Clyde Beach Park is a 2.23 acre swimming beach at the foot of 92nd Avenue NE in Bellevue, Washington, on the north shore of Meydenbauer Bay. Despite the name it has nothing to do with the neighboring town of Clyde Hill, and Medina has no role either. The City of Bellevue owns and operates it through Parks and Community Services, the park phone is 425-452-6885, and it is open to anyone with no residency requirement and no posted admission or parking charge.

The site was a ferry dock called Peterson's Landing before it picked up the Clyde name from Clyde Avenue, the road built in the early 1900s that is now 92nd Avenue NE. Bellevue inherited a quarter acre parcel here from King County when the city incorporated in 1953, bought adjoining land in 1968 for $17,000, and built the park out the following year. A further 1.16 acre purchase in November 1984 sat undeveloped for years while neighbors fought the plans, and the additions were not finished until 1997. The small boathouse at the water is the piece most visitors remember.

The swim area is roped off with float lines close to shore. Bellevue's beach rules require swimmers to stay inside those lines, keep inner tubes and floats in the shallow section, and pass a swim test supervised by the lifeguard staff before going into deep water. Diving from docks and ramps, swimming under floats and swimming in boat launch areas are all prohibited. Dogs are banned from every Bellevue beach park between June 1 and September 15.

Lifeguards work noon to 7 p.m. daily, but Clyde gets the short season. In 2026 it was staffed July 4 through August 16, while Meydenbauer Bay, Newcastle and Chism ran June 27 through September 7. Plan around that if a guarded beach matters to you, and check the city's Beach Parks with Lifeguards page first, since Bellevue posts swim area closures for staffing shortages and bacteria there.

Water quality is worth understanding before you go. King County samples freshwater swim beaches across the county through the summer, and in Bellevue that program covers Enatai, Meydenbauer and Newcastle. Clyde Beach is not on King County's sampled list, so there is no routine bacteria reading published for this specific beach. The nearest monitored water is the beach at Meydenbauer Bay Park, less than a kilometer southeast around the same bay.

Amenities are modest and in good shape: restrooms, an outdoor beach shower, picnic tables, a playground for ages 5 to 12 and a separate tot lot for ages 2 to 5. Parking is a small lot at the street end with accessible stalls, and it fills on hot weekends because the park sits at the end of a residential dead end with no overflow. Gates open 30 minutes before sunrise and close 30 minutes after sunset.

Bellevue lists Clyde as one of its non-motorized watercraft launch sites, so kayaks, canoes and paddleboards can go in from here. There is no rental concession on site. The city's contracted rentals operate out of the Meydenbauer Bay and Enatai boathouses instead, so bring your own boat to Clyde.