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Shilshole Bay Marina is a 1400-slip [1] saltwater marina in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, operated by the Port of Seattle.The marina is protected by a 4,000-foot (1,200 m) breakwater, [1] features a roughly 1-mile (1.6 km) public promenade with view of the Olympic Mountains, and includes Leif Erikson Plaza, site of a 16-foot (4.9 m) [2] statue of the Viking Leif Erikson.
Shilshole Bay is the part of Puget Sound east of a line drawn northeasterly from Seattle's West Point in the southwest to its Golden Gardens Park in the northeast. On its shores lie Discovery Park , the Lawton Wood section of the Magnolia neighborhood, the neighborhood of Ballard , and Golden Gardens Park.
It was founded on the harbor of Elliott Bay, home to the Port of Seattle—in 2002, the 9th busiest port in the United States by TEUs of container traffic and the 46th busiest in the world. [2] [3] Seattle is divided in half by the Lake Washington Ship Canal, which connects Lake Washington to Puget Sound.
By October 1931, low-rent housing in Seattle was oversaturated, and a Hooverville began to form in the abandoned Skinner & Eddy land along Elliott Bay, site of present-day (2023) Terminal 46. In its first few months it was twice removed by Seattle Police "sweeps," but eventually a compromise was reached that allowed a shantytown to persist for ...
The locks can elevate a 760-by-80-foot (232 m × 24 m) vessel 26 ft (7.9 m), from the level of Puget Sound at a very low tide to the level of freshwater Salmon Bay, in 10–15 minutes. The locks handle both pleasure boats and commercial vessels, ranging from kayaks to fishing boats returning from the Bering Sea to cargo ships. Over 1 million ...
This is a list of bays in the United States. See also Category:Bays of the United States. ... Shilshole Bay; Skagit Bay; Semiahmoo Bay; Union Bay; Willapa Bay; Wisconsin.
The Terminal is on Salmon Bay in the Interbay neighborhood, east of the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks and immediately west of the Ballard Bridge. Fisherman's Terminal. The Terminal has freshwater mooring for fishing vessels and pleasure craft up to 250 ft (76 m) length. [1] Preference is given to commercial fishing vessels. [2] It serves more than ...
Shilshole elders remembered raids from the Stikine Tlingit, who raided Salmon Bay, capturing or killing anyone they saw. [2] The Haida were another people who were remembered to have raided Salmon Bay. [3] This raiding was likely the reason for their village's location deep inside Salmon Bay, rather than being directly on Puget Sound. [4]