March 18

Ready, set, go! Test your neighborhood knowledge and compete in the Queen Anne Street Scramble

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Street Scramble team mapping out Queen Anne

Seattle-based MerGeo, an outdoor lifestyle event company, is bringing its Street Scramble adventure to Queen Anne for the first time on Saturday, March 30th – and Queen Anne locals have a key advantage… we know the neighborhood!

Street Scrambles are part scavenger hunt, part race – teams and individuals receive maps with checkpoints and a time limit to visit as many of those points as possible. Each checkpoint has a point value and competitors choose their own route to reach each one. Proof you’ve marked it off? A multiple choice question for each site, with point values varied based on difficulty.

Street Scramble mapper on one
of our 120 staircases

We all know that our neighborhood has many notable guide-book spots as well as hidden gems, and you can leverage your Queen Anne knowledge in the Street Scramble – unfair? Nope, just an advantage for Queen Anne locals. You can sign up as an individual or gather a team together, and you can compete as a runner, walker, or cyclist, and strollers are welcome!

Participants have 30 minutes to plan routes before the race clock begins – this is where you can use the ace in your pocket, your local Queen Anne insight, to your advantage. Then, the race begins and everyone scrambles to cover the neighborhood, mark off the checkpoints, and return to the finish line.

There are 11 award categories, including three for family teams. Preregistration is open until Thursday, March 28, and you can also sign up onsite the day of the Scramble (arrive at 8:30am for same-day registration).

According to course designer, Eric Bone:

“Queen Anne is a new neighborhood for Street Scramble, and I’m very excited about it… The geography of the Queen Anne neighborhood, with its views in many directions, green spaces, and proximity to diverse surrounding neighborhoods and Puget Sound, offers many interesting checkpoint locales.”

And, a sneak peek – here’s the mapping crew in action on Queen Anne:

Key Details:

  • Start/Finish is the Queen Anne Baptist Church, 2011 1st Ave N
  • March 30th: planning stage begins at 9:30am; race begins at 1oam
  • course covers all of Queen Anne – both Upper and Lower/Uptown
  • there are two course options: 90 minutes and 3 hours
  • you can walk, run, or bike the course
  • walkers have a 90 minute limit, and may stay close to base
  • runners/cyclists have a 3 hour limit, and could run as far as 2-3 miles from base, touching the edges of other neighborhoods
  • the Scramble includes a mix of environments: parks, residential streets, shopping areas, waterfronts, industrial areas and pockets of forested areas throughout Queen Anne

To register, visit the Street Scramble website – and let us know if you or a team are planning to participate! Let’s see some Queen Anne locals win this one!


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Queen Anne, street scramble


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