Ballard will be pretty quiet on Thanksgiving Day — aside from the thousands who plan to build up an appetite by trotting through Sunset Hill in the morning.
The annual Turkey Trot will kick off Thanksgiving Day at 85th and 32nd at 9am, with the 5k-ers to head south on 34th, then back north on Seaview to Golden Gardens. (Here’s the map)
Many places will be shut for the day, but here are a few Ballard businesses that plan to open:
- Ballard Market, open until 4pm.
- Fred Meyer, open from 7am to 4pm.
- Cupcake Royale, open normal hours until 4pm.
- The Old Pequliar (1722 NW Market St.) opens at noon, and the kitchen opens at 4pm
- The Crooked Nail (1556 NW 56th St.) will open at 3pm
- Fitzgerald’s sports bar (5811 24th Ave. NW) will open at 6pm
- The Lockspot Cafe (3005 NW 54th St.) opens at 4pm
- Royal Drummer Cafe (6420 24th Ave.) is open, but closing early at 2pm
- The Stepping Stone (5903 24th Ave.) opens at 6 pm
- Cafe Bambino (405 NW 65th St.) is open from 8am to noon
- Hattie’s Hat is open normal hours, serves Thanksgiving at 3:30pm
- King’s Hardware will be open at 7pm
- Ballard Coffee Works (2060 NW Market St.) is open from 7am to 3pm
- Miri’s at Golden Gardens will be open 9am until noon to feed the Turkey Trotters
- The annual Ray’s Boathouse Thanksgiving buffet may be sold out, so call ahead
What’s closed:
- All US post offices
- Most major banks and credit unions
- Seattle Transfer stations
- Ballard Library
- Ballard Neighborhood Service Center (will remain closed through Saturday, November 28)
- All Seattle Parks and Recreation community centers including Ballard Pool
Things to remember:
- On-street parking is free in Seattle on Thanksgiving Day.
- King County Metro Transit bus routes are operating on a Sunday schedule Thanksgiving Day and will run on a reduced weekly schedule on Friday, November 23, with no UW campus service.
- Garbage, food and yard waste, and recycling will not be picked up in Seattle on Thanksgiving Day. Collections scheduled for Thursday will occur on Friday, and Friday collections will occur on Saturday due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Please be sure to have your containers out by 7 a.m. to ensure collection.
Photo from a previous year’s Turkey Trot
“Ballard will be pretty quiet on Thanksgiving Day ”
HAHAHAAHA
You mean BESIDES the sirens, screaming junkies, crazy hobos and degenerates doing their daily parade around the neighborhood? I’m sure it will be really quiet at QFC on 24th with all the felons out front feeling sorry for themselves that they don’t get any turkey dinner. Let’s see how many police and ambo calls we can get the Library/Commons. What a sad sad joke.
I’ll bet you 20$ there’s at least three robbery attempts at QFC from junkies at the hobo hotel next door trying to steal their hard-earned “deserved” Turkey dinner.
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