The newly updated Elliot Bay Trail is stunning! Many places to sit and enjoy the views. Also a couple areas close to the waters edge. If you're brave you could take a dip. Not me! I appreciate the designated pathway for walkers and one for cyclists. Not everyone follows the rules but mostly everyone does. A new coffee shop is also on the pathway with gender neutral bathrooms. Even an attendant making sure folks line up and the bathroom stays clean. Wow. Views are amazing too! Across Elliot Bay. And watching the cruise ships is always fun. What a wonderful way to spend the better part of the day. Do it! Live your life! SYOY! read more

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Beautiful park right by the water. I enjoyed a nice run here with views of the water, mountains and city. I ran towards the downtown Seattle waterfront. Super clean read more

This review is long overdue...On my last day in Seattle back in May, my colleagues and I explored the city. One of our favorite places was the Elliott Bay Trail. It's a long-paved trail that runs alongside the water, so the view was very beautiful. Keep following the trail and eventually you will pass Olympic Sculpture Park and then make your way to the pier. We walked all along this trail to get to our restaurant next to the Big Wheel. I forgot how many miles the trail was, but we enjoyed the view, so time really flew by! read more

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Trail Series, Part 25 While there are many opportunities to access the Elliott Bay Trail, we prefer to enter at the corner of Alaskan Way and Broad Street. This trail is entirely paved, really flat, well traveled, and offers terrific views of the downtown Seattle skyline, Elliott Bay, and the Space Needle. It welcomes walkers/runners, cyclists, and leashed dogs. Although the trail has portions that are to be shared by walkers/runners and cyclists, there are also portions where those paths are bifurcated and run parallel to one another. While this distinction may not be significant to many, it certainly is to some. Dana and I haven't forgotten our first run on this trail several years ago. Apparently we had ventured onto the bicycle section at one point and someone (who we spontaneously labeled "angry bike guy") immediately unleashed a quite loud and profane verbal tirade upon us. While this trail probably isn't your best option if you're seeking a quiet and serene venue for a walk/run/ride, the sunset opportunities here are tremendous. We hope that you choose to try this trail when you're in Seattle. If you do, just be aware that "angry bike guy" might still be lurking somewhere with that super short fuse of his already lit. And that's...Henry's Take. #seattletrails #seattlerunning #angrybikeguy read more

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Parts of the Elliott Bay Trail are quite nice, such as the sculpture garden, but as you head north it gets less consistently nice the closer you get to the Bridge Ramp. Starting off at the Olympic Sculpture Park, the trail is clean and the hills are green and it's an overall lovely walk. Moving up the trail, Centennial Park aims to be a community park, but doesn't quite have the funding to achieve it and is fairly run down in several sections with no restrooms or easy way to cross the tracks. Expedia has recently put quite a lot of money into Elliott Bay Park, so the parts of the trail that touch that area have a glossy tech cleanness to them that's quite beautiful but there's a steep jagged drop in safety and cleanliness that's palpable once you pass the Shell Recharge Charging Station. From there, the trail takes this huge unnecessary loop northward instead of just following the bridge ramp west over to Magnolia. As we neared the ramp it felt so unsafe that we ended up getting picked up by an Uber, so I don't know that we'll ever actually follow the trail all the way up and over. At the end of the day, while the Elliott Bay Trail lacks the consistently of the Burke Gilman Trail, it adjoins much nicer parks and is an overall more pleasant walk. read more

The Elliot Bay Trail is a long stretch from the Seattle Waterfront to Magnolia. There's a specific bike lane for the portions that I visited (possibly the entire length too but not sure), which we like a lot because I'm on foot and we prefer not to share the walking path with bikes, no offense to anyone. The portion I was on during this visit is northbound from Myrtle Edwards Park, to Centennial Park, before ending at Elliot Bay Park where Expedia is located and doing a u-turn. Expedia also funded some of the restoration and remodeling of this trail. There used to be not much here along this stretch, except perhaps homeless people. Amongst these 3 parks, the Myrtle Edwards Park is the southmost, adjacent to Olympic Sculptures Park, and is the most busy, frequented by tourists and locals alike, especially since many visitors started at Pike Place Market, so most folks tend to look around a bit and turn around. For locals, I suggest walking to Centennial Park to see the rose garden (if there are roses) and enjoying a more peaceful, quieter walk. If you walk past the Grand Terminal and the fishing pier, when you u-turn and walk south again, you'll be treated with views of Space Needle, Seattle Great Wheel, the stadiums, and Mount Rainier in the distance. So worth it! read more

