Fremont Cut

Fremont Cut

The Fremont Cut is a part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal—which passes through the city of U.S. city of Seattle, Washington, linking Lake Washington to Puget Sound—that connects Lake Union to the east with Salmon Bay to the west. It is convert|5800|ft|m long and convert|270|ft|m wide. The center channel is convert|100|ft|m wide and convert|30|ft|m deep. It is spanned by the Fremont Bridge, a bascule drawbridge--which connects the neighborhoods of Fremont and Queen Anne via Fremont Avenue North. A campus of Adobe Systems is located at the south-eastern quadrant of this intersection of bridge and canal, and an office of Google is located on the north-eastern quadrant.


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