Beacon Hill in Seattle WA

If you are sick and tired of staying at hotels in Seattle, then you might just want to consider moving out of your comfort zone and getting to explore some of the neighbourhoods in Seattle. Of course this only makes sense if you are planning to stay here for the longer term, but nothing prevents you from just going down to a place like Beacon Hill just to explore!

1. Headquarters of the bookstore to the world

One of the most famous resident's of Beacon Hill (if one can term the corporate headquarters of an organization a resident) is Amazon. The company has been headquartered in Beacon Hill for the longest time and continues to remain a staunch favourite of visitors who want to check out what it looks like. If you happen to be around the neighbourhood, maybe you too could check it out and what's more! Get a photograph clicked right by the main lobby!

http://www.amazon.com

2. Interesting trivia

Did you know that Beacon Hill in Seattle was named thus after the original Beacon Hill in Boston Massachusetts? Or that the northern part of Beacon hill has some of the finest, still standing examples of what has architecturally come to be termed as 'Seattle Box Houses'? Of that the place, which was once known as Boeing Hill, is now predominantly populated by Asian immigrants? Well, you can discover a lot of interesting fact like these on the Wikipedia site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_Hill,_Seattle

3. The view from the Outside in

What better way to discover a place than to have its long term residents tell you all the secrets? Well, that is exactly what this website does. It brings together actual people who live in Beacon Hill and they share secrets about their favourite stores, tucked away delicatessens, secret locations and the like with you. Might make your actual trip that much more interesting!

http://outside.in/North_Beacon_Hill_Seattle_WA