36 Free Swimming Holes near Port Orchard, WA
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Island Lake Park
Poulsbo
10.1 miles NFree sand swimming beach at Kitsap County's Island Lake Park between Poulsbo and Silverdale, with a paved lakeshore trail, fishing pier and kayak launch. Check health advisories first.
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Mount Baker Beach
Seattle
16.5 miles EFree, 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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Colman Park Beach
Seattle
16.6 miles EAn 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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West Green Lake Beach
Seattle
17.0 miles NEWest Green Lake Beach is the longer running of the two lifeguarded beaches Seattle Parks operates on Green Lake, with two fixed platforms, a 50 yard lap lane and 1 meter and 3 meter diving boards behind the old 1927 bathhouse. Lifeguards cover it from lat
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Madrona Park
Seattle
17.1 miles EMadrona 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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Pritchard Island Beach
Seattle
17.4 miles EFree 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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Seward Park
Seattle
17.7 miles EA 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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Angle Lake Beach
SeaTac
17.8 miles SEAngle Lake Beach is the guarded sand swimming beach at Angle Lake Park, a ten-acre City of SeaTac park on the west shore of a 102-acre glacial lake less than a mile from the Sea-Tac runways. King County samples the water weekly through the summer, and the
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Madison Park Beach
Seattle
18.0 miles EA 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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Dash Point Beach
Federal Way, Washington
18.6 miles SEDash Point State Park beach catches afternoon sun and relatively warm Puget Sound water, with restrooms, an outdoor shower, and camping just steps away.
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Medina Beach Park
Medina
19.2 miles EMedina 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
19.2 miles EA 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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Clarke Beach Park
Mercer Island
19.7 miles EA 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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Matthews Beach Park
Seattle
20.1 miles NESeattle's largest freshwater bathing beach sits on Lake Washington at the foot of NE 93rd Street, with a roped swim area, a floating platform with diving boards, and lifeguards through the summer. King County tests the water weekly and closes this beach m
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Clyde Beach Park
Bellevue
20.1 miles EClyde 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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Chism Beach Park
Bellevue
20.2 miles EFree 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
20.4 miles EMeydenbauer 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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Magnuson Park Swimming Beach
Seattle
20.5 miles NEFree, 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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Enatai Beach Park
Bellevue
20.6 miles EFree 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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Seattle Area Beaches
Leavenworth, Washington
20.9 miles ESwim near Leavenworth, Washington
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