What Downtown Seattle Looks Like In June 2022 | Walking Tour - First Hill, Pike Place, Waterfront
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Walking tour of downtown Seattle in mid June 2022. Begins at around 10:30 AM on a weekday at First Hill and ends in Pioneer Square. Covers Freeway Park, Washington State Convention Center, Westland Center (shopping/commercial district), Pike Place Market and Seattle Waterfront. A glimpse at what downtown Seattle looks like as the city transitions from spring to summer.
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A little bit about me...
My name is Dennis aka Lao Ocean (also aka Dr. Wtpho, but more about that later) and I'm a Lao American UA-camr based in Seattle, WA. Seattle has been my home since 1980. My videos and vlogs consist of walking tours in Seattle and abroad, travel, and things related to the Lao diaspora. I drink way too much coffee, eat pho 20PHO7, and also make food and food review videos. 🤓✌️
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My girlfriend and I went there last March for a week and let me tell you, it looks cleaner now than before. I fell in love with Seattle because of the weather and how easy it is to navigate the city and shoutout to the people that recommended some good place to eat while we’re there! Need to go back there again ASAP!
I just wanted to thank you. Im taking my family to Seattle at the end of the month and we are staying downtown. I was a little worried at first, but after watching your videos the last couple months it looks like it has been cleaned up. Thanks for the peace of mind!
Glad the videos are helpful and thanks for watching!
Stay off the Blade. That's around 3rd and Pike/Pine. Very unstable and dangerous.
me too!
How did it go?
Thanks!
Thank you! ☕️
Thanks! Because of all your videos, I fall in love with Seattle. Coming back there every Arizona teaching break!
I don’t care what anyone says, I love Cheesecake Factory! It’s comfort food, for sure. I was just downtown yesterday and it feels better than it did a few months ago. Not perfect by any means, but definitely an improvement. Loved this walk ☺️
I’m with ya. Love Cheesecake Factory. 🤣
Thank you for the scenic tour!
I’m moving there in March with my dog and family, thank you for your insightful videos!
Have a successful move and let me know if need support with anything.
@@LaoOcean Where the good Lao food is at??!!
@@slothofastudent right here - ua-cam.com/video/K-WXHuA3bJ0/v-deo.html
Waterfront looks so good. Lots of food. I'm a youtuber too and I really enjoyed your video. Subscribed!
I'll just do a thumbs up now cuz pho 🍜 sho it's gonna be awesome...✌️
I miss the Viaduct. 😢Well, i miss walking around Seattle. 😢Love your walking tours! ❤️My son once walked from Bothell to Pike place. It IS possible!
This is beautiful tour. I hope to go to this place. lots of love
Stephanie from London
Thank you for watching!
👍AWESOME... What an excellent video Mr. Ocean. A beautiful day in Seattle; I have an affinity for your wonderful city and you show it off so well I long to be there... I'd like to be with you the day you walk the whole city; I'm sure your stories and descriptions of the city would make that walk a time to remember. You show a lot of the same things, but your narration makes it seem new in many ways. Thanks for the wonderful content Mr Ocean. I don't know about all the short stuff you are thinking about; of course I will try to consume all your content, but I like all your long walks/talks. Show what you need to show, and , again, thank you Sir...✌️
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@@LaoOcean 🍻
So appreciate this video!!! We are coming into Downtown and have NO a rental car and staying at the hostel. Your videos are planning my itinerary!
Glad the video is helpful!
Gonna watch now. Thanks for all that you do, Sir!
Thanks for this. I got a glimpse of what Seattle looks like now. Especially downtown. I love to walk too. But hearing about the crimes in 3rd/Pike/Pine worries me a lot. Will visit in Mid Oct.
Thanks for watching!
Hi, thanks for your wonderful videos! I came across your channel last night and am obsessed. I live in the NYC metro area and am thinking about moving to Seattle in a couple of years. Your walking and driving tours are a fantastic way to get to know the city until I can arrange to visit. And it's so lovely getting to know you. I'm so happy to have found your channel!
Welcome to my channel and thank you for watching! Glad you found the videos to be helpful. Wishing you a smooth transition from the big apple when the time comes!
