Seattle Waterfront’s much-anticipated Pier 58 has been making strides since it first broke ground in 2022. Beached between the Seattle Aquarium and Miner’s Landing, the pier’s rebuild and redesign aims to reshape how people interact and experience Seattle’s new waterfront.
Ready for a whale of a time? Here are some of Pier 58’s newest features:
The playground
Designed using community feedback, the new playground structures merge three initial concepts presented by locals: pier piles, waves, and sea creatures. The pièce de résistance is the playground’s 25-ft tall, jellyfish-shaped climbing tower, flanked by an 18-ft slide, crab wobble boards, and a “kelp forest.”
In addition to its artistic elements, the play area accommodates wheelchair navigation and includes accessible interactive features around the main jellyfish structure.
Neighboring benches offer parents chaperoning visibility and views of Elliott Bay — and on a clear day, the Olympic mountain range.
Community amenities
Aside from the playground, a communal area for all ages will include the following features:
- Permanently installed benches
- A tree grove dividing the pier from Alaskan Way traffic
- A landscaped, elevated lawn
- Plaza space between the play area and lawn
- A restored version of the Fitzgerald Fountain (which went overboard when the original pier collapsed)
- Public restrooms with six all-gender stalls just across from the pier
Come spring of 2025, Pier 58 will open to the public along with new park promenade bike lanes, art installations by Puyallup Artist Qwalsius-Shaun Peterson, and a series of Waterfront Park Grand Opening celebration events.
It’s shore to be a good time.... sea what we did there? Sorry, we couldn’t kelp ourselves. It’s over-krill at this point.
