Tours of Beauty
Ah, the glowing ball in the sky! Ah, the streets filled with sweaty, pasty Northwesterners! Summer has come to Seattle and is busily pinkening acres and acres of skin.
Okay, so it's raining at the moment, but the prognosticators say it'll clear up for the weekend. And they're almost never wrong!
In any event, Seattlest is proud to offer you two really different but quite affordable tours to embark upon this Saturday. "Outdoorsy and educational?" we hear you exclaiming delightedly. Yes, indeed!
Make tracks to Capitol Hill's Volunteer Park to catch the walking tour offered by Seattle's Museum of History and Industry (aka MOHAI): Jewel in the Crown: Volunteer Park Botanical and Historical Tour. The guide, Roger van Oosten, is quite possibly the funniest walking-tour historian we've ever heard.
And, on weekends now through August 28, make plans to take a bus tour of the Cedar River Watershed, which supplies 70 percent of our area's water. Isn't that something? 70 percent! And Seattlest has very little notion where Cedar River might be. We're just that environmentally alienated. Well, we'll sort this out sometime before August 29.
Now for the details!
Jewel in the Crown: Volunteer Park Botanical and Historical Tour begins Saturday at 11 a.m., at the Black Sun Sculpture in front of SAAM.
Seattle’s public park system is widely praised for its beauty and diversity. Volunteer Park is the brightest jewel in the park system’s crown, and the lynchpin of the Olmstead plan for the city. Join historian Roger van Oosten for fun-filled, information packed tour of this elegant landmark of Seattle’s past, present and future.
You can buy day-of ticket prices for $25 ($20 for MOHAI members), but if you make the call today you save $5. Tickets: 206-324-1126. Seattlest believes a lunch is included. But we promise nothing. Ask when you call.
The Cedar River Watershed Tours explore the source of the greater Seattle area’s drinking water. It's a three-hour bus tour (that's right, "a three-hour tour") geared for ages ten and above, and it's just $7.00 for dults and $5.00 for seniors/youth (age 10+). There is a mysterious Registration Line that you call, and all is revealed (such as what time the tour bus leaves, where it leaves from, and whether there are bathroom breaks): 206-233-1515.