@@LaoOcean thanks so much!
I'm planning a trip for August. Thx for sharing. I live in Colorado springs.👍
Is it me or the city looks suuper clean? :O
The downtown is been cleaned lately of vagrants and garbage...for the tourists...but the zombie apocalypse is drifting from one area to another and so on...too many ppl on drugs and too much dealers
Believe me at isnt
Me trying to get away from the Texas heat anything is better than 115 lol am so glad I came across your video because I was kinda iffy about going out there.
Enjoy your trip!
Just got back from Seattle and walked everywhere. It's easy. I walk just for the exercise and also to digest my food after a meal. I feel that you see more when you walk. I did take the bus over to Bellevue and had lunch there.
Sounds like you did some quality walking while in Seattle. Outstanding!
Would you say Airbnb or Hotel is better?
Excellent tour of the city. Thank you so much. Planning on heading there in a few weeks and this was very helpful
Glad you enjoyed the walk!
Lao makes Seattle even that much more beautiful
Great video! Love Seattle! lived there since 2016 till 2021 when I had to move back to Georgia for my mom's passing, I'm not ready to get back there, I'm so glad they are cleaning up the city, it's such a beautiful city! Funny story, when I visited Seattle before I moved there, I ate at that McDonalds not knowing how "infamous" it was lol. Water Front is amazing! love the views on such a beautiful clear day such as this one, I cannot wait to get back! only thing stopping me sadly is the funds to make the move back.
Gotta love the infamous McD’s lol. Glad
you experienced it. 😀
Awesome walking tour I love to wak and coffee too Starbucks is the best my favorite coffee shop I want to Seattle soon I have friends living there .
Thank you so much .
Greetings from Utah 🌸💕🌸💕
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memories, I used to walk Downtown Seattle, when I lived in West Seattle, when I was growing up. Now I am stuck in hot, smoggy, humid Southern Cal!!! You should walk from the West Seattle Junction to the Admiral District
Sounds like you did a lot of walking.
@@LaoOcean I did, when I was 10-15 years old, better than staying home with 8 siblings
I live in that area! Love walking around West Seattle Junction. Moved here from Phoenix, AZ and all I can say is I love Seattle a lot more.
@Dick Trickle Yea, if I had the money, I would move back to Seattle. The heaviest rain is in the Winter, otherwise, it is mostly a light rain that falls the rest of the year, except for summer where you get 2-3 months of sunshine and clouds
go w/ yero, let's see more of the new waterfront development, overlook walk opens today, aquarium to sculpture park will be going green this spring
just walk it, sounds good, had mine and home by 9:00
Hey Lao hi from Sydney Australia ciao caffe 🙂😎☀️👍☕️
Fun fact: Gameworks (next to the Regal on Pike) is set to re-open with new management in July after closing its doors last year due to Covid!
I am so excited, it is such an awesome bar-cade to meet up during cons
I will be at Pax and Comic Con this year. Hope to see you there! Freeway Park definitely looks better from when I did my last video. The Northern section was a lot of where the problems were that I saw. How did it look? Happy to see a longer video! Will watch the rest tonight! Can’t believe they had the convention center open to walk around so empty. Have you done Storyville at Pike Place? It’s our favorite coffee spot at the market.
See you there!
@@LaoOcean have you heard of Pax? Tickets are on sale now. Will be the end of August at the convention center as well!
@@pnwpaths2925 Yes I go to PAX almost every year. I’ll have to see if I’ll be in town that weekend.
@@LaoOcean will be there Friday and Saturday!
Great look at Seattle
We will be in Seattle in the middle of September for a day or 2, I am hoping that we run into you. We are staying close to Climate Pledge Arena, so good coffee recommendations in that area would be appreciated!! Thanks for sharing!
Get coffee at KEXP radio station and coffee shop next to the arena. ☕️
@@LaoOcean thanks!! We will be checking out those coffee shops!
And I just found out our hotel has a Starbuck's in it, but looking for something a bit more unique.
Great walking tour! I love these! ❤️
I am coming back on June 27 to July 4!!! Hope we meet up or our paths cross there.
