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Jackson Street and First Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
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+1 206 667 0687
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Neighborhood :
Pioneer Square
http://www.pioneersquare.org
Here, where the streets of downtown's business district angle down around Elliott Bay to the south, are the flatlands where Seattle was first built. Nightclubs, art galleries, tourist shops, design firms and restaurants dominate Pioneer Square. The area's First Thursday arts walk draws huge crowds to the studios, galleries and street performers, and the nightclubs keep the neighborhood hopping till the early morning hours. The kitschy Underground Tour explaining Seattle's early history is a perennial tourist favorite, as is the more sober Klondike Gold Rush Museum, which details the Yukon gold fever that made Seattle richer. Yesler Way, which slices the neighborhood in half, has a footnote in history as the original "skid row". There are also several small parks in the area, including the quiet Waterfall Park, the shady cobblestones of Occidental Park, and the totem-pole decorated triangle at First and Yesler, Pioneer Place Park.
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“Loved it”
I loved Pioneer square! The underground tour was fabulous! The goldrush museum was very cool too (I had no idea that Nordstrom was started by a...
“Overrated”
Based on our guidebook, we made our way down to Pioneer Square. While we loved the Elliott Bay Book Company with its old bookshelves and room a...
“Don't miss this area”
We walked from Downtown and enjoyed the Underground Tour, Elliot Bay Book Co. we also walked to the Smith Tower and checked out the observation...
“beautiful neighborhood”
I followed a walking tour in my travel book so I wouldn't miss anything. The gold rush museum, waterfall park, fallen firefighters memorial, El...
“Bursting with Art, Cheap Eats and Boutiques”
Some of these reviews are really really old and the one from the Anchorage lady is paranoid. This is the historic district of Seattle, and has ...
“Not bad”
I was hesitant about going to pioneer square after reading some reviews, but it didnt seem any different to me than any other part of the city....
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