Drive guide
I-5 — Everett to Olympia
170 things worth knowing along this corridor, in the order you meet them driving. Every one is sourced.
Sal reads these as you pass them, and answers when you ask.
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quirkMaytown Rest Area
The next rest area along southbound Interstate 5 beyond the Maytown Rest Area is 40 miles away.
Source: aaroads.com
historyCase Road
In 1913 the original Pacific Highway route between Olympia and Centralia followed the "middle road," today called Case Road. The road was completed in 1858 and bypassed Tenino on its way to Grand Mound.
Source: pacific-hwy.net
developmentState Route 121
In 1991 the Rochester–Maytown highway was removed from the state highway system, and SR 121 was realigned as a loop through Millersylvania State Park.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionTumwater School District
Tumwater School District No. 33 was formed on July 1, 1964, when East Olympia School District No. 327 and Tumwater School District No. 333 consolidated. Schools in the Tumwater area had been established by 1845.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionA.G. West Black Hills High School
A.G. West Black Hills High School opened in the fall of 1997. It was named after Arthur Garret West (1886-1979) for his commitment to good schools, roads, and community improvement, and after the Black Hills.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
sightTumwater West Preserve
The Tumwater West Preserve is a 67.5-acre preserve in southwest Tumwater, protected with a conservation easement acquired on June 22, 2021 to safeguard the Olympia subspecies of Mazama pocket gopher and dry prairie and grassland habitat. It is not open to the public.
Source: cnlm.org
institutionBush Middle School
Bush Middle School in Tumwater is named for the family of George and Isabella Bush, who arrived in Thurston County in 1844 among the first non-Indigenous American settlers. Bush Prairie, five miles south of Olympia, is named for the same family.
Source: olympiahistory.org
historyWashington State Capitol
The Washington State Capitol's dome, completed in 1928 after a construction saga that stalled for decades following a false start in 1893, stands 287 feet tall — the tallest self-supporting masonry dome in North America and the fifth-tallest of its kind in the world.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
sightHawks Prairie Ponds & Recharge Basins
At this 40-acre site in northeast Lacey, Class A reclaimed water from the Martin Way Reclaimed Water Plant flows through a series of five constructed wetland ponds. It then flows to shallow gravel basins, where it soaks into the soil and mixes with groundwater.
Source: lottcleanwater.org
developmentHawks Prairie
In April 1982 the real-estate branch of the Weyerhaeuser Company, with Burlington Northern, revealed plans for an industrial and residential complex called Hawks Prairie on the west side of the Nisqually Delta, for 6,000 residents and up to 20,000 jobs. Despite objections from the Nisqually Delta Association, the development was approved and the area was soon after incorporated into the City of Lacey.
Source: historylink.org
institutionRiver Ridge High School
River Ridge High School was established in 1993 to handle overflow from Timberline and North Thurston High Schools, and was named for its proximity to the ridge of the Nisqually River valley. It earned its Hawks nickname from its location in the Hawk's Prairie area off Exit 111 of Interstate 5.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyTreaty Tree
The Treaty of Medicine Creek was signed on December 26, 1854, in a grove of Douglas fir trees near the Nisqually River delta. The grove's last tree, the Treaty Tree, was dead by 1979, and its snag stood visible from the Interstate until it fell during severe windstorms in 2007.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionBilly Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
Proposals for a deep-water port facility, an aluminum mill and a landfill on the Nisqually Delta were denied, largely as a result of citizen efforts led by teacher Margaret McKenny and the Nisqually Delta Association. The refuge was established in 1974 and was renamed on December 18, 2015, to honor Nisqually Tribal leader Billy Frank, Jr.
Source: fws.gov
historyBrown farm
Seattle lawyer Alson Brown bought 2,350 acres on the western bank of the Nisqually River in 1904, built a four-mile-long dike and farmed the drained marsh until he went bankrupt in 1918. In 2009 a roughly $13 million project removed his dike, turning 762 acres of fields back into tidelands.
Source: historylink.org
historyNisqually River
The northbound bridge that carries Interstate 5 near the Nisqually River's mouth opened in 1938 for U.S. Route 99, and a southbound span followed in 1968. The bridges cross the delta on a filled causeway that altered the river's course and increased flood risk.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionWa He Lut Indian School
T. Maiselle Bridges and members of the Frank’s Landing Indian Community founded Wa He Lut Indian School in 1974. They wanted Native American children to get the education promised in the Medicine Creek Treaty.
Source: whlis.org
sightChloe Clark Statue
The Chloe Clark Statue was dedicated on July 10, 2010, the 170th anniversary of Chloe Clark's arrival at Fort Nisqually in 1840 as the first American school teacher in the Puget Sound region. The Steilacoom Historical Education Foundation's Chloe Clark Memorial Committee raised the funds and managed its construction.
Source: hmdb.org
developmentNorthwest Landing
Weyerhaeuser bought the 3,200-acre former explosives plant site from the DuPont Company in 1976, intending a wood products export facility, then turned to land development when the lumber market declined in the early 1980s. Plans for Weyerhaeuser's Northwest Landing, a residential, commercial and industrial development, were approved in 1989.
Source: dupontwa.gov
historyIafrati Park
By the mid-1860s there were 34 children in DuPont, and the first school was built in 1866, from donations by local families, on the site of Iafrati Park in the Historic Village.
Source: dupontmuseum.com
developmentSteilacoom-DuPont Road interchange
In July 2015 the Legislature funded the $495 million I-5 Mounts Road to Thorne Lane project, which widens seven miles of I-5 from DuPont to Lakewood with an HOV lane each way and rebuilds interchanges with roundabouts, grade-separated from the rail line. The rebuild of the Steilacoom-DuPont Road interchange was scheduled to be complete in late 2026.
Source: wsdot.wa.gov
historyLaughbon High School
Laughbon High School, built onto the existing DuPont School and named for longtime superintendent Wendell B. Laughbon, opened in 1961 for 10th grade, adding 11th and 12th graders in 1963 and 1964. It held its last graduation in 1973, and the building was demolished in January 1989.
Source: dupontmuseum.com
sightEdmond Marsh
The City of DuPont's 0.9-mile Edmond Marsh Trail crosses Sequalitchew Creek on a footbridge and over culverts as the creek runs through Edmond Marsh. The trail also passes the 1843 Fort Nisqually site.
