Pike Street

Pike Street

The Washington State Convention Center straddles Pike Street at 7th Avenue
Type	Arterial street
Maintained by	Seattle Department of Transportation
Location	Seattle
West end	Pike Place in Downtown Seattle
Major junctions	Interstate 5, Broadway, Madison Street
East end	Lake Washington Boulevard in Madrona
Construction
Inauguration	1869 (1869)

Pike Street is an east-west street in Seattle. It extends from Pike Place above Seattle's saltwater waterfront at Elliott Bay through Downtown Seattle, across Capitol Hill to the freshwater shore of Lake Washington at Lake Washington Boulevard. A segment less than a block long exists at Alaskan Way on Elliott Bay, connected to the rest of the street only by the pedestrian Pike Street Hill Climb; the bottom of the hillclimb under the Alaskan Way Viaduct was the original shoreline of the city before major modification and construction of the Seattle Seawall.^[1] It is included in the south-to-north mnemonic "Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest" for the street layout of Seattle.^[2]