Using transit, it is easy to create a loop trip or shorter segment. From a central point at Everett Transit Center, the Everett Transit #6 bus goes to the west side on West Marine View Dr, as far north as Waterfront Place (more on this below), and on the east side bus #4 goes to near Riverside Park (stop on Walnut and 25th St), and as north on Walnut and East Marine View Drive as far north as Broadway.
My recommendation is to start Riverside Park and walk to Waterfront Place (about five miles), or for a shorter excursion, catch a bus back before Broadway. The east side of the "U" has better views of nature and physical history.
The City of Everett has the zero mile post for the Mill Town Trail (MTT) at Pigeon Beach. The MTT initially follows the Pigeon Creek Trail and Terminal Ave, before heading north on West Marine View Drive (a highway). To legally get from the WTA Mill Town Trail trailhead pin to Pigeon Beach is over a mile walk 'in the wrong direction". To access the MTT more directly It is better to use the WTA pin for the Pigeon Creek trailhead. If you are using transit, I would head directly for some point on West Marine View Dr and walk north.
The dominate view along the Pigeon Creek Trail is fence lines, buildings, the sides of shipping containers and asphault. For the mile of Terminal Ave and West Marine View to Naval Station Everett, the scenery is mostly concrete, cars, and the sides of buildings, with a few peek-a-boo views of the Olympic Mountains. North of Naval Station, the land has still been scrapped of its Mill Town history, but the esplanade and perimeter trail around Waterfront Place development, offers a more diverse visual experience -- some man-made and some natural, and there are interesting interpretive signs on the history. There are nice public restrooms on 10th St, at the boat launch. Bus #6 make a few stops in along Waterfront Place so walks can be started or ended here. From here north is were the is the best viewing of waterfowl, birds and sea life.
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