Source: dupontwa.gov
historyPoint Defiance Bypass
The Northern Pacific Railway built the Lakewood–DuPont section of the line in 1891, and passenger service on it ended entirely in 1956. The route was identified as a passenger rail bypass in 1992, rebuilt from 2015, and passenger service resumed on November 18, 2021.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historySequalitchew Lake
In 1959 and 1960 the Washington Department of Fisheries used Sequalitchew Lake as a fish farm that reared and released coho salmon to Sequalitchew Creek. From 1976 until the mid-1990s the department operated a coho salmon fish hatchery and rearing facility on the lake.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
sightAmerican Lake
American Lake is a lake in Lakewood, Washington at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. It is the largest natural lake in Pierce County. There are two public parks on the large lake: American Lake North Park, and Harry Todd Park.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
quirkSilcox Island
Silcox Island is an inhabited island in American Lake in Pierce County, Washington. Silcox Island is named for Albert Silcox, who originally acquired the land. Until 1968, there was no electric or telephone service to the island.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyCoffee Strong
Coffee Strong was a GI coffeehouse based on the tradition of resistance coffee houses opened during the Vietnam War by antiwar veterans and active duty soldiers in the United States. Based in Lakewood, Washington, it was founded in 2008 by veterans returning from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was located within 300 meters of the gates at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionMadigan Army Medical Center
The hospital was named in honor of Colonel Patrick Madigan, an assistant to the U.S. Army Surgeon General from 1940 to 1943 who was also known as "The Father of Army Neuropsychiatry." On September 22, 1944, Madigan General Hospital was named in his honor.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyTacoma Country and Golf Club
Tacoma Country and Golf Club is a private golf course and country club in Tacoma, Washington. Created in 1894, it had the first golf course in the Western United States not on a military reservation (the Mare Island course opened in 1892), and is the oldest continuously operating golf club in the West.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyGravelly Lake
The lake is fed by groundwater and has no surface drainage channels. Called Cook‑al‑chy (pond lily) by the native people, the lake was named Gravelly Lake due to the gravel-covered lake bed.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionLakewood Station
Lakewood station was originally scheduled to open in 2002 as part of a Sounder extension, but plans were delayed due to funding issues and the state government's work on the Point Defiance Bypass project. Construction on the $33 million station and garage began in March 2007 and it opened for use by buses on September 18, 2008. Sounder service to Lakewood began in October 2012 and the pedestrian bridge opened a few months later.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyLake View Station
On November 3, 1885, a mob, including many of Tacoma's leading citizens, marches on the city's Chinese community and forces everyone out of their houses and out of town. This rain-drenched, weeping, terrified procession, some walking and some riding, proceeded to the Northern Pacific station at Lake View. The stationmaster sold 77 tickets to the morning train to Portland to those who could afford them. Around 3 in the morning a freight train stopped at the station and took on all those who could not afford tickets. In 1993, the Tacoma City Council passed a resolution to make amends, apologize for the former city leaders' treatment and expulsion, and appointed a citizens committee that became the Reconciliation Foundation, with its goal to "promote peace and harmony in our multicultural community."
Source: historylink.org
sightOak Tree Park
Garry Oak habitat used to be widespread in the south sound region. These ecosystems were protected and managed by Native Americans for thousands of years to stop evergreen forests from taking over these open areas. Now only a few examples remain. This park is one of those remnants.
Source: wta.org
historyPierce County Pauper Cemetery
Even then, the site offers no hint that more than 1,600 people are buried here, all laid to rest between the 1880s and 1920s in what then was the Pierce County pauper cemetery and now is a forgotten memory. Pierce County bought land for its pauper cemetery from the adjacent Tacoma Cemetery in 1885, according to a history written by the Heritage League of Pierce County. The plot also borders Oakwood Hill Cemetery on the west and the Tacoma Mausoleum on the south, forming a small historical burial district where South 52nd Street meets South Junett. In 1973, the county sold the land back to Tacoma Cemetery.
Source: heraldnet.com
sightFife Engine & Caboose
ALCO C-415 Number 684 was built in July of 1968 for the Chehalis and Western Railroad, and its log trains to the Port of Tacoma ran from 1980 to 1992. The City of Fife took possession of the engine in January of 2009, and it is on permanent display at the Fife History Museum in Dacca Park.
Source: fifewa.gov
institutionFife History Museum
The Fife History Museum and Cultural Center is located in the former home of Louis Dacca. The City of Fife acquired the home and the adjacent land the family once farmed in 2000, and that farmland became Dacca Park while the home was renovated as the museum.
Source: fifehistorymuseum.org
historyFife Memorial Fountain
In 1914 the Fife Memorial Fountain was a watering station for horses pulling wagons of rhubarb, milk and other goods, and it announced arrival in Gardenville, the early name of the Fife area before its 1957 incorporation. It was moved several times until 2016, when it got its final home mere feet from its original spot at 54th Avenue and 20th Street.
Source: fifehistorymuseum.org
historyFife High School
Fife High School was founded on December 23, 1899, as the upper grades of the general Fife School. A secondary building went up in 1904, and the high school separated from the lower grades in 1930, when its new building was completed.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historySpace Needle
The Space Needle was built for Seattle's 1962 World's Fair and stands 605 feet to its aircraft beacon; 2.65 million people visited it during the fair.
Source: spaceneedle.com
institutionMuseum of Pop Culture
On June 23, 2000, the Experience Music Project opens at Seattle Center. The museum and education center occupies a flowing polychrome pavilion designed by Frank O. Gehry (1929-2025) and inspired by Seattle-born rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970). The name will be shortened to EMP and later, following several other permutations, changed to the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP).
Source: historylink.org
quirkFremont Troll
In 1990 the Fremont Arts Council held an art competition for the area under the north end of the Aurora Bridge, hoping to replace the trash and squatters with 'a piece of art'. The winner was the Fremont Troll, built that same year by 4 artists: an 18-foot, 13,000-pound concrete troll clutching a real Volkswagen Beetle.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionCanlis
Canlis, at 2576 Aurora Ave. N. with views of Seattle, Lake Union and the Cascades, has been Seattle's family-owned fine dining restaurant since 1950.
Source: canlis.com
historyDenny Regrade (Belltown)
Denny Hill was removed in regrades between 1897 and 1930, largely with hydraulic cannons that sluiced it into Elliott Bay, lowering its high point by more than 100 feet to create the flat Denny Regrade.
Source: historylink.org
developmentBrookville Gardens Community Park
Brookville Gardens Community Park in Fife has a rust-iron bridge over the historic Wapato Creek as its entrance to the 15-acre park, and it features 19 rain gardens. The park was designed to pay homage to Wapato Creek, which begins in North Puyallup and winds through Fife to the Blair Waterway.
Source: parentmap.com
historyEcho Lake
Echo Lake, located just south of the Snohomish County border, was from 1916 to 1966 a popular bathing beach. In the early days, it cost a nickel to get in. Some kids would spend this on candy and sneak in instead. In the winter, the lake was also used for ice-skating.
