40 Free Swimming Holes near Issaquah, WA
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Lake Sammamish State Park Beaches
Issaquah, Washington
2.3 miles NWSunset 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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Pine Lake Park
Sammamish
4.0 miles NFree, lifeguarded summer swim beach and floating dock at a City of Sammamish park on the east shore of Pine Lake, a small no-gas-motor lake on the Sammamish Plateau.
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Seattle Area Beaches
Leavenworth, Washington
7.7 miles WSwim near Leavenworth, Washington
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Enatai Beach Park
Bellevue
8.4 miles NWFree City of Bellevue beach on Lake Washington under the I-90 East Channel Bridge, with a roped swim area, swim dock and summer lifeguards. The waterfront is closed for King County sewer work starting October 2026.
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Idylwood Park
Redmond
8.4 miles NIdylwood Park is the only free public access to Lake Sammamish, a City of Redmond beach with a shallow sand entry and an aluminum swim dock. There are no lifeguards, and the small lot fills early on hot weekends.
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Clarke Beach Park
Mercer Island
8.5 miles WA quiet 9-acre city park on Mercer Island's southeast shore with a free, buoyed swim area on Lake Washington between two piers. No lifeguards; open 6 AM to 10 PM.
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Chism Beach Park
Bellevue
9.6 miles NWFree City of Bellevue beach on Lake Washington with a roped swim area, dock and swim float, plus summer lifeguards from noon to 7 p.m., a waterside playground and picnic lawns.
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Meydenbauer Bay Park
Bellevue
10.0 miles NWMeydenbauer 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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Clyde Beach Park
Bellevue
10.4 miles NWClyde 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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Seward Park
Seattle
10.6 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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Lake Wilderness Park Swim Beach
Maple Valley, Washington
10.6 miles SFree 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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Pritchard Island Beach
Seattle
10.8 miles WFree lifeguarded summer swim beach on Lake Washington in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, with a roped shallow area, floating platform, bathhouse and a wetland trail next door.
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Medina Beach Park
Medina
11.3 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
Medina
11.3 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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Doris Cooper Houghton Beach Park
Kirkland
12.1 miles NWFree lifeguarded City of Kirkland swim beach on Lake Washington, with a shallow kids' area, a deep-water dock where diving is allowed, and summer guards from noon to 6 p.m.
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Colman Park Beach
Seattle
12.4 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
Seattle
12.4 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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Snoqualmie River Area
Leavenworth, Washington
12.8 miles EScenic Snoqualmie River swimming areas are best visited in late summer when currents slow — strong currents have caused drownings at other times of year.
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Madrona Park
Seattle
12.9 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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Madison Park Beach
Seattle
13.5 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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