My hometown city! Grew up 30 miles north of Seattle and lived there for nearly 23 years until moving just north of Portland, OR two years ago. Looking forward to moving back next year, but closer to the Canadian border
Love the vids and chat while you walk. I come back to Seattle next month, and I'm a walker, so you if you ever would enjoy the company, I would be down to walk with. Across the street from McDonalds, use to be like this tobacco shop, that I think, is now in the place next to it, where Payless shoes use to be.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Damn UA-cam, how do I give more thumbs up to Lao Ocean...✌
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We used to live in downtown Seattle. I’m impressed they cleaned up the area by McD’s! We used to avoid that area because it was way too shady. Kinda sad though a lot of the shops that used to be there are gone like, what happened to All Saints which used to be across from Gap. And what’s at the old Barnes and Noble spot? It looked vacant still.
All Saints is gone???? It wasn't long ago, i asked them if they were still there, and they said yes. I think that was August or September.
I live in the Bay Area San Francisco, And Seattle Has Always Been My Dream City I'd Love To Move To, I Hope Soon. 😉
The way you feel about walking is the same way I feel about walking. It's therapeutic and I always see interesting things. But I always use my sense of caution and common sense when out.
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Go for it dude. "Just walk" would be better than "Just walk it". Or you can do "Take the risk. Take the walk." I would buy that.
I think that Storyville location on 1st and Madison is closed, at the moment. I hear they use it for training their employees and the one for the public is at Pikes Place Market.
lol Starburnt nice
Indeed... I agree with Mr. Ocean's assessment of Starbucks coffee... Too bad... I think it just might be us and a couple of others though...
@@gi169 no, I agree too. The past 4 to 5 years, something has changed in the flavor quality of SB coffee. Burnt indeed, IMHO.
@@marla591 roastflation???😁😂🤣😅😆
Worked on the corner of 7th and Pine for many years for the phone company, what a shell of its once glorious self around the late 90's-early 2000's. I digress. Sad though.
Oh WOW! This video brought back lots of memories! My immigrant parents ran a neighborhood grocery store across the street from the Sorrento Hotel on Terry Avenue near Madison, so I'm very familar with the current Freeway Park area. A elementary school classmate used to own a large apartment where the Freeway Park currently is and they were forced to move when the park and the freeway got built! I used to walk to their apartment all the time to play with him!
Awesome!
I am trying to figure out the temperature and weather in early June. Like I see people wearing shorts and bubble jackets on the same sidewalk.
Easy June can be amazing here.
Instead of Starbuck's you should try Monorail Espresso on Pike between 5th and 6th ave. Amazing coffee...it's all local! Very good coffee. There are four locations now.
Yeah I’ve tried their coffee. Good stuff.
26:50 anyone know what this area is like these days at night? Is it sketchy between 9pm-12am? Pike & like 1st through Pike & 6th seems fine during the day but trying to gauge if its better to uber a few blocks or not in that area
❤️ I love Ivars!!!
Pretty there
let's do a walk through of the new convention center the summit
I love Gumbo too! My mom made the best😊❤️
would love to see a walk in bellevue
I drove through Seattle and the homeless were everywhere along the interstate. I don’t go into Seattle often but people I know who work there tell me a totally different story. The homeless are spreading out all over the state. In Gig Harbor there are a lot of brazen thefts and it’s a lot worse in Seattle.
So whats the weather like this time of year? I see its about 68F average but sometimes that feels chilly and sometimes its a perfect temp.
60 - 80 which to me is perfect lol
Hey, really loving your videos. Greetings from Bournemouth, UK. Been subscribed to your channel for a while now. I make similar content here in my hometown. May I ask what set up your are using here? Is it a chest mount and an action camera? Looking forward to future content!
Hey there and thanks for watching! Will have to check out your videos. For this particular video I used a GoPro 10 with a magnetic chest mount.
@@LaoOcean Many thanks! I’m using the DJI Action 2 + Pocket 2. See you in the next video. Have a great weekend!
@@explorizm Yeah the Picker 2 is my favorite. Thanks.
I love Gumbo…my mom made the best naturally 😊🌷
Lao do you ever go to Cherry Street Coffee? Are their cafes still around?
