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Seattle

United States of America · 21 quests

History

4 quests
Space Needle, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Space Needle
A flying saucer rose for a six-month fair
Lake View Cemetery, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Lake View Cemetery
A father and son share one hillside
Curiosity Shop, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Curiosity Shop
A two-headed calf shares the shop with mummies
Pike Place, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Pike Place
Farmers once sold here without middlemen

Nature

4 quests
Discovery Park, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Discovery Park
An old fort now hides trails to a lighthouse
Kubota Garden, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Kubota Garden
A former swamp became a Japanese garden
Gas Works, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Gas Works
Its rusted towers still frame the lake
Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Washington Park Arboretum
Its paths lead from tall trees into wetland

Art

3 quests
Hat & Boots, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Hat & Boots
The boots once held a gas station’s toilets
Trailer Park Mall, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Trailer Park Mall
Its tiny shops sit inside vintage trailers
Fremont Troll, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Fremont Troll
A troll grips something real under the bridge

Food

6 quests
Lasagna, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Lasagna
Its layers hide greens beneath three cheeses
Oysters, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Oysters
Their shells hold a mouthful of cold sea water
Clam Chowder, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Clam Chowder
The bowl is made of bread not ceramic
Salmon, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Salmon
This fish lives in river and sea
Cedar-plank salmon, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Cedar-plank salmon
The salmon cooks on its own wooden board
Dungeness Crab, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Dungeness Crab
Its shell changes colour in the pot

Beach

1 quest
Alki Beach, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Alki Beach
A city skyline sits across the water

Sport

2 quests
Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Climate Pledge Arena
Its rink begins as rain on the roof
Lumen Field, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Lumen Field
Its roof turns cheers into a wall of sound

Party

1 quest
Nectar, Seattle🇺🇸 Seattle
Nectar
The live band gives way to a dance floor

United States of America

Photo quests in Seattle

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Seattle holds 21 quests across every category the catalogue keeps, led by Food with six — though only just, with four in History behind it.

Two of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other 19 are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers 15 of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. History here means places where something happened and the ground still shows it, which is also where the famous version and the standing version most often part company. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Seattle quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The two quests in Seattle the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Seattle

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Seattle

How many photo quests are there in Seattle?
21, across all seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (6), History (4) and Nature (4). Among them: Space Needle, Discovery Park and Hat & Boots.
What is there to do in Seattle beyond the obvious?
2 of the 21 quests in Seattle are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Seattle holds two at tier 1, four at tier 2 and 15 at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Lake View Cemetery and Hat & Boots, which fall under History and Art.
Can you do all the Seattle quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 21 is 14 km from the middle of the Seattle list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which Seattle quests can you do for free?
19 of the 21 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 21 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Seattle means two quests: Lake View Cemetery and Hat & Boots.
How do I prove I visited a place in Seattle?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Seattle is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Space Needle fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Seattle sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.