Elliott Bay Trail - See the many landmarks in the distance. Grain terminal, Space Needle, Seattle Great Wheel, Lumen Field, T-Mobile Park, half of Mount Rainier - Parks Near Me - Seattle, Washington

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While on vacation in Seattle, we were taking a stroll in the Queen Anne neighborhood and started walking west towards where the waterfront should be. At first, it wasn't easy to find where the access of the waterfront was. That is until we reached an overpass walkway that we saw a few others walking, jogging, biking, or hovering on. Knowing that this would lead to somewhere closer we follow that direction, but had no idea how beautiful this park would be! I might also be partial because we were in Seattle during one of the most beautiful times of the year which made it all the more special. There were many people picnicking, jogging, biking, hovering, walking their dogs, etc. It was a beautiful scene. During this moment, it was the evening time and the sun was at the perfect position in the sky right over the sound. This park is very walkable all the way to downtown Seattle if you're ambitious enough. We almost did from Queen Anne neighborhood. Totally worth it! read more

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Beautiful views and a really nice and well kept park! Perfect for biking in the summer and leisure walks. Dogs are also welcomed here.

Elliott Bay Trail, mostly called the "down by the water walk," is one of those urban walks taken for granted by residents of a city. I strolled this 5 mile "sidewalk" (Trail in New Yorkese) years ago, before it was groomed and before I had any inclination I would live anywhere west of the Mississippi. It was empty back then, and in some ways nicer, but that doesn't detract from the pleasure of having a planned walk along the water, a five minute stroll from downtown. It is very reminiscent of the Hudson River Park in NYC, a favorite of mine. Views of Puget Sound, snow capped mountains, and ferries moving back and forth to Bainbridge Island never get old. Sure, the dot com, cookie cutter, robotic, headphone wearing, oblivious work force will abound, but just look west and concentrate on nature. The views have soul, even if the people don't. You will pass through sculpture gardens, kid's parks, iconic Seattle structures, until you arrive at the monstrosity called the Expedia campus. Eyes Left! Don't look! The architecture is horrific. Well, there is no architecture. Cross Garfield, and the walk becomes less salubrious, but maybe more interesting. Eventually, you end up back at water's edge in front of the Seattle Yacht Club. Stop for a few minutes; have a cocktail, a glass of wine, a hydrating glass of water, and realize how lucky you are to live in Seattle and can afford a lifestyle most people in the world only dream about. read more

This is the hidden gem in Belltown. Away from the traffic, the market, the downtown buildings and alleyways is this beautiful 11 acre shoreline park. You would never think to look for it since it's currently surrounded by tons of fences and construction for the Olympic Park. This stretch of park is a wonderful paved park for bikes, skates, boards, runners and walkers. A beautiful view of the water, the mountains, the port and the city. You can watch the trains go by, the boats pull in and the planes overhead. A few benches, tables, and restrooms along the way. Even a rose garden in the middle of it all. An added bonus is the fishing pier and tackle shop open during the season. A nice short place to exercise and not even crowded on the weekends. I saw a bald eagle while skating there. read more

Elliott Bay Trail - Parks Near Me - Seattle, Washington

If, like some people, I had nowhere better to sleep than Elliott Bay Park, I would doubtless go in miserable and come out miserabler. But since in fact I have an apartment not too far from there, where I can sleep in comfort and security, while I have sometimes wished I had brought gloves (or a raincoat, or hat, or shorts instead of jeans), I have never entered the park without emerging in an improved state. I have run in one end happy and walked out the other happier. I have stalked in railing against my fate and trudged out melancholy but resigned. I have meandered my way there in absence of mind, and stridden out full of energy and purpose. And there was at least the one time when I walked in ignorant of grain transportation and came out again at least slightly better informed. I try always to live near a waterfront park, and this is the best one so far. read more

A decent stretch/strip of waterfront ideal for jogging or cycling from Pike Place to Magnolia, particularly if you're located downtown, and would rather not fend with lights, crosswalks, and bezerko drivers. From the Space Needle area, the trails can be conveniently accessed with a pedestrian overpass at 3rd Avenue. For muscle-beach aficionados, a chin-up, dip and curl setup is tucked alongside the trail. I did a few chin-ups today whilst a homeless man observed from a nearby bench. read more

Nice long clean trial. Great for family walks, dog walks, Bike ride, romantic walk, lunch on the grass or rocks.