Tag: fremont
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June 22: The 2024 Fremont Solstice Parade will follow shorter route + How to join the naked bike ride
Despite packed crowds last year, the 2024 Fremont Solstice Parade will return to a shortened route it used in 2022. But that won’t stop hundreds of people from stripping down, painting their bodies and biking together ahead of the parade as they have for decades (you can learn more about the history of the ride…
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The 2023 Fremont Solstice Parade will mark 30 years of naked people crashing the parade on bikes + How to join
The Fremont Solstice Parade is perhaps Seattle’s happiest day of the year, and that’s in no small part thanks to the explosion of brave creativity that is the pre-parade bike ride featuring hundreds of people using their bodies as art canvases. The solstice bike ride is still an unofficial part of the Solstice Parade, but…
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SPU plans temporary bikeway during Stone Way overflow pipe construction starting late January
Seattle’s least-discussed megaproject is coming to Stone Way in Fremont/Wallingford, but crews have plans to maintain space for biking and walking. Seattle Public Utilities’ Ship Canal Water Quality Project is estimated to total $570 million, a cost that could still increase before it is complete, the Seattle Times reported. The project will build large new…
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N 34th Street bike lanes fix some of the challenges near the Fremont Bridge
The latest upgrade to the bike connections around the Fremont Bridge make some very significant improvements, though larger solutions are still needed to make it truly comfortable for people of all ages and abilities. The Burke-Gilman Trail is the region’s busiest bike trail, and it travels under the Fremont Bridge, which is the region’s busiest…
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Fremont Solstice Parade (and painted bike ride) cancelled for 2020
It’s not a surprise, but the 2020 Fremont Solstice Parade has officially been cancelled. And that means the annual painted bike ride is also cancelled. Of course the ride and parade shouldn’t happen amid the outbreak, but it’s still tough news. The Solstice Parade and the pre-parade painted bike ride are among the iconic events…
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Ballard-Fremont Greenways launches Wednesday, and you’re invited
Ballard and Fremont have both had local chapters of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways in the past, but they have been quiet in recent years. So some neighbors are organizing to bring the neighborhoods together into a new supergroup, and you’re invited. The group is hosting a launch party 6 p.m. Wednesday at Peddler Brewing. From the…
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