Excursions

Excursions like these can help a person feel at home in a new place, or more at home, in a familiar place.

This page features points of interest in Seattle. You don’t live in Seattle? Most posts include suggestions for similar excursions no matter where you live.

Please, share your adventures. Where did you go? What did you see? What did you do?

We welcome comments.

SIGHTS TO SEE:

GREEN LAKE

TREE WALKS

FIRST THURSDAY ART WALK

SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE ARBORETUM

SCHMITZ PRESERVE PARK

CONSTELLATION PARK

WASHINGTON PARK ARBORETUM

SOUTHWEST SPOKANE STREET BRIDGE

THE FRYE MUSEUM–always FREE!

THE DUWAMISH LONGHOUSE AND CULTURAL CENTER

THE WEST SEATTLE BEE GARDEN

PUBLIC ART:

MICHAEL HALADY CARVED POLE

STACEY STERLING MURALS

MING FAY’S PILLAR ARC, US COURTHOUSE PLAZA

TRAVELLING WITH OUT MOVEMENT, MURAL BY HEBRU BRANTLEY

LEO SEWELL’S JUNK PENGUIN AT PACIFIC PLACE

THAI FISH AT CHINESE GARDEN, SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE

GINNY RUFFNER’S THE URBAN GARDEN, 7TH AND UNION

MORRIE ALEXANDER’S THE RAVEN AND THE SALMON LADY

PETER REIQUAM’S NINE LIVES: FREMONT FIRE STATION

ANNIE HAN AND DANIEL MIHALYO: RE-STACK

ELLEN FORNEY’S WALKING FINGERS: CAPITOL HILL LIGHT RAIL STATION

B.F.DAY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ MURALS:B.F.DAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL