Pier 59

Pier 59 is a pier in City of Seattle, King County, Washington. Pier 59 is situated nearby to the Ferris wheel Seattle Great Wheel, as well as near Pike Place Market.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Seattle Great Wheel and Pike Place Market.

Seattle Great Wheel

Ferris wheel

Photo: Thomson M, CC BY 3.0.

The Seattle Great Wheel is a 53-meter Ferris wheel at Pier 57 on Elliott Bay in Seattle, Washington, United States. At an overall height of 175 feet, it was the tallest Ferris wheel on the West Coast of the United States when it opened in June 2012. Seattle Great Wheel is situated 480 feet south of Pier 59.

Pike Place Market

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Pike Place Market is a public market in Seattle, Washington, United States. It opened on August 17, 1907, and is one of the older continuously operated public farmers' markets in the United States. Pike Place Market is situated 830 feet northeast of Pier 59.

Seattle Art Museum

Museum

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The Seattle Art Museum is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, United States. The museum operates three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park, Capitol Hill; and Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront, which opened in 2007. Seattle Art Museum is situated 1,100 feet east of Pier 59.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downtown Seattle and Belltown.

Downtown Seattle

Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Packed between Elliott Bay and the hilly neighborhoods to the east, Downtown Seattle unsurprisingly contains the city's bustling financial and retail district.

Belltown

Suburb

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Belltown is the most densely populated neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, located on the city's downtown waterfront on land that was artificially flattened as part of a regrading project.

Seattle

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Seattle, Washington sits at one of the most beautiful spots in the United States. Occupying a narrow isthmus between the Puget Sound and Lake Washington, it is the biggest city in the Pacific Northwest, with 780,000 people in Seattle and over four million people in the metro area.

Pier 59

Type: Pier
Category: transportation
Location: City of Seattle, King County, Puget Sound, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

47.60742° or 47° 36′ 27″ north

Longitude

-122.34306° or 122° 20′ 35″ west

Elevation

10 feet (3 metres)

Open location code

84VVJM44+XQ

GeoNames ID

5806739

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