Seattle Area Beaches
Leavenworth, Washington
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47°33'56.3"N 122°11'19.8"W Maps | Directions |
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- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel & camp on durable surfaces
- Dispose of waste properly
- Leave what you find
- Minimize campfire impacts
- Respect wildlife
- Be considerate of other visitors
Directions
From Leavenworth, Washington
- Head south on Evans St toward US-2 W (52 ft)
- Turn left onto US-2 E (4.3 mi)
- Take the ramp to US-97 S (0.3 mi)
- Turn right onto US-97 S (35.2 mi)
- Continue straight onto WA-970 W (9.7 mi)
- Continue onto WA-10 W/WA-903 Spur (0.1 mi)
- Turn left toward WA-10/WA-970 (174 ft)
- Continue onto WA-10/WA-970 (0.1 mi)
- Turn left to stay on WA-10/WA-970 (0.2 mi)
- Merge onto I-90 W via the ramp to Seattle (75.8 mi)
- Take exit 10 for Interstate 405 S toward Renton (0.8 mi)
- Merge onto I-405 S (1.3 mi)
- Take exit 9 toward 112th Ave SE/Newcastle (0.1 mi)
- Turn right onto Lake Washington Blvd SE (89 ft)
- Turn right to stay on Lake Washington Blvd SE (0.7 mi)
- Turn right (46 ft)
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Meydenbauer Bay Park
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3.3 miles NMeydenbauer Bay Park is the City of Bellevue's downtown waterfront beach, a wide sand and gravel swim area on a quiet inlet of Lake Washington with a curving 420-foot floating pier, a beach house with showers, and a hand-carry boat launch. Lifeguards work
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Seward Park
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3.4 miles WA free lifeguarded sand beach on Andrews Bay, the shallow sheltered water on the west side of Seattle's Bailey Peninsula, backed by the largest stand of old-growth forest left in the city. King County closes it for bacteria often enough that checking the
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Clyde Beach Park
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3.6 miles NClyde Beach Park is a small City of Bellevue swimming beach on Meydenbauer Bay, with a roped swim area, a historic boathouse, restrooms and a playground. Lifeguards cover a short summer window here, and King County does not sample this particular beach fo
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Medina Beach Park
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4.2 miles NWMedina Beach Park is a 1.44 acre City of Medina park on Lake Washington where a stone breakwater shelters about 50 feet of sand beach, an offshore swim float and a public dock. The city staffs lifeguards in midsummer, and Medina City Hall shares the same
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Medina Beach
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4.2 miles NWA free city-run swimming beach at the foot of Evergreen Point Road, with 50 feet of sand, a jetty-sheltered swim area, an offshore float and a dock out over Lake Washington. Medina Police staffs it with lifeguards from late June through the end of August.
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Colman Park Beach
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4.7 miles WAn unguarded stretch of public Lake Washington shoreline in a 24 acre Olmsted park, where cement steps from a swimming beach that closed in 1965 still run down into the water. Seattle's lifeguarded beach at Mount Baker sits a quarter mile south.
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Mount Baker Beach
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4.8 miles WFree, lifeguarded city swimming beach on Lake Washington at the foot of Mount Baker Park in Seattle, with a floating platform, a 1-meter diving board and a long fishing pier.
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Madrona Park
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5.3 miles NWMadrona Park is a free Seattle Parks and Recreation beach on the western shore of Lake Washington, with a lifeguarded swim area, two fixed platforms and a one meter diving board in summer. A wooded ravine full of trails climbs the hill above it, and the w
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6.1 miles ESunset Beach and Tibbetts Beach at the south end of Lake Sammamish, a 512-acre state park off I-90 in Issaquah with paddle rentals, playgrounds, trails and a boat launch.
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Madison Park Beach
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6.3 miles NWA free, city-run swimming beach at the foot of the old Madison Street cable car line, with a 1919 bathhouse, concrete swimming steps and a summer diving platform on Lake Washington. The 2026 guarded season ended September 7.
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Idylwood Park
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Magnuson Park Swimming Beach
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8.4 miles NFree, city-run swim beach on Lake Washington in Seattle's Magnuson Park, with a swim platform, bathhouse and outdoor shower, and lifeguards from late June to late August.
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Waverly Beach Park
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Matthews Beach Park
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West Green Lake Beach
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Angle Lake Beach
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Lake Wilderness Park Swim Beach
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14.8 miles SEFree city park beach on Lake Wilderness in Maple Valley with summer lifeguards, canoe and paddleboard rentals, a concession stand, a big playground and a 40-acre arboretum.
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Duvall Beach at McCormick Park
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15.2 miles NEA sandy river beach on the Snoqualmie at the north end of Duvall's McCormick Park, free and open dawn to dusk, with picnic shelters, a rinse shower and the Snoqualmie Valley Trail at its back. No lifeguards, and the city keeps two life rings on the bank.
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Steel Lake Park
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17.4 miles SSteel Lake Park is a 52 acre City of Federal Way park with a guarded sand swim beach on a 46 acre lowland lake. The swim zone is buoyed off, entry and parking are free, and a bathhouse, fishing pier, playground and sand volleyball pit sit behind the beach
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Dash Point Beach
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Blake Island
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Jade Lake
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47.3 miles EA 26-mile overnight backpacking route through the Snoqualmie region past wildflower meadows, Marmot Lake, and a steep talus scramble to a remote alpine lake for swimming.
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