Archive for August, 2010

1. Chittenden Locks built in 1911; these locks offer a fascinating lesson in technology from days gone by. The seven-acre Carl English Botanical Gardens present nearly 2,000 varieties of plant life.
2. Pike Place Market Situated along the water is Seattle’s heartbeat; a protected historic district that inundates you with sights, sounds, smells, and the best people-watching in town.
3. Mount Rainier National Park offers a multitude of summer and winter activities. Hundreds of miles of hiking trails wind through dense forests and barren, above-timberline terrain, past placid lakes and tumbling streams. In winter, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing are pastimes of choice.
4. Woodland Park Zoo spread across 65 acres, houses more than 1000 animals from 290 species and draws over a million visitors annually.
5. Space Needle at 605 feet is one of the area’s better-known landmarks that offer breathtaking views from its observation deck at 520 feet.
6. Northwest Trek Wildlife Park has a 50-minute tram ride that meanders through this 715-acre park, a nice way to spot more than 200 types of wildlife: snowy owls, river otters, bald eagles, lynxes, gray wolves, cougars, grizzly and black bears, and bobcats.
7. Seattle Art Museum Downtown, houses displays of Native American, African, and European art.
8. Seattle Aquarium shelters a host of marine life, highlighting creatures found in the Pacific Northwest. One of the facility’s most intriguing features is an underwater dome where visitors can watch fish and sea mammals swim around them.
9. Museum of Glass; Drawn in by a soaring 90-foot steel cone that forms the building’s core, visitors are treated not only to a lively exhibition schedule but also to the Hot Shop Amphitheater, a working glass studio where the intricate, painstaking process of glassmaking may be observed.
10. Seattle Asian Art Museum houses an extensive collection of pan-Asian art, focusing especially on works from India, Japan, and Korea.

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