Seattle is located on peninsula surrounded by several different waterways: Puget Sound to the west, Elliott Bay to the south and Lake Washington to the east. Salmon Bay, Lake Union and Union Bay ...

Locals typically call them the Ballard Locks, because of their location within Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, northwest of downtown. The facility features two side-by-side locks, including a ...

SEATTLE — Thousands of people are without power in Ballard, according to the Seattle City Light (SCL) outage map. SCL posted that outages were affecting parts of the Ballard area on X.

The locks are free to visit daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and are located in northwest Seattle's Ballard district, north of downtown and about 6 miles west of the University of Washington.