Source: historylink.org
institutionOriginal Starbucks
The 'Original Starbucks' at 1912 Pike Place is the company's oldest surviving store; the first shop opened in 1971 at 2000 Western Avenue and moved to the Pike Place location in 1976.
Source: seattletimes.com
developmentOverlook Walk
Overlook Walk, opened October 4, 2024 where the Alaskan Way Viaduct once stood, is an elevated park creating the first pedestrian connection between downtown and the waterfront, bridging the nearly 100-vertical-foot gap between Pike Place Market and the new Park Promenade on Elliott Bay.
Source: harrell.seattle.gov
quirkSleepless in Seattle houseboat
The floating home at 2460 Westlake Avenue North on Lake Union was the houseboat of Sam Baldwin, Tom Hanks's character in the 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle. It is privately owned, so there are no tours inside, but fans can still see the outside.
Source: housedigest.com
institutionPike Place Market
Pike Place Market opened August 17, 1907, when crowds of shoppers met six to 12 farmers' wagons and bought them out by lunchtime; it is one of the oldest continuously operating public markets in the United States.
Source: pikeplacemarket.org
quirkGum Wall
The Gum Wall in Post Alley beneath Pike Place Market started after the Market Theater began hosting Unexpected Productions' Theatresports in 1991, when patrons stuck used gum on the walls by the theater's box office. After several cleanings, Market officials let it stay, deeming it a tourist attraction around 1999.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyLincoln High School
Lincoln High School was closed in 1981, but was re-established as a comprehensive high school in the fall of 2019, after a comprehensive renovation in 2017–2019.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
developmentAmazon Spheres
The Amazon Spheres, opened January 30, 2018 on Amazon's Seattle headquarters campus along Lenora Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, are three glass-domed spherical conservatories housing 40,000 plants and serving as an employee lounge and workspace.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionIvar's Acres of Clams
Folk singer Ivar Haglund opened Seattle's first aquarium and a fish-and-chips stand on Pier 54 in 1938, expanding to the full Ivar's Acres of Clams restaurant in 1946; his motto was 'Keep Clam' and the restaurant still operates on the pier.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionColman Dock ferries
Washington State Ferries is the largest ferry system in the United States. It has run since June 1, 1951, and its fleet is painted white with green trim. Colman Dock is its flagship Seattle terminal, serving the Bainbridge Island and Bremerton routes.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
quirkHammering Man
On September 28, 1991, Hammering Man, a 48-foot-tall metal sculpture created by Jonathan Borofsky for the entrance to the new Seattle Art Museum, falls and is damaged. In September 1992, the repaired sculpture was reinstalled in front of the Seattle Art Museum at 1st Avenue and University Street in downtown Seattle.
Source: historylink.org
institutionSeattle Art Museum
On December 5, 1991, SAM reopened in a downtown facility designed by Robert Venturi; the cost of the build was US$62 million
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionBenaroya Hall
In 1993, Jack and Becky Benaroya gave an unsolicited $15 million to the project, which triggered enthusiasm for it among other donors. The state, city, and county promised support as well. The hall was built in two years, on time and on budget at $118 million.
Source: historylink.org
institutionFederal Reserve Bank Building
Designed in 1949 by architect William Bain Sr. (1896-1985) of the firm NBBJ (Naramore, Bain, Brady and Johanson) in the Moderne style, the building's design conveys a sense permanence and security. In February 2008 the branch closed when bank operations moved to a new building in Renton.
Source: historylink.org
historyColman Building
The Colman Building in downtown Seattle was built by James M. Colman (1832-1906) in 1889. In 1904, the Colman Building was transformed. Four additional floors were added. By 1906, the new Colman Building was complete, and for a time dominated the landscape of the “Commission District” and waterfront of downtown Seattle with six stories and a full-block bulk.
Source: historylink.org
historySeattle Tower
When it was built, the designers added "more than 300 flood light units, located in the offsets, which will shoot their rays upward, while one color gradually gives way to another, producing a beautiful and effective aurora borealis, visible for miles" (Casteel). Locals called it the Northern Lights building and the company newsletter was known as the Northern Lights , then, through the 1970s, the Aurora Borealis. The aurora floodlights were dismantled in 1942, likely never to return.
Source: historylink.org
developmentHenry M. Jackson Federal Building
The Henry M. Jackson Federal Building (JFB) is a 37-story United States Federal Government skyscraper in downtown Seattle, Washington. Located on the block bounded by Marion and Madison Streets and First and Second Avenues, the building was completed in 1974 and won the Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects in 1976. Among the structures torn down to build the federal building were the Richardsonian Romanesque Burke Building (built 1889–91), the Hotel Stevens, and the Rivoli Theater, a burlesque house. In 1984, the building was rededicated and named to honor Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (1912-1983), a Democratic U.S. Congressman and Senator
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyCobb Building
The Cobb was the West Coast's first building designed expressly for physicians and dentists, and it included a bank of four high-speed elevators, additional gas and electrical service and a built-in vacuum cleaning system. A relief of Hippocrates stands guard over the building entrance.
Source: historylink.org
sightGas Works Park
Gas Works Park, on a promontory on the north shore of Lake Union, preserves remnants of the Seattle Gas Light Company's coal and oil gasification plant, which supplied the city's gas from 1906 to 1956. Landscape architect Richard Haag's design kept the plant structures; its 45-foot Great Mound, known as Kite Hill, opened in 1973 and the full park in July 1976.
Source: historylink.org
developmentWallingford Center
On the southeastern corner of this intersection is the Wallingford Center, a 53,000 square foot elementary school built in 1904 that has been renovated and converted into two floors of shopping and dining establishments with 24 studio apartments above.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyFairmont Olympic Hotel
Its construction was financed with community bonds and it stands on the original site of the University of Washington. After gathering a list of 3,906 names from the community, a committee chose The Olympic .
Source: historylink.org
developmentRainier Square Tower
Rainier Square Tower, completed in 2020, is Seattle's second-tallest building at 850 feet. It has a sloping shape that narrows toward the top, and the taper was lowered so it would not block views of the pedestal base of the Rainier Tower next door.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyPioneer Square and the Great Fire
The Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889, started when glue being heated in a cabinet shop boiled over, destroyed 29 city blocks of the central business district; the city rebuilt in brick with streets raised above the original level, creating the Seattle Underground.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
history5th Avenue Theatre
Designed by architect Robert C. Reamer (1873-1938), with interior design supervised by Gustav Liljestrom of San Francisco, the theater embraced Seattle’s growing connection to the Far East by employing a Chinese theme, debuting a full eight months before the now-famous Grauman’s (now Mann’s) Chinese Theatre in Hollywood first opened. After closing in 1978, the theater was rescued by a coalition of local companies and arts patrons, who funded a $2.6 million restoration of the classic venue.
