35 Free Swimming Holes near Poulsbo, WA 98370
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Island Lake Park
Poulsbo
3.6 miles SFree 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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West Green Lake Beach
Seattle
14.8 miles EWest 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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Matthews Beach Park
Seattle
17.6 miles ESeattle'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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Madison Park Beach
Seattle
18.6 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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Magnuson Park Swimming Beach
Seattle
19.0 miles EFree, 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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Madrona Park
Seattle
19.1 miles SEMadrona 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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Colman Park Beach
Seattle
19.7 miles SEAn 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
19.8 miles SEFree, 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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Juanita Beach Park
Kirkland
20.2 miles EA free City of Kirkland beach on Juanita Bay of Lake Washington, with a shallow sandy swim area enclosed by a U-shaped dock and lifeguards in July and August. Bacteria closures are common in summer.
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Martha Lake Park
Lynnwood
20.2 miles NEFree Snohomish County park on the south shore of Martha Lake between Lynnwood and Mill Creek, with a small sand beach, an unguarded wading area and fishing docks.
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Waverly Beach Park
Kirkland
20.2 miles EWaverly Beach Park is a 2.8 acre City of Kirkland park on Lake Washington where a low U-shaped dock wraps around the swim area and keeps boat traffic out. Lifeguards work noon to 6 pm from July 1 through September 7, diving is banned everywhere on the sit
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Medina Beach
Medina
20.7 miles SEA 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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Medina Beach Park
Medina
20.7 miles SEMedina 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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Doris Cooper Houghton Beach Park
Kirkland
21.1 miles EFree 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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Clyde Beach Park
Bellevue
21.7 miles SEClyde 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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Meydenbauer Bay Park
Bellevue
22.1 miles SEMeydenbauer 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
Seattle
22.2 miles SEA 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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Chism Beach Park
Bellevue
22.4 miles SEFree 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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Thornton A. Sullivan Park at Silver Lake
Everett
22.8 miles NEFree City of Everett beach on the west shore of Silver Lake with a sandy, buoyed swim area, docks and restrooms. Open 6 a.m. to dusk, no lifeguards on duty.
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Pritchard Island Beach
Seattle
22.9 miles SEFree 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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