36 Free Swimming Holes near Seattle, WA
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Madrona Park
Seattle
2.3 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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Colman Park Beach
Seattle
2.6 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
2.6 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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Madison Park Beach
Seattle
3.3 miles NEA 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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Medina Beach Park
Medina
4.3 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
4.4 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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Seward Park
Seattle
5.1 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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West Green Lake Beach
Seattle
5.3 miles NWest 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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Clyde Beach Park
Bellevue
5.3 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
5.7 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
5.7 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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Pritchard Island Beach
Seattle
6.2 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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Magnuson Park Swimming Beach
Seattle
6.5 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
6.6 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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Matthews Beach Park
Seattle
6.8 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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Doris Cooper Houghton Beach Park
Kirkland
6.9 miles NEFree 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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Seattle Area Beaches
Leavenworth, Washington
7.2 miles SESwim near Leavenworth, Washington
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Clarke Beach Park
Mercer Island
7.5 miles SEA 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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Waverly Beach Park
Kirkland
7.7 miles NEWaverly 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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Juanita Beach Park
Kirkland
8.6 miles NEA 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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