Source: historylink.org
sightSeattle Central Library
On May 23, 2004, The Seattle Public Library opens its new Central Library at 1000 4th Avenue. Some 26,600 people come downtown on a sunny Sunday to celebrate the opening.
Source: historylink.org
historyEagles Auditorium Building
In active use by the Eagles until 1981, as a rental facility it hosted many memorable light show/dance events known as Trips Festivals during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Source: historylink.org
historyArctic Building
The nine-story building remained home to the Arctic Club until 1971. the Arctic Building was the first downtown building to use exterior color in terra cotta.
Source: historylink.org
historySmith Tower
Smith Tower, completed in 1914 at 462 feet, was the tallest building west of the Mississippi at completion and remained the tallest on the West Coast until the Space Needle in 1962.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyHylebos Creek
Hylebos Creek is named after Peter Francis Hylebos, a Catholic priest born in Belgium who founded schools and hospitals in Washington Territory.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyFirst United Methodist Church
The church, occupied by the oldest Christian congregation in Seattle, is located downtown on the west side of 5th Avenue between Marion and Columbia streets (811 5th Avenue) Construction began in 1907 and enough of the church was complete to hold sermons in it the following year. The Beaux Arts style sanctuary, with its 66-foot high interior ceiling, brick and terra cotta façade, and orange tile-covered central dome was completed and dedicated in 1910.
Source: historylink.org
institutionRainier Club
The Rainier Club is Seattle's oldest private club, established in 1888 when Washington was still a territory. On September 30, 1904, the Rainier Club, designed by Spokane architects Kirtland Cutter and Karl Malgren, opened its doors.
Source: historylink.org
developmentColumbia Center
On March 2, 1985, the first tenants occupy the 76-story Columbia Center, the tallest building in the Pacific Northwest.
Source: historylink.org
historyKing County Courthouse
In 1931, 10 stories were added to the 1916 four story building to bring the courthouse to its current height. Until 1962, the County-City Building accommodated the offices of King County and City of Seattle government.
Source: historylink.org
quirkEdmount Island
Edmount Island, also called Ballinger Island, is a 3-acre island in Lake Ballinger, in the Seattle suburbs of south Snohomish County, in the U.S. state of Washington. The Bartholomews were from Pennsylvania and homesteaded the lake island in 1862 ... requiring the United States government to re-survey the land which did not exist in official records. A land patent was issued in 1902. The island is made of peat, which was completely engulfed in a runaway barbecue fire during a summer heat wave in 2009. Since the fire, the island has been closed to public access.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyWallingford-Meridian Streetcar Historic District
The Wallingford–Meridian Streetcar Historic District was designated by the National Register of Historic Places on December 9, 2022, to recognize the neighborhood's streetcar suburb origins, similar to a handful of other neighborhoods in Seattle.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionGood Shepherd Center
Meridian Playground features a former Roman Catholic home for wayward girls called the Good Shepherd Center, now a shared community space run by Historic Seattle.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyLake Union Dry Dock Company
Lake Union Dry Dock Company was founded by Otis Cutting and John McLean in 1919 to build and service watercraft vessels. During Prohibition, the US Coast Guard commissioned Lake Union Dry Dock Company to construct fifteen 75-foot patrol boats.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionShoreline High School
Shoreline High School was a public high school in Shoreline, Washington, United States, in the Shoreline School District. Shoreline opened in 1955 and closed in 1986. In 1984 the Shoreline School Board voted to close the Shoreline High School at the end of the 1985–86 school year. The reasons for the closure were due to declining enrollments and monetary issues. Once closed the Shoreline High School building became used as the Shoreline School District administration offices.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
quirkI-90 western terminus
Interstate 90 is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at about 3,100 miles; its western terminus is at SR 519 near Seattle's stadiums and its eastern end is in Boston.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionUwajimaya
Uwajimaya was founded in Tacoma in 1928 by Fujimatsu and Sadako Moriguchi; Fujimatsu sold homemade fishcakes and other Japanese staples from the back of his truck. Its Seattle flagship anchors Uwajimaya Village in the heart of the Chinatown-International District, and the family-owned business is now led by granddaughter Denise Moriguchi, the third generation.
Source: uwajimaya.com
historyBurke-Gilman Trail Wallingford Section
The trail can trace its origins to the founding of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway on April 15, 1885, by ten men headed by judge Thomas Burke and Daniel Gilman. On August 19, 1978 the first 12.1 miles of the right-of-way from Seattle's Gas Works Park to Kenmore's Tracy Owen Station was opened as a public trail.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyNorthlake Shipyard
Marine Power & Equipment Company was established in 1946. Their repair yard was at 1441 North Northlake Way, on Lake Union - see it from the air on Google here : it is now occupied by Northlake Shipyard.
Source: shipbuildinghistory.com
developmentHarvard-Belmont Landmark District
H. C. Henry, a railroad builder and a powerful force in Seattle's business community, was the first man of influence to settle in the district. Although his house is now gone, his presence was instrumental in attracting others of like means and ability to the area.
Source: seattle.gov
institutionJohn Stanford International School
Formerly known as Latona School, the school is named for the late John Stanford, superintendent of the Seattle School District, who died on 28 November 1998. The historic school building (1906) is a designated City of Seattle Landmark.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyShip Canal Bridge Lower Deck
Construction was completed in 1961 and the bridge opened to traffic on December 18, 1962. The bridge is double-decked, with the upper deck carrying traffic in both directions and the lower deck carrying traffic southbound in the morning and northbound in the afternoon.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
quirkSaint Mark's Cathedral Crypt
From 1943 to 1944, the United States Army used the cathedral as an anti-aircraft training facility; the evidence of this era can still be seen in murals in the crypt.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionDick's Drive-In on Broadway
Dick's Drive-In opened its first location in Wallingford in January 1954 and its Broadway location on Capitol Hill in 1955; both are still operating.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historySeward School Historic Landmark
It will be renamed the Seward School in 1905 when a second building is added. A third building will join the others in 1917. The three historic buildings, designated landmarks in 1981, will become the home of an alternative program known as The Option Program at Seward and later TOPS K-8 School.
