Bicycling Ruston Way

Join us as we bicycle this historic area. Ruston Way is located in Tacoma, and Ruston Washington. In the 1800's the Ruston Way area was a mining town. In 1888 a smelter was built to extract the metals from the ore. William Rust was overseeing the smelter, the growing town was named after him, Ruston. In 1985 the EPA closed the smelter due to the contamination caused from the smelting process. In 1993 the smelter plant was demolished. A developer, Point Ruston LLC, purchased the land and took on the responsibility to remediate the land. In 2006 the development project began. Now the area is cleaned, an array of condo's, apartments, shops, restaurants and recreational activities are throughout the newly constructed complex.