Lake Washington

bays

beach

Denny Blaine Park

boat launch

Kenmore Boat Launch

boulevard

Lake Washington Boulevard

bridge

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge

cape

Webster Point

census-designated place

Bryn Mawr-Skyway, Washington

cities

city parks

clockwise

clockwise around Lake Washington

crossed by

cruise westbound on the canal

Union Bay

eastbound on Interstate 90

Mercer Island, Washington

history

For more than 10,000 years, the Sammamish people have hunted, fished, and gathered on their lands along Lake Washington and the Sammamish River and Lake.
Log Boom Park (historylink.tours) Tracy Owen Station at Log Boom Park is a 3.9-acre park that provides access to over 1,200 lineal feet of shoreline on Kenmore’s Lake Washington waterfront. This shoreline was where early loggers once operated mills and anchored their log booms, clusters of floating logs enclosed within cables. Some of the old pilings from as early as 1902 are still visible. The current 600-foot-long public fishing pier was built over original pilings. The park also features a playground, restrooms, picnic tables, daytime moorage and access to the Burke Gilman Trail. Kayak and paddleboard rentals are available during the summertime.

interurban railway map

The Seattle-Everett Interurban Railway Routes, Then And Now (snohomishcountywa.gov) The data for this map was gleaned from maps in Warren Wing’s To Seattle By Trolley, from a 1910 Plat Book of Snohomish County. from a Thomas Guide map, from an interview with retired interurban motorman Walt Shannon, and by the author, Fred Bird.

island

Mercer Island

lake in

lake people

TLEHLS (“minnows” or “shiners”) [village] was on the shores of what is now called Wolf Bay in Windermere, on Lake Washington south of SqWsEb, now called Magnuson Park.

major roads in 1929

maps

mentions

near

Washington State Route 522

neighborhoods

old names

[Isaac] Ebey was so taken by the lake that he named it Lake Geneva because of the “beauty of the lake and the scenery surrounding it.” That name never took hold. For a time it was referred to as Lake Duwamish and ultimately as Lake Washington.

OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2793848

park

520 Bridge View Park

photographs

random

nephrite

ribbon lake

A ribbon lake, Lake Washington is long, narrow and finger-like. Ribbon lakes are excavated by glaciers.

runs alongside

Burke–Gilman Trail

state route

Washington State Route 520

street end

subreddit

r/LakeSammamish

sunrise

Bellevue Sunrise

tagged

Swamp Creek starts at Lake Stickney near Everett. It ends in Kenmore at the Sammamish River, which then flows into Lake Washington.

tags

towns

trail

520 Trail

tributaries

tributary of

Lake Washington Ship Canal

vantage points

vicinity

Meadowbrook, with Thornton Creek near Lake Washington, has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8,000 BCE—10,000 years ago).

Washington Trails Association

Magnuson Park (wta.org) The trails in Warren G. Magnuson Park are frequented and beloved by locals, but are often overlooked by those just passing through Seattle. The Frog Pond Trail is a series of paths that are part of a wetland reconstruction project that seeks to restore parts of the former military base. They feature ducks, ponds, well-maintained gravel, and a welcome stillness within what is normally a chaotic area. Three of these trails, described below, make up the possible outings at Magnuson Park.
Saint Edward State Park (wta.org) Hike through a diverse century-old second-growth forest with a dense canopy to the undeveloped shoreline of Lake Washington. This historic 316-acre state park, nestled in the midst of the Seattle metropolitan area, has playground facilities for children, picnic areas, trails for mountain bikers and fields for sports teams as well.

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1323525

Wikimedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lake_Washington

Wikipedia

Lake Washington (Wikipedia) Lake Washington (Lushootseed: x̌ačuʔ) is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the largest lake in King County and the second largest natural lake in the state of Washington, after Lake Chelan. It borders the cities of Seattle on the west, Bellevue and Kirkland on the east, Renton on the south, and Kenmore on the north, and encloses Mercer Island. The lake is fed by the Sammamish River at its north end and the Cedar River at its south.