Edmonds Movers
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The story Edmonds tells about itself begins in 1870. Logger George Brackett paddled south from Port Gardner, looking for timber, and was forced ashore by a squall. He liked what he saw enough to come back and buy the land. Brackett’s Landing, the beach beside the ferry dock, still carries his name, and the town that grew from his logging operation has never moved its center of gravity away from the water.
Modern Edmonds is the arts town of the Puget Sound shoreline. The Edmonds Center for the Arts, the gallery walks, and the shops and restaurants of the downtown Bowl draw steady crowds. The summer waterfront makes it one of the most visited small downtowns in the region. The Edmonds-Kingston ferry ties the town into the daily life of the Kitsap Peninsula. The Sounder and Amtrak share the shoreline rail line beneath the bluffs.
The geography is part of the identity: the Bowl, the natural amphitheater of streets sloping toward the water, gives much of the town a view and gives movers real grades to plan around. From a view condo above the marina to a mid-century home in Seaview or a new townhouse on Highway 99, Royalty Moving & Storage works all of Edmonds.
Edmonds is a city of roughly 43,000 residents on Puget Sound in southwest Snohomish County, about 15 miles north of downtown Seattle. SR-104 carries ferry traffic through town to the Edmonds-Kingston run, one of the busiest routes in the state ferry system, and SR-99 and SR-524 connect the city east to I-5. The Sounder north line and Amtrak Cascades stop at Edmonds Station on the waterfront.
The downtown Bowl slopes from Ninth Avenue down to the beach, holding the arts district, the fountain roundabout at Fifth and Main, and one of the most walkable town centers on the Sound.
The shoreline here lies within the traditional territory of Coast Salish peoples, whose villages and shellfish grounds lined this coast for millennia. George Brackett’s 1870 landing began the logging era, and he platted the town and named it Edmonds, with incorporation following in 1890. Shingle mills crowded the waterfront for decades, their output earning the town a reputation as a shingle capital before the timber economy faded.
The ferry connection reshaped the town in the 20th century, and the postwar decades filled the plateau neighborhoods. From the 1970s onward, Edmonds rebuilt its downtown around arts and small businesses. The strategy produced the gallery walks, a performing arts center in a restored 1939 school auditorium, and the visitor economy that now defines the Bowl.
The Bowl is the planning challenge. Streets drop toward the water at real grades, and parking is tight in the downtown blocks. Some view homes sit on narrow lanes where a full-size truck needs careful positioning or a smaller shuttle vehicle. We scout these properties in advance.
Ferry traffic is the other variable. SR-104 backs up through town around sailings, especially summer weekends, and we route and schedule moves to stay out of the holding lanes.
Waterfront condo buildings involve elevator reservations and loading rules that we confirm with management before move day, and the plateau neighborhoods east of Ninth are straightforward, gridded, and easy for trucks.
Beyond Edmonds, our crews cover the south Snohomish County cities, the communities along the Puget Sound waterfront, and neighborhoods right across the greater Seattle area.
Bowl view home or Highway 99 townhouse, we have the route mapped. Call (206) 278-2134 or fill out the form for a same-day response.
From a few hundred dollars for a small apartment to a few thousand for a large view home. We quote flat from a walkthrough or inventory, and the quote holds.