Gas prices near 98133

Aurora Avenue North, the old Route 99, is the pump corridor here. It runs the eastern edge of Bitter Lake and Haller Lake about nine miles north of downtown, and most of the stations sit along it rather than tucked into the quiet residential blocks toward Broadview and Puget Sound. If you stay west of Greenwood Avenue North you will pass almost no fuel at all, so locals already know to drift back east toward Aurora when the tank runs low.

Washington carries one of the steepest fuel-tax loads in the country once the state gas tax and the Climate Commitment Act carbon charge are stacked on top of the federal excise, so the posted number on Aurora reflects a real tax premium, not gouging by any single station. That makes the spread between a busy high-volume station and a slow one worth chasing.

Two things move price in this stretch. Stations right at the North 145th Street line edge toward Shoreline competition, and the membership and grocery fuel a short drive away tends to undercut the standalone Aurora pumps. Checking a couple of options before you commit usually beats grabbing the first canopy you see.