Yesler Way

Yesler Way

Yesler Way at 1st Avenue, looking east from the bottom of the hill.
Former name(s)	Mill Street
Namesake	Henry Yesler
Maintained by	Seattle Department of Transportation
Length	2.2 mi (3.5 km)
Location	Seattle
West end	Alaskan Way at Colman Dock
Major junctions	Broadway at Yesler Terrace
East end	Leschi Park

Yesler Way is an east–west street in Seattle named for Henry Yesler. East–west streets in Seattle south of Yesler Way are prefixed “South”; avenues are suffixed with “South” as they cross Yesler Way. The street originates at Alaskan Way on the downtown Seattle waterfront and runs east through Yesler Terrace, the Central District, and Leschi to just east of 32nd Avenue, where the arterial route switches to Lake Dell Avenue. A short residential segment of East Yesler Way, which it turns into east of Broadway, exists to the west of Lake Washington Boulevard.

In the 1850s, when freshly cut logs were sent down the steep street, the street was referred to as Skid Road, which became as Skid Row in other cities.