Home to the University of Washington Huskies basketball and volleyball programmes, Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion is a historic college sports arena on the university's campus beside Lake Washington. Opened in 1927 and named for the long-serving athletics director and coach Clarence Hec Edmundson, the pavilion is one of the oldest continuously used venues of its kind in the United States and a landmark of Seattle college sport. The arena seats around ten thousand spectators and.....

Pearl Jam's first five shows happened in this room, back when the band was still called Mookie Blaylock and the club was called the Off Ramp. El Corazon at 109 Eastlake Avenue East in Seattle occupies a building that has housed a live music venue, dance hall or bar continuously since 1910, cycling through names - Au Go Go, the Eastlake East Cafe, Sub-Zero, the Off Ramp, Graceland - before promoter and heavy-music lifer Dana Sims opened it as El Corazon on 4 February 2005. The Off Ramp years mad.....

When Duncan Trussell cut the ribbon on 24 April 2025, Capitol Hill got the largest dedicated comedy venue in Seattle. Emerald City Comedy Club at 210 Broadway East is the expanded reincarnation of Comedy/Bar, the scrappy room that opened in the same building as the city emerged from lockdown and quickly built a loyal following - and a brush with national controversy that only sharpened its profile. The upgrade was dramatic. Facing a rent increase that its 100-seat room could not sustain, the cl.....

One mayoral candidate ran on a promise to tear the rusting towers down; instead they became one of the most influential park designs of the twentieth century. Gas Works Park, at 2101 North Northlake Way on a promontory jutting into Lake Union, preserves the remnants of the last coal gasification plant in the United States - and turned a toxic industrial ruin into Seattle's most distinctive public space. The Seattle Gas Light Company plant manufactured the city's gas from 1906 to 1956, first fro.....

They call it the greatest setting in college football, and the claim is hard to argue: the open end of the horseshoe frames Lake Washington and the Cascades, and fans arrive for games by boat. Husky Stadium, at 3800 Montlake Boulevard NE on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, opened on 27 November 1920 and today seats 70,083 - the largest stadium in the Pacific Northwest. Students built it in a real sense: a plaque drive raised the seed money, and the 30,000-seat bowl was finished 1.....

The land was donated in the 1880s for public use forever, the first hall was built with a saloonkeeper's bequest, and the current one was funded by four sons honouring their mother. Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, at 321 Mercer Street on the Seattle Center campus, is the Pacific Northwest's premier performing arts house. The site has been reinvented three times: the 1928 Civic Auditorium - the House that Suds Built, after James Osborne's 20,000-dollar gift - was rebuilt into the Seattle Opera House f.....

Before it was Seattle's largest indoor-outdoor music venue, the building washed diapers - a service factory in Fremont that the owners cheerfully cite as the source of the venue's character. Nectar Lounge, at 412 North 36th Street in the self-declared Center of the Universe, was handmade into a venue in 2004. The layout is the differentiator: garage-style walls open the main showroom onto a covered outdoor patio with fire pits and stage views, an upstairs mezzanine overlooks the stage with real.....

Stained-glass windows of the sea god still watch the crowd from the walls - nautical decor from 1921 that survived the room's conversion from silent-movie palace to rock venue. The Neptune Theatre, at 1303 NE 45th Street in Seattle's University District, opened on 16 November 1921 with the silent film Serenade. The theatre is the last of its kind: designed by Henderson Ryan for the Puritan Theatre Company, the U-Neptune was one of five neighbourhood houses built in the district during the silen.....

In the bustling Phinney Ridge neighbourhood about four miles north of downtown Seattle, the Woodland Park Zoo is one of the most architecturally and ecologically progressive zoos in the United States. The 92-acre zoo traces its origins to 1899, when the small private estate of the Seattle real-estate developer Guy Phinney was acquired by the city following Phinney's death and converted into a public park, with a small collection of donated animals forming the original zoo around the same time. .....