Capitol Hill Farmers Market
The Denny Way entrance to Capitol Hill Station opens straight onto this market, which sets up on E Barbara Bailey Way between Broadway and 10th every Sunday of the year. […]
The Denny Way entrance to Capitol Hill Station opens straight onto this market, which sets up on E Barbara Bailey Way between Broadway and 10th every Sunday of the year. […]
A tea master from Lan Su's Yun Shui Teahouse pours three seasonal Chinese and Taiwanese teas for a group of no more than eight, in one of the garden's pavilions. Over an hour you'll hear where each tea comes from, how it's processed and brewed, and what it means culturally, then take home a porcelain […]
Downtown's Wednesday market wrapped its regular season in October, then returns for one day on the eve of Thanksgiving. The annual Harvest Market sets up in Shemanski Park in the […]
Thanksgiving morning in Washington Park: the Oregon Road Runners Club's 5K starts on SW Knights Boulevard between the zoo lot and the forestry center, winds toward the road down to […]
Northwest VEG's Thanksgiving 5K is the relaxed, inclusive option: walkers, strollers and leashed dogs are all welcome on a new course that starts and finishes at OMSI on the east […]
For its 30th season, the Northwest's big Christmas light festival at Warm Beach Camp, north of Marysville near Stanwood, becomes mainly a walking event. Guests stroll at their own pace past more than a million lights, with a Christmas market, food, costumed characters, mini-golf, a light maze and train rides along the way. It runs […]
Heritage rail cars leave the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in the Central Eastside for a short holiday excursion, with Santa and his elves working the heated cars. Morning departures are […]
Since 1949, a decorated Christmas Ship has sailed around Puget Sound and Lake Washington with a live choir on board, stopping off waterfront parks for 20-minute concerts piped to shore. You can ride the Spirit of Seattle itself, join the 21-and-over Follow Boat, or just show up at a beach with a thermos. Shore stops […]
PNB's staging of George Balanchine's Nutcracker fills McCaw Hall from the day after Thanksgiving through Dec. 27, with the PNB Orchestra in the pit and a show that runs just […]
For three weekends starting the day after Thanksgiving, the Japanese Garden in Washington Park dresses for the season with traditional winter decorations. Visitors can shop Japanese and Japanese-inspired gifts, have them wrapped in furoshiki cloth, and leave with a take-home origami ornament. Seasonal teas and treats are on at the Umami Café, and garden tours […]
Seattle Center's five-week holiday program is mostly free and easy to drop into. The heart of it is the Winter Train & Village in the Armory, a late-19th-century-style model railway […]
Downtown's holiday season officially starts the day after Thanksgiving, back in a renovated Westlake Park after last year's move to Westlake Center during construction. From 11 a.m. there are craft tables, costumed characters and sweets for kids, and at 5 p.m. the giant tree and star are lit, followed right away by fireworks. Last year's […]