“Though the full 20 acres won’t open until early spring, an acrobatic section of the park welcomed the public Oct. 4. The Overlook Walk rises in a pair of curved stairways where the promenade takes a sharp turn inland around a new Ocean Pavilion serving the Seattle Aquarium. As visitors ascend a 110-foot bluff, culminating at the city’s famous Pike Place Market, vistas of downtown skyscrapers and the cranes of the container port open up, as does a moody expanse of Puget Sound (now increasingly referred to as the Salish Sea) that even on an inevitable gray day can offer views of mist-wrapped islands and mountains below a pewter plane of clouds. (Elevators serve the mobility-challenged and those who think only fitness fanatics would climb so many stairs.)”
— James S. Russell

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