Source: historylink.org
sightStreissguth Gardens
The Streissguth Gardens are a family-maintained hillside garden covering approximately one acre on the northwest side of Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington. The Streissguth Gardens have grown incrementally over the years, beginning with Daniel Streissguth’s purchase of the north lot by the Blaine steps in 1962.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyRoanoke Park Historic District
The park was named by David T. Denny and Henry Fuhrman after Roanoke, Virginia. It was bought by the city of Seattle in 1908.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyLake View Cemetery
Martial artist and film star Bruce Lee, laid to rest in 1973, is buried at Lake View Cemetery, next to Volunteer Park in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, beside his son Brandon, who died in 1993; the grave draws visitors from around the world and is a national and global pilgrimage site.
Source: seattleglobalist.com
historyPortage Bay Houseboat Community
In June 1961, and in September, 53 houseboats on Portage Bay faced eviction due to the imminent construction of a viaduct linking the new Evergreen Point Floating Bridge to the new I-5.
Source: historylink.org
sightVolunteer Park Water Tower
The Seattle Water Department finished the Volunteer Park Water Tower on Capitol Hill in 1906, partly to give the park an observation deck. Two spiral stairways inside, each with 106 stairs, climb to a deck with a 360-degree view.
Source: web.seattle.gov
developmentU District Station
U District station opened October 2, 2021 as part of the Northgate Link light rail extension, putting an underground station on Brooklyn Avenue NE next to the University of Washington campus.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyInterlaken Boulevard Historic Parkway
Interlaken Park is a 51.7-acre park in Seattle, Washington. A heavily wooded hillside and ravine, it forms the division between Capitol Hill to the south and Montlake to the north. Interlaken Drive E. runs through the park north to south, and E. Interlaken Boulevard, part of which is now closed to traffic, does so northwest to southeast.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyLondon Bridge Studio
London Bridge Studio is a recording studio near Seattle that has hosted and recorded many influential artists, producers and engineers since 1985. Bands of that era, such as Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, launched the studio into international notoriety.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
developmentPortage Bay Bridge rebuild
The SR 520 Portage Bay Bridge and Roanoke Lid project started construction in November 2024, with completion estimated for 2031; it replaces the aging Portage Bay Bridge with a seismically resilient structure and builds a landscaped lid between Roanoke Park and North Capitol Hill.
Source: wsdot.wa.gov
developmentBoyer Avenue East
Montlake was primarily developed by John E. Boyer and Herbert Turner from 1903 through the early 1930s. The neighborhood's main thoroughfares are Boyer Avenue E. (northwest- and southeast-bound), 24th Avenue E. and Lake Washington and Montlake Boulevards E.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyMontlake Playfield
The Montlake Playfield and Shelter House were constructed partially on fill in former marshlands on the shores of Portage Bay between 1933 and 1936. In the 1910s and 1920s, houseboats moored there, and Dahlialand, a local garden store, utilized nearby acreage to grow dahlia bulbs for commercial use.
Source: historylink.org
institutionBoyer Children's Clinic
The Boyer clinic opened in 1948 as Dr. Wyckoff Spastic Pre-school and Clinic. The facility served children with cerebral palsy and other neuromuscular disorders. The current two-story, 13,444-square-foot building at 1850 Boyer Avenue was designed by Ibsen Nelsen and the Fred Bassetti group, and opened in 1992.
Source: historylink.org
institutionSeattle Yacht Club
The Seattle Yacht Club's first Opening Day Parade in the Montlake Cut was held May 1, 1920, to celebrate commissioning its grand new clubhouse on Portage Bay; Opening Day has since become the nation's largest regional celebration of spring and the start of boating season.
Source: seattleyachtclub.org
historyMuseum of History and Industry Montlake Site
In 1952, the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) opened on land that had been owned by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, a remnant of the Lake Washington Ship Canal project, and was acquired by Seattle Parks and Recreation Department, which gave MOHAI a low-cost lease. The airy, modern building was designed by noted northwest architect Paul Thiry (1904-1993).
Source: historylink.org
sightRainier Vista at UW
Rainier Vista, today the defining element of the University of Washington campus, was laid out by landscape architect John C. Olmsted of the Olmsted Brothers firm for the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition as one of the grounds' view axes, deliberately framed on Mount Rainier.
Source: historylink.org
seasonalUW Quad cherry blossoms
About thirty Yoshino cherry trees, bought by the UW in 1939 and moved from the Arboretum to the Quad in 1962 after SR 520 construction began, typically bloom between mid-March and early April.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
developmentJudkins Park Station and the Crosslake Connection
Sound Transit's 2 Line opened across Lake Washington on March 28, 2026, with new stations at Judkins Park and Mercer Island. It was the first time anywhere in the world that a metro line carried commuters across a floating bridge.
Source: soundtransit.org
developmentMountlake Terrace
In 1949, developer Albert LaPierre and his partner, Jack Peterson, bought an abandoned airstrip on logged-over land about 12 miles north of Seattle, just over the Snohomish County line, and began filling it with 640-square-foot cinder-block houses, priced at $4,999 and aimed at World War II veterans with young families. They named their development Mountlake Terrace because from some parts of the property they could see both Mount Rainier and Lake Washington, and the old runway looked a little like a terrace.
Source: historylink.org
historyScriber Lake Park
In 1890 Alderwood Manor pioneer Paul Schreiber homesteaded 160 acres that included the park site, and the lake came to be known as Scriber Lake; a resort with a dance hall, rental cabins and a swimming pool once stood at its west end. The City of Lynnwood bought 22 acres including the lake in 1982 to protect it as a community park.
Source: lynnwoodwa.gov
institutionMontlake Community Center
Montlake mothers, desiring to ward off boredom that might propel their teenagers into juvenile delinquency, pushed for the creation of the playfield, which -- with the field house structure that initially housed the community center -- were built by WPA (Works Progress/Works Projects Administration) workers.
Source: historylink.org
quirkMontlake Bridge
The Montlake Bridge opened June 27, 1925. It is a double-leaf bascule bridge with Gothic control towers meant to match the nearby University of Washington campus. It was the last of the 4 bascule bridges built across the canal and is widely considered the most beautiful.
Source: historylink.org
institutionMontlake School
The renamed Montlake School replaced Portage School in 1924, serving first through seventh grade the first year and through eighth grade thereafter. In 1941, seventh and eighth grades were relocated to Meany Middle School on Capitol Hill.
Source: historylink.org
developmentMontlake Lid over SR 520
WSDOT's SR 520 Montlake Project, now complete, built a new three-acre lid over the highway in Montlake with regional transit stops and open green space, plus a bicycle and pedestrian bridge over SR 520 just east of the lid.
Source: wsdot.wa.gov
historyMontlake Cut
Work on the Lake Washington Ship Canal began in 1909 with the digging of the Montlake Cut; after the Cut was opened in August 1916, Lake Washington was lowered 9 feet over about 3 months.
