Seattle Real Estate Information

Where the Duwamish River meets Elliot Bay and the Puget Sound lays the Emerald City, Seattle, Washington.  Surrounded by mountain vista, blue water, and green hills, Seattle is a culturally diverse city that sits in one of the most beautiful areas in the United States. 

The Olympic Mountains with their snowy glacier caps lay to the west and provide a spectacular vista, on those clear blue sunny days, and a picture perfect foreground for the setting sun and a backdrop for a day of sites and shopping at the Pike Place Market.  The Cascade Mountains, stretching for Canada to Oregon, lay to the east and provide a playground for sporting and camping enthusiasts with hiking, mountain climbing, and skiing in the winter and spring.  (Snow seldom falls in Seattle proper and instead falls in the Cascade’s, 60 miles to the east.)  Two of the most famous Cascade peaks are Mt. Rainer and Mt. Baker.

Seattle is defined by hills, water and lush green landscapes.  Seattle’s downtown is surrounded by Queen Anne Hill, Magnolia Hill and Lake Union to the north, Capitol Hill, First Hill and Beacon Hill to the east, West Seattle Hill and Elliot Bay lay to the west and across Elliot Bay and the Puget Sound, a short ferry ride away, are Bainbridge Island, Bremerton, and the Olympic Peninsula.  Lake Washington, a 25 mile long and up to 2 mile wide lake lies east of the surrounding hills and separates Seattle from the city of Bellevue.  The south end of Seattle is marked by Pioneer Square, Seahawk Stadium and Safeco Field, home of the Mariners, and docks for one of the largest container ports on the west coast.  (This is also the west most point of Interstate 90 whose eastern end is in Boston.)

Across the street, as it were, from the sky scrappers of downtown is Seattle Center.  Once the site of the 1960 Worlds Fair, Seattle Center is now the home of the:  Space Needle, Pacific Science Center, Repertory Theater, Opera, Ballet, and the Key Arena which hosts Seattle SuperSonics basketball.

Sixty miles farther south is Mt. Rainer looming ever present over the city. 

At 14,410 feet, Mount Rainier is the most prominent peak in the Cascade Range and visible from many location around Seattle.  http://www.nps.gov/mora/

Around Seattle are a number of smaller cities and towns include Everett, Monroe, Renton, Tukwila, Redmond, Woodinville, and Issaquah to name a few.  Lake Sammamish is a 10 mile long lake 8 miles east of Lake Washington with a state park located at its southern end.

Where east meets west is a great cultural description of Seattle.  There are a broad range of Asian cultures (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Malaysian, and Vietnamese) and a strong Scandinavian and Northern European culture.  South American, Mexican, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cultures are a few of the many present in the area.

When you get tired of being outside, there are the many live theaters including the Intiman, Seattle Rep, Northwest Ballet and Seattle Opera and their famous Wagner Ring Cycle (http://www.seattleopera.org/wagner/)  to name but a few.  The Seattle Film Festival provides the latest world movies in the spring the Fremont district shows free movies on a building wall during summer Saturdays.

And then there are the San Juan Islands, accessible by state ferry or seaplane, and Tacoma and the Museum of Glass (http://www.museumofglass.org/s99_home.jsp), restaurants, so many different restaurants, summer Street Fairs, the Bellevue Arts and Crafts Fair (hugh!!), the Experience Music Project (http://www.emplive.com/) and Olympia with the state capitol buildings.

Ocean Shores on the Pacific Coast is easily reached for a weekend of sand and sun.  Long Beach, a 30 mile long peninsula of sand and surf, is located in the southwest corner of the state.

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