Seattle Travel and Tourism Guide

Seattle. The Emerald City. A city with character, full of outdoor enthusiasts, artists, and coffee lovers.

Local Seattle residents are friendly and there are plenty of things to keep you busy for a week and plenty of world renowned restaurants.

You can walk to most places in Downtown and Capitol Hill, but you'll need the bus or a car to reach other neighborhoods. The Space Needle at the Seattle Center provides a 360 degree breath taking view of the Seattle metro area, including Puget Sound, Olympic Mountains and Mt Rainier.

Walk north of the piers and see the new Seattle Art Museum sculpture park and Myrtle Edwards Park. Take a ferry ride across Elliot Bay to one of the neighboring islands and the possibility of seeing Orcas or views of the Olympic mountains.

The underground tour provides a view of the city before the Great Fire, which was actually built several feet below the existing side walks. Coffee fiends will rejoice because Seattle is where Starbucks, Tullys, and Seattle's Best are based. You will never be far from a coffee shop and can visit the first ever Starbucks location in Pike Place market, where you can watch men fling fish and shop for all sorts of fresh and prepared foods, art and trinkets.

Contrary to popular belief, Dallas, Miami and Chicago among others have a lot more rain than Seattle. Official Seattle statistics are an average of 140 days of measurable rain per year. Seattle does exceed 200 days of clouds in a year, however.