I do. Will visit them in an upcoming video.
@@LaoOcean awesome! Thanks for your reply. I haven't been to a Cherry Street establishment since 2014 so was hoping they were still open and if so, whether or not the coffee was still any good. Hope to return to WA in the fall and enjoy some myself.
Have u been to the newly open M2M Mart on Capitol Hill. A cool store of Hmart. Check it out if u have not been there yet.
No yet but I may have have to check it out!
Seems very desolate for a large city at midday during the week. Wonder why.
Seattle and King County ranked as the third area in the nation with the most homeless people in 2020, recording roughly 11,700 people living on the streets. Washington state ranks fifth across the country for its homeless population, at 30 people per 10,000 residents.
I'll be moving to the area soon from Florida and I have to admit, I'm finding it difficult to reconcile the vastly different images of Seattle that you get by watching different walking/driving tours of the city. Some videos make it look like some sort of post-apocalyptic wasteland, completely overtaken by homeless camps that are populated with violent drug addicts and criminals. In other videos, like this one, it seems like a really amazing city that I can't wait to walk around and explore with my children. I assume that there are indeed very bad areas that should be avoided but it's hard to grasp the extent of the problem. In some videos, it's said that in order to get to the nice areas, you have no choice but to put yourself in danger by passing through the bad areas.
Is this true? Are the bad areas just limited to very small sections of the city, or are they widespread? What's your best estimate? Are we talking 5% bad/95% good, a 50/50 split? Would you advise against exploring the city on foot with children (from a public safety standpoint)?
I wouldn’t know how to give it a percentage but there are just a few hotspots in my opinion. I’m able to access what I need without feeling threatened. Seattle is no NY or LA, but it is a growing cutie showing big city behavior. Just be aware and alert and you’ll be fine. I walk everywhere in my videos. Check them out.
Looks better than any downtown in Texas ! I love to visit Seattle. The Christmas Tree Town !
I'm also trying to move to Seattle from Florida...just trying to get a job offer 😅. Good luck on your move. Also, I agree with the difference in videos too.
Seattle downtown is terrible a lot of crimes I work in the tech field is all bad in downtown seattle
Starbucks aint bad if you get the right stuff there; Its great for frappes and cold brews. Their main selling point is sweet coffees; not really a great place for a latte though.
Tully's
My Greek friend pronounces it as "Year-Row" so the G in Gyro is silent!
Awesome!
Jaywalker!
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as someone who lives in sweden man american city's are just gargantuan
Should of watch this video prior to going there from CALI, got my car smash at 1st and Seneca and they took my luggage and my bro in law insulin. Someone was kind enough to provide pictures of the thief vehicle but he was long gone.
Kinda weird to see so few people out and about in those areas… seems like people are abandoning Seattle…
where the peoples are
I do not recommend traveling to Seattle, it is unsafe and there are a lot of homeless people and drug addicts. I arrived a week ago and it was depressing to see the state it is in.
a friend of mine said the exact same thing, every third person on the street seemed like a crack-zombie ...
Depends on where you go. I went last week to the area near Pike Place and went over to the area near KEXP and it all seemed fine. There have grown to be a lot of areas that are unsafe and depressing but there certainly are enough nice parts to make up for it
I'm trying to figure out if its really that unsafe around the farmers market, I think 1st and Pike?
In 2018 it seemed fine during the day but if I gotta walk 5 blocks is that high risk?
Like 👍 from Ufa Russian Federation.
The city looks kind of dead
But very hollow
I'd love to move the Seattle but I'm pro gun so I guess I can't enjoy the city while armed
You need to get together with Nick Johnson. His videos all portray Seattle as a wasteland full of homeless people full of comments from folks saying how they can’t wait to leave Seattle. Lots of his commenters are racist so you have to be prepared for that if you do a joint video with him or go on his.
Concrete jungle. If you are not prone to cement and more cement with no personalty, this city may not be for you......
I'm gay
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I worked Corporate downtown till late 2019.
There was a lot more people/ cars even at 11:00am. Covid has impacted downtown Seattle. Pacific Place was a vibrant mall. This is sad.
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