Seattle Motels

Seattle Motels

The city of Seattle is a city that many tourists often like to visit. Some may want to visit the city and need accommodation. Some may want to stay at motels in or near the city. Some may want to stay at high quality motels. Some may want to stay at large or small motels in the city. Some may want to stay at luxury or cheap motels. Some may want to stay at old or new motels. Some may want to stay at motels that have an impressive reputation. Some may want to stay at motels by major roads with parking facilities.

Seattle is a city that many tourists often like to visit, so often need to stay at motels.

Seattle is the most populous city in the USa state of Washington and the Northwestern USA. The encompassing Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metropolitan statistical area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest. A coastal city and major seaport, it is located in the western part of the state on an isthmus between Puget Sound, an arm of the Pacific Ocean, and Lake Washington, about 96 miles south of the Canada – USA border. A major economic, cultural and educational center in the region, Seattle is the county seat of King County.

King County is located in the USA state of Washington. The county seat is Seattle, which is the state's largest city. About two-thirds of the county's population lives in the city's suburbs. King County ranks among the 100 highest-income counties in the United States.

Geographic features

Terrain
Cascade Range
Issaquah Alps
Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Mount Daniel, the highest point
Mount Si
Harbor Island
Maury Island
Mercer Island
Sammamish Plateau
Vashon Island

Water
Cedar River
Coal Creek
Green/Duwamish River
Elliott Bay
Tolt River
Issaquah Creek
Lake Sammamish
Lake Washington
Puget Sound
Snoqualmie River
White River
Melakwa Lake

Major highways
Interstate 5
Interstate 90
Interstate 405
U.S. Route 2

The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. It includes both non-volcanic mountains, such as the North Cascades, and the notable volcanoes known as the High Cascades. The small part of the range in British Columbia is called the Canadian Cascades or Cascade Mountains; the latter term is also sometimes used by Washington residents to refer to the Washington section of the Cascades in addition to North Cascades, the more usual American term, as in North Cascades National Park.

The Duwamish River is the name of the lower 12 miles of Washington state's Green River. Its industrialized estuary is known as the Duwamish Waterway.

Elliott Bay is the body of water on which Seattle, Washington is located. A line drawn from Alki Point in the south to West Point in the north serves to mark the generally accepted division between the bay and the open sound. Part of Washington's inland sea Puget Sound, it is home to the Port of Seattle.
Seattle is also referred to informally as the Gateway to Alaska, Rain City, and Jet City, the latter from the local influence of Boeing. Seattle residents are known as Seattleites.

Seattle has a history of boom and bust cycles, as is common to cities near areas of extensive natural and mineral resources. Seattle has risen several times economically, then gone into precipitous decline, but it has typically used those periods to rebuild solid infrastructure, and to control the criminal element with decisive police action.

The second and most dramatic boom and bust resulted from the Klondike Gold Rush, which ended the depression that had begun with the Panic of 1893; in a short time, Seattle became a major transportation center. On July 14, 1897, the S.S. Portland docked with its famed "ton of gold", and Seattle became the main transport and supply point for the miners in Alaska and the Yukon. Those working men only found lasting wealth in a few cases, however; it was Seattle's business of clothing the miners and feeding them salmon that panned out in the long run.

Seattle is located between an inlet of the Pacific Ocean to the west called Puget Sound and Lake Washington to the east. The city's chief harbor, Elliott Bay, is an inlet of the Sound. West beyond the Sound are the Kitsap Peninsula and Olympic Mountains on the Olympic Peninsula; east beyond Lake Washington and the eastside suburbs are Lake Sammamish and the Cascade Range. Lake Washington's waters flow out through the Lake Washington Ship canal, a series of two man-made canals and Lake Union, to the Hiram C. Chittenden Locks at Salmon Bay, to Shilshole Bay, which is part of Puget Sound. The sea, rivers, forests, lakes, and fields were once rich enough to support one of the world's few sedentary hunter-gatherer societies. Areas lending themselves well to sailing, skiing, bicycling, camping, and hiking may be reached almost year-round.

The city itself is hilly, though not uniformly so. Like Rome, the city is said to lie on seven hills; the lists vary, but typically include Capitol Hill, First Hill, West Seattle, Beacon Hill, Queen Anne, Magnolia, and the former Denny Hill. The Wallingford and Mount Baker neighborhoods are technically located on hills as well. Many of the hilliest areas are near the city center, with Capitol Hill, First Hill, and Beacon Hill collectively constituting something of a ridge along an isthmus between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. The break in the ridge between First Hill and Beacon Hill is man-made, the result of two of the many regrading projects that reshaped the topography of the city center. The topography of the city center was also changed by the construction of a seawall and the artificial Harbor Island (completed 1909) at the mouth of the city's industrial Duwamish Waterway.

North of the city center, Lake Washington Ship Canal connects Puget Sound to Lake Washington. It incorporates four natural bodies of water: Lake Union, Salmon Bay, Portage Bay, and Union Bay.

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