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Your best bet for an uninterrupted walk or jog if you're staying downtown is
this fringe of lawn and trees along Elliott Bay that starts next to the Olympic Sculpture
Park and continues as far as the Interbay area between Queen Anne and Magnolia.
The park (sometime erroneously called Elliott Bay Park) was named after a Seattle
councilor and environmental campaigner in the 1960s and the path that runs through it
is a favorite of joggers and power-walkers pursuing lunchtime fitness. In warm weather,
the linked paths, with stupendous views over the Sound to the Olympic Mountains,
make a good place for a picnic (eagles are sometimes spotted). Halfway through the
park a large, distinctive grain terminal bridges the walkway.
CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
COLLEGE
( 800-726-2787; 1000 Lenora St; Westlake & 9th)
The south campus of the ornamental
Cornish College of the Arts, built in 1921, has survived many bouts of debt and is now
a top-notch school for music, art, dance and drama.
Seattle Center
CHIHULY GARDEN & GLASS
MUSEUM
See
Click here
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SPACE NEEDLE
LANDMARK
See
Click here
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EMP MUSEUM
MUSEUM
See
Click here
.
BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION VISITOR CENTER
VISITOR CENTER
(440 5th Ave N; 10am-5pm Tue-Sat; Seattle Center)
SF
The generous actions
of the world's most unselfish billionaire are eloquently displayed at this suitably high-
tech visitor center (part of the larger foundation building), which opened opposite the
Space Needle in February 2012.
