It is awesome place to take your family or friends.kids love the boats levelling while their routes. Beautiful views all around and not much crowd on weekends..

The locks are a beautiful place to visit. You can see the salmons swimming underwater in the ladder. Every hour someone from the nearby visitors center comes by and explains more about it. Walking by the locks you can meet fishermen and seals swimming. It's...More

The Ballard Locks is located in Seattle, WA near Magnolia and Ballard neighborhood. A long time ago this was an ideal area to build a Navy shipyard but with delays in the planning and construction of the canal it was later built in Bremerton under...More

The locks were both great to see and later to pass through. They work by gravity and make for an interesting lesson on the tides and water levels.

This was an interesting thing to see how the boats are lifted up and down with the locks ! Watching the salmon jump was also exciting!

We barely saw the locks because we spent so kkuch time watching the fish swimjing thru the ladder. A good explanation of the ladder system is provided. We hot lucky and probably saw a few dozen fish that day.

This was a pleasant surprise on our trip! It was fun watching the boats come in and out of the locks - we got lucky that there was a lot of activity that day. The salmon ladder was the most interesting part. There were quite...More