Watch boats rise and fall at the locks, walk the old Scandinavian fishing town of Ballard, and end on a Puget Sound beach facing the Olympic Mountains at sunset. About half a day, with one short bus ride or drive to the beach.

SEATTLESTANDARD

The Troll, the Rocket and the Old Gasworks

≈ 2,500 steps1.2 mi · about 3.5 hoursStandard · 4 stops · 600 credOne trip earns it.

Walk the neighbourhood that calls itself the centre of the universe: a troll under a bridge, a rocket on a corner, a cast crowd waiting for a tram, and a rusted gas plant turned into a park on Lake Union. About half a day on foot.

SEATTLESTANDARD

Where the City Began

≈ 2,500 steps1.2 mi · about 4 hoursStandard · 5 stops · 600 credOne trip earns it.

Start at the big wheel on the waterfront, walk into the brick streets of Pioneer Square where Seattle was first built, and end under the gate into Chinatown-International District for lunch. About half a day on foot.

SEATTLEADVANCED

Between the Sound and the Mountain

≈ 6,500 steps + 181 mi by car3.0 mi on foot · 2 days or more · + the walk in to 1 stopAdvanced II · 9 stops · 800 credGetting there is not the hard part.

Two days by car: a lighthouse point and the Alki shore on the Sound, a big waterfall and a cliff-top ledge in the foothills, a glass bridge in Tacoma, then waterfalls and alpine meadows on Mount Rainier. The park charges an entrance fee, and the Paradise road closes at night in winter.

SEATTLEADVANCED

Library, Legends and the Campus Fountain

≈ 11,000 steps5.2 mi · a full dayAdvanced · 7 stops · 800 credGetting there is not the hard part.

A full day across the city's hills: a glass library downtown, Jimi Hendrix on Broadway, a stone ring framing the Needle, the Lee family graves, the ship canal and the university's long view to Mount Rainier. Uses light rail or a bus between neighbourhoods.