Visiting the Fremont Troll in Seattle Washington
The Fremont Troll is a large 15 tall sculpture of a troll that lives under a bridge in Seattle Washington.
The Troll is located under the Aurora bridge that carries state route 99, in the neighborhood of Fremont. The Troll was originally built in the 1990's to clean up an area that had become a haven for drug dealers. Now it's a haven for tourists!
This is definitely one of those wild and wacky things to do in Seattle. But if you're like me, and you like the quirky attractions, go check out the Fremont Troll.
18' Tall Fremont Troll Statue!- Seattle, WA
Derek Deek Diedricksen, on his way to building a custom tree house for a client in Monroe, WA, swings by The Fremont Troll, a rebar, wire, and cement statue created in 1990 under the Aurora Bridge by a team of artisans known as The Jersey Devils. This 18' statue is a fun (AND FREE) tourist attraction (close to the Vladimir Lenin statue) in Fremont, WA- and pretty easy to find (it shows up as an icon on most Google Maps)
And yes, its a REAL Volkswagon Beetle Car that the troll is clutching....
Lets Visit Gasworks Park in Seattle + Fremont Troll + Gum Wall At Pike Place Market
???????? Tour Gasworks Park in Seattle along with other noted city landmarkks such as the Fremont Troll and The Gum Wall at the Pike Place Market. Join real estate expert and Seattle native Sean Reynolds as he takes you on a tour of Seattle's top 3 most popular tourist destinations.
We will go to the Troll underneath the Fremont Bridge, located in the Fremont Neighborhood, just north of downtown Seattle. We will look at and visit the history of Gasworks Park, an old gas refinery that the Seattle of Seattle turned from a toxic wasteland into a really nice waterfront park for the citizens of Seattle. And finally, lets check out the Gum Wall at Pike Place market. Yep, pretty gross!!! Let's look at it anyway.
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Hi, I'm Sean Reynolds, the owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal. Welcome to another episode of Only in Seattle. We are at the site of Gas Works Park in Seattle today.
So today we're going to check out Gas Works Park, which we're at now. Then we're going ahead to the troll underneath the Aurora bridge that's pretty close by and then we're gonna run into Downtown Seattle and go to the pike place market and check out what I consider to be the creepiest thing about the pike place market.
So Gas Works Park, one of the weirdest parks in all of Seattle and possibly one of the top weirdest parks and all the world. And what makes it so special is that this was an actual gasification plant that was run from 1906 to 1956. And then the city of Seattle bought it and made it into what it is today, and many of the original structures from the gasification plant, as you can see in the background here, were left as part of the park and a lot of the debris and the concrete from the original structures is underneath the ground and has been built up with dirt, kind of went through a toxic cleansing process and you can see what it is today. And we've actually got an artificial kite hill. You can run a kite down, launch it, get it going, and at the top there's this crazy sun dial that is also part of one of the exhibits.
A few things about this park is that it's an excellent place to watch the 4th of July fireworks. Those are just crazy huge. There's a massive display here and this is also the beginning of the Seattle naked bike ride. That's an important cultural event here in Seattle. So Gas Works Park was also featured in the movie Singles and also in 10 things I Hate About You. Same one as in the troll that we're going to see here shortly. And one of the kind of special features about Gas Works Park is that it's another example of how the city of Seattle is taking something that was a real negative.
This was like a real urban blight, a gasification plant that had been shut down. What do you deal with it? Well, they took it and created it into this really cool waterfront park that's got a lot of features and a lot of stuff going on and yet they still left some of the original structure so that people know kind of what its origins were and now it's just a major destination and a really cool place for people to come and visit and hang out.
The Fremont Troll, also known as the troll under the bridge, is an 18 foot tall public sculpture in Seattle's Quirky Fremont neighborhood. What's crazy about this 1300 pound troll is that it's entirely made out of rebar, wire, and concrete. The artists that created the troll wanted to turn trash into an interactive piece of art. Visitors are encouraged to climb on him and poke out his hubcap eye also clutching a Volkswagen car with a California license plate. The Fremont troll is bizarre and truly something you can only find in Seattle. Now we're headed down to the Seattle waterfront to check out one of pike place market, weirdest attractions.
You've probably heard of pike place market. Uh, it's one of the biggest public markets and most well known in the world. But what you probably don't know is that one of the strangest attractions, is just down below. Let's go take a look.
We're now at the market theater gum wall and it's in an alleyway just below pike place market. Pike place market is right up there; and upstairs. There's just a ton of gum here. So how did all this get here? It's Kinda just to strange bizarre thing and it goes for probably 40 feet that way and another 40 feet that way. It's on both sides of the alley. How did this get started? So in 1993, there was an Improv theater right around here. And employees, from there, started to put their gum on the wall and they would start to do it in kind of decorations.
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Troll Under the Aurora Bridge in Fremont - Seattle, WA
Fremonsters' pride and joy, a giant troll sculpture devouring a VW Beetle under Seattle's Aurora Bridge in the Fremont neighborhood.
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Troll under the Bridge, Seattle WA
This is the troll under the bridge in Seattle Washington. Pretty sweet. From Wikipedia The Fremont Troll (also known as The Troll, or the Troll Under the Bridge) is a piece of public art in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington in the United States.
The idea of a troll living under a bridge is derived from the Scandinavian folk tale Three Billy Goats Gruff.[citation needed]
The Troll is a mixed media colossal statue, located on N. 36th Street at Troll Avenue N., under the north end of the Aurora Bridge. Aurora Avenue North was renamed Troll Avenue in its honor in 2005. It is clutching an actual Volkswagen Beetle, as if it had just swiped it from the roadway above. The vehicle has a California license plate.[1]
Scary Fremont Troll, Seattle
The legendary troll under the bridge.
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The Fremont Troll
Viernes 28 de Mayo del 2010.Ubicado en la ciudad de Seattle el Troll de fremont es una de las atracciones turisticas de Seattle el VOCHO es un carro real....se acuerdan de la pelicula 101 cosas que odio de ti ??? filmada en Seattle...Commuters in Seattle must contend with not only congestion but a voracious, vehicle consuming troll that lies in the Fremont neighborhood (the Center of the Universe) under the heavily-trafficked Aurora Bridge. For twenty years this cement and metal monster -- perfectly harmless, really -- has manned his post at the end of Troll Avenue, quietly clutching a life-size Volkswagen Beatle. Erected in 1990 following a national competition officiated by the Fremont Art Council, the monument is a work by sculptor Steve Badanes and his team. This mythic giant is a likely mascot for the Fremont neighborhood's anti-establishment aesthetic. But the awesome ogre mostly stands as a jungle gym for the enclave's adoring children.
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