Private Seattle Engineering Tour: Floating Bridge, Locks, Tunnel

Seattle is often described as one of the most engineered cities in the United States, and this private four-hour tour shows you why.

Built between saltwater and freshwater, on steep hills, unstable soil and in an active seismic zone, Seattle has needed complex engineering to work as a modern city. You'll see the I-90 floating bridge, the SR-99 tunnel, the rebuilt seawall, the Seattle Central Library, Fishermen's Terminal, Gas Works Park and the Ballard Locks, and along the Elliott Bay Trail, keep an eye out for Boeing 737 fuselages riding the rails. Each stop connects to the problem it was built to solve.

Your guide is a lifelong Seattle local, and it's just your group in a private minivan or our white Ford shuttle.

How pricing works: this is a private tour priced for your whole group, up to 13 guests. The total is the same for 1 to 4 guests, and each guest after that adds less, so the price per person drops as your group grows.