Seattle city travel guide
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ETG Tip: Hire a car and take a trip to nearby Mount Rainer National Park or Anacortes to see the Orcas.
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Top 8 Seattle City Districts - Lonely Planet PDF
1. Seattle - Beltown & Seattle Center (Chapter) Lonely Planet
Belltown gained a reputation for trendsetting nightlife (read: grunge) in the 1990s, but these days it's more renowned for its 100-plus restaurants. The adjacent Seattle Center's frequent makeovers have kept it vital and relevant.
2. Seattle - The CD, Madrona & Madison Park (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
Seattle's Central District (CD), traditionally an African American neighborhood, has been augmented by an influx of Ethiopian immigrants, creating what some have dubbed Little Ethiopia. Madison Park and Madrona are upscale lakeside communities with popular beaches.
3. Seattle - Capitol Hill & First Hill (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
Capitol Hill is Seattle's best quarter for a spontaneous night out, a locavore lunch or an evening drag show. More straitlaced First Hill is home to an art museum and multiple hospitals.
4. Seattle - Freemont & Green Lake (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
Fremont pitches young hipsters among old hippies in an unlikely urban alliance, with junk shops, urban sculpture and a healthy sense of its own ludicrousness. Family-friendly Green Lake is a more affluent suburb favored by fitness devotees.
5. Seattle - Pioneer Square & International District (Chapter) Lonely Planet
Seattle's birthplace retains the grit of its 'Skid Row' roots with historic redbrick architecture and rambunctious street life. The International District (ID) is a scruffy quarter known for its dim sum restaurants and Little Saigon.
6. Seattle - Downton, Pike Place & Waterfront (Chapter) Lonely Planet
Downtown is a standard American amalgam of boxy skyscrapers and brand-name shopping opportunities that's given welcome oomph by Pike Place Market, the city's number-one must-see. The waterfront is undergoing a slow regeneration.
7. Seattle - U District (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
This neighborhood of young, studious out-of-towners places the beautiful, leafy University of Washington campus next to the shabbier 'Ave,' an eclectic strip of cheap boutiques, dive bars and ethnic restaurants.
8. Seattle - Queen Anne & Lake Union (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
Salubrious Queen Anne hoards old money in beautiful fin-de-siècle mansions. Lake Union's southern shores are changing more quickly than the fresh-faced influx of techies can tweet about them, with celebrity chefs, a traffic-lightening streetcar and the sprawling new Amazon offices.
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