Redlining Heritage Trail - Pioneer Square

Part of a much larger 14-mile route, this section of the Redlining Heritage Trail encircles the Pioneer Square neighborhood of downtown Seattle.

This section begins at the National Park Service Klondike Gold Rush museum site on Jackson and 2nd. Turn left towards the water, and walk a block to S. Main street, then turn north and walk through Occidental Square Park. 

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Turn left (again, towards the water) and walk a block and a half to the water. This site marks the former Native American restricted pier, the only place that Native people were allowed to haul out canoes and live in the city after 1865.

Double back and walk east along Washington Street 6 blocks to 2nd Ave S. Before you turn right, take a look across the street at the Chief Seattle Club, which provides housing and programming for Native people in Seattle today. 

Continuing on, it's one block down to the ILWU warehouse, built in 1900, it no longer houses ILWU, but the union is still active today. The corner of S Jackson and 4th Street marks the next landmark, the Canton Building, built by Chin Gee Hee in 1889 (one of the first to go up after the Seattle fire. It has been many businesses over the years, but it's one of the last piece of Seattle's early Chinatown. 

Look across Jackson at the clock tower and large brick building of King Street Station, the final stop on this leg of the Redlining tour. For many, this was their introduction to the city of Seattle, whether they were coming for the gold rush, as train porters or as day laborers.