Bremerton

Bremerton is a city in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. The population was 39,051 at the 2011 State Estimate, making it the largest city on the Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas. Bremerton is home to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap. Bremerton is connected to downtown Seattle by a 55-minute ferry route, which carries both vehicles and walk-on passengers along a 17 mile sailing to Seattle. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 26.0 square miles (67.5 km²), of which, 22.7 square miles (58.7 km²) of it is land and 3.4 square miles (8.8 km²) of it (12.98%) is water.

Education: Public schools are operated by the Bremerton School District and Central Kitsap School District. College level education is offered by Olympic College.

Sports and recreation: Bremerton is home to the Kitsap BlueJackets baseball team of the summer collegiate West Coast League. It is also the home of the Kitsap Pumas soccer team in the USL Premier Development League (PDL).