Source: historylink.org
seasonalOpening Day of boating season
Seattle Yacht Club's Opening Day of boating season, a tradition dating to 1920, is held the first Saturday of May: a cannon blast and the raising of the Montlake Bridge start a boat parade through the Montlake Cut, preceded by the Windermere Cup rowing races.
Source: seattleyachtclub.org
institutionShorecrest High School
Shorecrest High School was founded in 1961 on a 42-acre campus originally leased from the Washington State Department of Natural Resources until the Shoreline School District bought it outright in 1985.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionShoreline Christian School
Shoreline Christian School was founded in 1952 by the Christian Education Society of Seattle as Calvin Christian School, later renamed Watson Groen Christian School; its first classes met in the home of Howard and Genevieve Long.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionMontlake Branch Library
In 1944, The Seattle Public Library teamed up with the Montlake Community Club to open a small library. The community club raised money and leased a former grocery store. The Library provided a librarian and books. The new Montlake Branch opened in 2006 with a meeting room and a parking lot.
Source: spl.org
quirkMontlake Spite House
In 1925, a Montlake neighbor made a low offer for a tiny slice of adjoining land. Out of spite for the low offer, the builder built an 860-square-foot house at 2022 24th Avenue E. that blocked the neighbors' open space. The house is 55 inches wide at the south end and 15 feet wide at the north end. The Montlake Spite House still is standing and occupied.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyHusky Stadium
Husky Stadium opened on the shore of Union Bay in 1920, hosting its first game that November; it is still the University of Washington's football home.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
developmentLynnwood City Center station
A park and ride near I-5 and 44th Avenue West opened in May 1981 with 808 stalls, the largest of its kind in Washington, and was rebuilt in 2003 as Lynnwood Transit Center. Light rail service began there on August 30, 2024, and the facility was renamed Lynnwood City Center station.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionTukwila Library
The $9.6 million Tukwila Library opened on April 29, 2017, at Tukwila International Boulevard and S 144th Street. It replaced the nearby Foster Library and was the first building completed in the six-acre Tukwila Village development.
Source: historylink.org
quirkFoster Rock
The Foster Rock was found when King County leveled 51st Avenue South, survived a dynamite blast, and was dragged to an intersection where students began painting it in the 1930s. In the sixties it was moved up to the Foster High School campus.
Source: westsideseattle.com
historyTyee High School
The original Tyee High School, built in 1963, had six circular buildings arranged in a V shape around a courtyard. It served the SeaTac community for 60 years, and a new Tyee High School opened in 2025.
Source: tyee.highlineschools.org
historySuperintendent's Cottage
The Superintendent's Cottage and the Water Tower are the only surviving structures of the 33-acre Demonstration Farm the Puget Mill Company built in 1917 along the Interurban Railway. The Lynnwood-Alderwood Manor Heritage Association rescued the cottage during interchange construction in 1997 and moved it to Heritage Park.
Source: lynnwoodwa.gov
institutionValley View Library
The Valley View Library grew from the McMicken Library of 1954 and the Valley Ridge Library of 1960, and the citizen-named library opened on May 22, 1982. It was renovated in 2002 and again in 2016.
Source: historylink.org
developmentAlderwood Mall
Allied Stores announced a mall in 1969 and cleared 110 acres west of the I-5 and I-405 interchange, but the project stalled until developer Edward DeBartolo Sr. built Alderwood Mall, which opened on October 4, 1979. A 2002 to 2004 renovation added The Village and shortened its name to Alderwood.
Source: historylink.org
developmentLynnwood Place
The former Lynnwood High School at 3001 184th St SW was built in 1969, and its site sat vacant from 2009 to 2015 after the school relocated. In October 2007 the Edmonds School District reached a deal with Cypress Equities for a 99-year lease, and the site was redeveloped as Lynnwood Place, with a Costco that opened on October 1, 2015.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
developmentBow Lake Transfer Station
King County's Bow Lake Transfer Station at 18800 Orillia Rd. S. handles more than one-third of all the tonnage in the County's solid waste transfer system. A redevelopment begun in early 2009 opened a new transfer building in 2012, with the whole project due in late 2013.
Source: westsideseattle.com
quirkWell Number 5
Well Number 5, also called the 164th Street Artesian Well, is one of ten artesian wells that supplied the Alderwood area in the 1950s; the other nine were capped when the water district contracted with Everett for its supply. In the early 2000s its taps were moved about 100 feet from a wooded spot to a structure alongside 164th Street.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
developmentSR 518
SR 518 runs from Burien past Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and ends at an interchange with I-5 in Tukwila, as the freeway becomes I-405. It was codified in 1937, and during the 1970s the roadway was widened into a freeway to serve the airport.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyState Route 525
State Route 525, which runs from Lynnwood to the Mukilteo ferry and across Whidbey Island, was extended from Highway 99 to the newly completed I-5 in February 1965 along 164th Street. In the 1980s it was moved onto a two-lane freeway that extended the route to I-405, and its interchange with I-5 was completed in November 1984.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
sightLewis Lake Nature Park
Lewis Lake Nature Park, on the West Hill of Auburn, was completed in 2020 and named after former Mayor Peter B. Lewis. Its loop trail circles an approximate 2-acre lake.
Source: auburnwa.gov
historyHogan Park at Russell Road
Russell Road Park was renamed Hogan Park at Russell Road to honor Isabel Hogan, the city's first female mayor, who served from 1970-86. The parks director said the facility was built, with initial construction started, during her term.
Source: kentreporter.com
developmentSwift Orange Line
The Swift Orange Line, the third line of Community Transit's Swift bus rapid transit system, began service on March 30, 2024. Its 11-mile route runs from Edmonds College to McCollum Park with 16 stations, serving Lynnwood City Center station, Alderwood Mall and Ash Way Park and Ride.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
sightCentennial Viewpoint Park
The Auburn Rotary Club developed Centennial Viewpoint Park during Auburn's centennial year in 1991, and the small overlook looks across the Green River Valley toward Mount Rainier.
Source: auburnwa.gov
sightTukwila Pond Park
Tukwila Pond Park is a 24-acre natural area in the midst of Southcenter, most of it a 19-acre pond that formed in this low-lying area after development spread across the formerly agricultural river valley after the 1950s. The Audubon Society noted it as a bird observation site.
Source: archive.seattletimes.com
historyTukwila School
The Tukwila School, built in 1920, taught grades one through six until 1946. The city used it as its Town Hall from 1947 to 1978, it was the Tukwila Library from 1980 to 2010, and the Tukwila Historical Society renamed it the Tukwila Heritage and Cultural Center.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
sightLake Stickney
Lake Stickney lies between Interstate 5 and Highway 99 at the south edge of Everett, covering 25.0 acres with a maximum depth of 34 feet. County staff and volunteer lake monitors have tracked its health since 1993.
