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PLEASE, FOR MY SEATTLE TRIP: best places to park (& general directions) to start each day of my itinerary? |
Hi, The following is a rough itinerary for my stay in Seattle (Sept. 2 - 11). I'll be staying at a hotel near the SEA-TAC airport. Could you please give me parking tips (and/or brief driving directions if you know them) for the following itinerary? In other words, where should my targeted PARKING location be to START the itinerary for EACH DAY and how can I get there from the airport area? (I have no guidebook cuz I'm in Korea. If you could at least give me good parking locations to start my day, then I'll Mapquest my directions.) Thanks a lot. Day 1(Sept. 2): Bumbershoot Festival Day 2: Fremont, Ballard Locks, Gasworks Park Day 3: Olympic Sculpture Garden, Pike Place Market, Seattle Art Museum Day 4: REI, bike to Capitol Hill and the arboretum. Day 5: Ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge then Fort Ward State Park. Day 6: Kubota Gardens, Pioneer Square, jazz music at night (Jazz Alley or Triple Door). Day 7-8: N/A Day 9: Kayaking on Lake Union. Mariners game at night. Day 1: Parking for Bumbershoot is not fun. There's a large paylot across from the stadium that you can park in. There's also a lot of free street parking behind the McDonald's across from the Space Needle/EMP. If you are there early enough, you can take any street parking as it is free on Sundays. If you aren't worried about walking, and it doesn't sound like it from your itinerary, you can follow the monorail a block or two down 5th and park around the 5-Point Cafe on street parking, away from the crowd yet still only about 2 blocks away. Day 2: Gasworks has its own parking lot you can park at. Fremont will have a lot of street parking, although a lot of it is also full. Your best bet is driving around the areas of Fremont you want to hang out at and then start searching streets/sidestreets from there. The Ballard Locks will find you with parking around the area... Day 3: Not fun parking right downtown. Not too fun at all. Well, you can find a number of paylots, but I usually avoid them like the plague (it's just a personal thing, paying for parking when I know there's free parking around). Depending on the time, try Western that runs behind Pike Place (behind it as the road behind closer to the water). Driving down the road in front of Pike Place on the bricks is usually an effort in futility, hoping for a spot along with everybody else. Day 4: REI... Sidestreets around REI are your best bet, I'd say. Maybe a couple blocks closer towards Eastlake (north, I guess). Day 5: Are you driving your car on the ferry or leaving it in Seattle? If leaving it here, there's parking under the viaduct, but it's metered parking and I think your day 5 is a weekday so you shouldn't leave it there all day. You can bring the car on the ferry with you to get around. Fort Ward State Park? I'm not sure, is that on Bainbridge? Day 6: I haven't been to the Kubota Gardens, so I'm not sure about what kind of parking lot they have there. I just know it's down in the southend. In Pioneer Square, street parking isn't great, but you can drive around the area to look for it. If you mean during the day, street parking shouldn't be too much of a problem. Jazz Alley is on 6th and you should be able to find parking on the street there within a block or two. It's not really the busiest parking area where it's located. Day 9: Kayaking on Lake Union... Depends on where you are going out from. Parking right near the water isn't so available all the way around. There's parking on the east side of Lake Union that is for the restaurants (Hooter's, Daniel's Broiler, Joey's). There's parking on the west side in lots near to Outback Steakhouse and Jillian's. For the Mariners game, you'll see people trying like mad to whisk you into their paylots which can range from $10-$30/$40 depending on their proximity to the stadium. Honestly, I park at the Sodo building a lot, where Sears and Starbucks corporate are. It's a bit of a walk and isn't meant for parking for the stadium, but I risk it (I seriously don't like to pay for parking!!). I'm not recommending this or condoning this, but I'm just saying. You can decide your price range to find parking and pay at one of the lots accordingly or hope to luck out with street parking if you get there really early. |
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