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Bigelow Neighborhood

Bigelow Neighborhood, also called the Bigelow Historic District, is a historic district located on the eastside of Olympia, Washington.

Bigelow Neighborhood
Bigelow Neighborhood · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Bigelow Neighborhood, also called the Bigelow Historic District, is a historic district located on the eastside of Olympia, Washington. It is located along Olympia Avenue, between East Bay Drive and Tullis Street.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bigelow Neighborhood

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Washington State Capitol

    The Washington State Capitol in Olympia is the home of the government of the state of Washington. It contains the chambers of the Washington State Legislature, offices for the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and state treasurer.

    2 km · state capitol building of the U.S. state of Washington · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Deschutes River

    The Deschutes River is a 50-mile-long river in the U.S. state of Washington. The river's course begins in Lewis County.

    3.7 km · tributary to Capitol Lake in Thurston and Lewis Counties, Washington state, United States of America · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Daniel R. Bigelow House

    The Bigelow House, also known as the Bigelow House Museum, is a historic house museum located at 918 Glass Avenue Northeast in the Bigelow Neighborhood of Olympia, Washington. Built by Daniel Bigelow in 1854, the house was designed in the Carpenter Gothic style.

    100 m · historic house museum in Olympia, Washington, U.S. · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Squaxin Park

    Squaxin Park is a public park located in Olympia, Washington. Established in 1905, it was the city's first waterfront park, providing access to the Budd Inlet of Puget Sound.

    2.4 km · city park in Olympia, Washington, United States of America · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sylvester Park

    Sylvester Park is a historic city park in downtown Olympia, Washington listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was donated for public use by Edmund Sylvester in 1850 and was later under the jurisdiction of the state government from 1905 to 1955.

    1.1 km · park in Olympia, Washington, US · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Capital Mall

    Capital Mall is a shopping mall located in Olympia, Washington. The anchor stores are REI, Total Wine & More, Macy's, Dick's Sporting Goods, JCPenney, Best Buy, and Century Theatres.

    3.6 km · shopping mall in Washington, United States · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Olympia Downtown Historic District

    The Olympia Downtown Historic District is a historic district located in Olympia, Washington, the state's capital. The district, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2004, covers 17 blocks in downtown Olympia and includes 51 contributing properties.

    1 km · building in Washington, United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Artesian Commons

    Artesian Commons is a 0.2-acre pocket park in downtown Olympia, Washington built in May 2014 around an artesian spring. It is described by the city as Olympia's first urban park.

    800 m · park in Olympia, Washington, USA · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Medal of Honor Memorial

    The Medal of Honor Memorial is installed on the Washington State Capitol campus in Olympia, Washington, United States. The granite obelisk was dedicated on November 7, 1976.

    1.8 km · monument in Olympia, Washington · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Territorial Sundial

    The Territorial Sundial by John William Elliot is installed on the Washington State Capitol campus in Olympia, Washington, United States. Dedicated on January 23, 1959, the sundial is made of brass and Wilkeson sandstone, with bronze rods.

    2 km · sculpture in Olympia, Washington, U.S · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Bigelow Neighborhood

Airports
Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 62 km · Portland (PDX), 164 km · Victoria (YYJ), 182 km
Stations
Port of Olympia, 1 km
  • Seattle → Bigelow Neighborhood
    1397 km · quickest by air, 6h 14m · $270–400
  • Portland → Bigelow Neighborhood
    1211 km · quickest by air, 5h 31m · $230–340
  • Spokane → Bigelow Neighborhood
    1286 km · quickest by air, 5h 36m · $230–350
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bigelow Neighborhood

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bigelow Neighborhood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOlympia Regional Airport, in neighboring Tumwater, offers private and charter flights.

From Wikivoyage: Olympia (Washington), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
    Courtenay, Comox and the Comox ValleyCA

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