Source: snohomishcountywa.gov
developmentSR 524
In 2018, WSDOT installed a pair of roundabouts on SR 524 on both sides of its I-405 underpass to handle increasing commuter traffic.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
quirkGaines Park
Gaines Park was dedicated in May 1999 and named for former Auburn Mayor Robert E. "Bob" Gaines. It was a joint project between the Storm Water Division and Parks and Recreation and includes a Storm Retention Pond.
Source: auburnwa.gov
historyState Route 96
State Route 96 follows the route of a wagon road Snohomish County built in the late 1880s to connect Snohomish to Seattle. Its westernmost segment, once named Post Road, was extended to Paine Field in the late 1960s, a few years after its I-5 interchange opened in 1965, and the road joined the state highway system in 1991.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
developmentSwift Green Line
Community Transit's Swift Green Line, a bus rapid transit route that cost $73 million, began construction in July 2017 and opened on March 24, 2019. A queue jump and bus lane at the 128th Street interchange opened in January 2018, and the line serves a park and ride at Mariner.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionMariner High School
Mariner High School opened on September 8, 1970; before then the Mukilteo School District only offered kindergarten through ninth grade, and older students had to attend Everett High School. It was the district's only high school until Kamiak High School opened in 1993.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionCascade High School
Cascade High School opened on September 5, 1961, a year later than projected, as suburbs grew south of Everett; until then all Everett School District secondary students attended Everett High School. Everett annexed Cascade and its surrounding area on February 6, 1962.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
developmentSouth Everett Freeway Station
Sound Transit and its partners broke ground on the South Everett Freeway Station on September 12, 2006, the state's first park-and-ride lot located in a freeway median. It was planned with approximately 400 parking stalls and direct access for transit and HOV vehicles to both directions of I-5.
Source: soundtransit.org
developmentEverett Mall
Everett Mall, first planned in the mid-1960s as the Broadway Mall, finally opened in October 1974 with only one anchor tenant and little more than half of its stores occupied. Brixton Capital announced a major redevelopment in August 2022, and the mall's interior closed on July 1, 2025.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyState Route 526
State Route 526 ends at an interchange with I-5 in southern Everett, reached on flyover ramps. A ramp from northbound I-5 to westbound SR 526 opened on November 13, 1970, and a direct connection from SR 526 to northbound I-5 was built in 1995.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historySwalwell Cottage
Built in the winter of 1891–1892, the cottage was the home of Alfred W. Swalwell. Pine St. was Swalwell Avenue at the time of construction. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 28 November 1978.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
seasonalTulalip Lights & Ice
In November 2025 the Tulalip Lights & Ice opening ceremony switched on 9.7 million lights adorning Tulalip Resort Casino and Quil Ceda Village. It was the fourth year Tulalip hosted the largest holiday lights display in Washington state.
Source: heraldnet.com
developmentTulalip Resort Casino
A 12-story hotel with 370 rooms opened at the Tulalip Resort Casino on August 15, 2008. The casino itself opened in 2003 as the Tulalip Casino.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyTulalip Amphitheatre
Country star Trisha Yearwood became the first ticketed attraction at the new 2,300-seat Tulalip Amphitheatre in Quil Ceda Village, which represents the Tulalips' efforts to diversify. It was built at a cost of more than $2 million.
Source: archive.seattletimes.com
developmentSeattle Premium Outlets
On February 4, 2004, the Tulalip Tribes reached an agreement with Chelsea Property Group, a developer of outlet malls based in Roseland, New Jersey, to build an outlet mall known as Seattle Premium Outlets. The mall opened on May 5, 2005
Source: en.wikipedia.org
developmentCabela's Tulalip
On June 6, 2011, the Tulalip Tribes announced that Cabela's would build a 110,000-square-foot store, its second in the state, between The Home Depot and the resort casino; the land had remained empty since the opening of the business park due to the tribe seeking an ideal business for the property. A ground-breaking ceremony for the store occurred in August 2011; it subsequently opened on April 19, 2012.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
institutionSno-Isle Libraries
Sno-Isle was formed in 1962 to serve Island and Snohomish counties. A new headquarters building near Marysville was constructed in 1965.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
quirkI-5 railroad bridge
In 2016 the unused railroad bridge that spans I-5 near 116th Street NE was Tulalip Tribes property. Its rails remained on the bridge but were no longer connected to any main lines.
Source: heraldnet.com
historyMarysville-Everett cutoff
The Marysville-Everett cutoff opened in 1927 as part of the Pacific Highway, later designated SR 529. It shortened the distance between Marysville and Everett from nearly 11 miles to four miles.
Source: historylink.org
historyMarysville Opera House
The Marysville Opera House was finished by August 1911. It was the second known structure in Snohomish County to use poured concrete rather than timber or masonry.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
developmentMill Town Trail
The Mill Town Trail, a loop of more than six miles, follows the waterfront from the Terminal Avenue area, along West Marine View Drive, around the peninsula to Riverside Park overlooking the Snohomish River on East Grand Avenue.
Source: heraldnet.com
quirkMarysville's town hall
On March 12, 1923, Marysville moved its town hall four blocks from Front Street to 3rd and Delta streets. The building got stuck in the middle of the railroad tracks that cross 3rd Street just east of Cedar Street.
Source: historylink.org
sightSnohomish River estuary
The final few miles of the river in Everett form the Snohomish River estuary, a river delta that features wetlands and tideflats spread out across various islands and arms of the river. Several bridges carry U.S. Route 2 , Interstate 5 , and State Route 529 across the delta. The river then empties into Possession Sound, which is part of Puget Sound, between Everett and Marysville .
Source: en.wikipedia.org
historyEbey Slough Bridge
The Ebey Slough Bridge is one of four bridges built between 1925 and 1927 to link Everett and Marysville. It is a swing span that rotates on a mid-slough pivot to clear a channel for vessels. The bridge stopped opening for floating traffic in 2010.
Source: historylink.org
developmentI-5/SR 529 interchange project
On October 3, 2025, WSDOT opened a new northbound I-5 off-ramp to SR 529 at exit 198, part of the $123 million I-5/SR 529 interchange project. The new ramps are east of the BNSF railroad tracks, unaffected by passing trains.
Source: wsdot.wa.gov
historyMarysville water tower
The Marysville water tower, a 50,000-gallon steel tank in Comeford Park, was filled for the first time in 1921 as part of the city's new water system. A larger second tower near the waterfront came down in 1987.
Source: marysvillehistory.org
developmentSmith Island Restoration Project
The Smith Island Restoration Project built a setback dike protecting Interstate 5, then breached the existing dike on August 10, 2018. Tidal waters returned to the site for the first time in 85 years.
Source: snohomishcountywa.gov
historyDominic Cavelero
Dominic Cavelero immigrated with his family to the United States from Italy in 1883, landing in San Francisco. He also was a noted vegetable farmer on land in east Everett, across the Snohomish River flats. In all, Cavelero amassed 2,150 acres of fertile land.
Source: heraldnet.com
historyHewitt Avenue Trestle
The original wooden and concrete trestle was opened on January 15, 1936, carrying both directions of traffic and including a drawbridge over the Snohomish River. A parallel trestle to carry westbound traffic was partially opened on April 8, 1968, and fully opened with ceremonies on April 8, 1969, at a cost of $7.3 million.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
sightEbey Island Wildlife Area
This unit consists of approximately 400 acres of forested swamp and over 800 acres of grassland. The forested portion was logged in the 1890s and reforested naturally into one of the few remaining Sitka spruce swamps in the Snohomish River estuary.
Source: wdfw.wa.gov
Landscape you can see from the road
| Feature | Type |
|---|---|
| Allen Creek | Stream |
| American Lake | Lake |
| Angle Lake | Lake |
| Atkins Hill | Summit |
| Bare Hill | Summit |
| Barlow Island | Island |
| Barnes Lake | Lake |
| Bartlett Hill | Summit |
| Beal Hill | Summit |
| Beard Island | Island |
| Bell Hill | Summit |
| Beverly Lake | Lake |
Stops along this corridor
| Kind | Count |
|---|---|
| restaurant | 6192 |
| coffee | 1853 |
| fast food | 1524 |
| grocery | 1519 |
| park | 1418 |
| bar | 1217 |
| museum | 106 |
| memorial | 60 |
| attraction | 39 |
| peak | 36 |
| viewpoint | 24 |
| monument | 12 |
Exits along this corridor
Each one lists what is actually within a short detour, ordered by how far off the highway it is.
- Exit 95 — 4 places worth stopping for
- Exit 99 — 14 places worth stopping for
- Exit 101 — 23 places worth stopping for
- Exit 102 — 94 places worth stopping for
- Exit 103 — 89 places worth stopping for
- Exit 104 — 82 places worth stopping for
- Exit 105 — 95 places worth stopping for
- Exit 107 — 117 places worth stopping for
- Exit 108 — 179 places worth stopping for
- Exit 109 — 165 places worth stopping for
- Exit 111 — 203 places worth stopping for
- Exit 114 — 20 places worth stopping for
- Exit 116 — 12 places worth stopping for
- Exit 118 — 51 places worth stopping for
- Exit 119 — 42 places worth stopping for
- Exit 120 — 30 places worth stopping for
- Exit 122 — 38 places worth stopping for
- Exit 124 — 39 places worth stopping for
- Exit 125 — 96 places worth stopping for
- Exit 127 — 132 places worth stopping for
- Exit 128 — 139 places worth stopping for
- Exit 129 — 93 places worth stopping for
- Exit 130 — 159 places worth stopping for
- Exit 132 — 179 places worth stopping for
- Exit 133 — 377 places worth stopping for
- Exit 134 — 133 places worth stopping for
- Exit 135 — 51 places worth stopping for
- Exit 136 — 47 places worth stopping for
- Exit 137 — 116 places worth stopping for
- Exit 142 — 147 places worth stopping for
- Exit 143 — 295 places worth stopping for
- Exit 147 — 91 places worth stopping for
- Exit 149 — 158 places worth stopping for
- Exit 150 — 88 places worth stopping for
- Exit 151 — 50 places worth stopping for
- Exit 152 — 28 places worth stopping for
- Exit 153 — 268 places worth stopping for
- Exit 154 — 116 places worth stopping for
- Exit 156 — 69 places worth stopping for
- Exit 157 — 42 places worth stopping for
- Exit 158 — 56 places worth stopping for
- Exit 161 — 200 places worth stopping for
- Exit 162 — 234 places worth stopping for
- Exit 163 — 308 places worth stopping for
- Exit 164 — 653 places worth stopping for
- Exit 165 — 2425 places worth stopping for
- Exit 166 — 2396 places worth stopping for
- Exit 167 — 1481 places worth stopping for
- Exit 168 — 284 places worth stopping for
- Exit 169 — 720 places worth stopping for
- Exit 170 — 736 places worth stopping for
- Exit 171 — 356 places worth stopping for
- Exit 172 — 247 places worth stopping for
- Exit 173 — 208 places worth stopping for
- Exit 174 — 162 places worth stopping for
- Exit 175 — 94 places worth stopping for
- Exit 176 — 93 places worth stopping for
- Exit 177 — 162 places worth stopping for
- Exit 178 — 81 places worth stopping for
- Exit 179 — 133 places worth stopping for
- Exit 181 — 214 places worth stopping for
- Exit 182 — 170 places worth stopping for
- Exit 183 — 89 places worth stopping for
- Exit 186 — 98 places worth stopping for
- Exit 189 — 239 places worth stopping for
- Exit 192 — 255 places worth stopping for
- Exit 193 — 226 places worth stopping for
- Exit 194 — 175 places worth stopping for
- Exit 195 — 87 places worth stopping for
- Exit 198 — 83 places worth stopping for
- Exit 199 — 118 places worth stopping for
- Exit 200 — 114 places worth stopping for
- Exit 202 — 99 places worth stopping for
Where to eat along this corridor
Town by town, what is actually within a short detour of the highway.
- Arlington — 23 places to eat
- Bellingham — 119 places to eat
- Blaine — 16 places to eat
- Burlington — 25 places to eat
- Castle Rock — 7 places to eat
- Des Moines — 11 places to eat
- DuPont — 11 places to eat
- Everett — 55 places to eat
- Federal Way — 19 places to eat
- Ferndale — 11 places to eat
- Fife — 36 places to eat
- Kalama — 9 places to eat
- Kelso — 19 places to eat
- Kent — 21 places to eat
- Lacey — 33 places to eat
- Lakewood — 76 places to eat
- Lynnwood — 46 places to eat
- Marysville — 36 places to eat
- Mount Vernon — 58 places to eat
- Mountlake Terrace — 6 places to eat
- Olympia — 35 places to eat
- Quil Ceda Village / qʷəl'sidəʔ ʔalʔaltəd — 21 places to eat
- Ridgefield — 6 places to eat
- Seattle — 809 places to eat
- Tacoma — 103 places to eat
- Tukwila — 83 places to eat
- Tumwater — 33 places to eat
- Vancouver — 57 places to eat
- Woodland — 32 places to eat
Coverage
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