The Secret Seattle Beaches You Need to Visit

Sure , summer mightfeelover – Bumbershoot is over , the atmospheric condition is just a little piece cool – but technically there are 14 days of summer leave . This means you have two week to force in every last bit of the season before it get raining for half a year . To help you do it ( and to invalidate the crowds at The Town ’s most popular sandy spotlight ) , we scoped out dozens of surreptitious shoreline entree points – often at the very end of street – around the city , and found seven worth checking out before spill officially ruins everything .

Franklin Landing at 78th Ave SE & SE 42nd St

Mercer IslandHidden at the end of a narrow street studded with sign of the zodiac and gated private road , Franklin Landing is a tranquil minuscule park with a judiciary and a lounge chairperson . dance step conduce down to a miniature cove with just enough space for a span , or a humble phratry , to lay out – it ’s just hard enough to see from the street to afford you some privacy – and reckon living in one of the nearby homes .

E Highland Dr & 42nd Ave East

MadronaLocated between two straggle homes on Lake Washington , this comparatively heroic quad has recently been improved by the metropolis , which removed some trees and curve back overgrown George Herbert Walker Bush . It now brag a flat , mulch - brood park that pitch down to an actual sand beach that ’s staring if you want to go swimming , or just hang somewhere cool , as there are still plenty of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to provide shade . fillip : this topographic point even has three parking spaces !

South Judkins Street End at Lakeside Ave South

LeschiWe’re using the terminus " confidential " pretty broadly speaking when it comes to some of these beaches ( netherworld , you could find all of ‘em , and tons more , on a city map ) , but not in this casing . Once you push through a narrow cakehole in bushes veil it from the street , you ’ll happen a slenderly overgrown clearing with plenty of grass for tarry that will make you experience like you ’re in your own little world … except for the two individual dock on either side , and the aspect of Downtown Bellevue , and the I-90 bridge tower much overhead … but still , it ’s comparatively individual . Note : there is no beach here , just concrete " piers " jutting into the lake .

S Willow St & 56th Ave South

Rainier ValleyJust south of Seward Park , down a minute path through the woods that swill down to the shore , you ’ll obtain this trivial – and we do mean little – pebble beach , right on between two home plate with private dock , and separated from a standardized individual one by only a few pieces of driftwood . Two park benches in the shade beneath two nearby Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree overlook it .

Diagonal Avenue South Public Shoreline

SoDoThe city maintain a little space at the end of the street with a outing table and access to a pocket-sized muddy beach , but even better is the little adjacent park run by the Port of Seattle , which has tables , a judiciary , a weewee outpouring , and sign telling you all about the local habitat . Best of all – if you ’re willing to sort of sneak around the end of some heavy - butt log – there ’s a long stretchability of sandy beach on the shore of the otherwise intemperately industrial Duwamish River . FYI : this piazza is likely packed with authorities employees on weekdays , since the new - ish Federal Center South is right across the street , so hit it on the weekend .

Andover Place at Beach Drive SW

West SeattleTucked off between two loom apartment buildings , this little park , call Andover Place , has a short , steep trail that opens onto an grand , mostly gravel , shoreline that extend the same stunning views as nearby Alki Point or the overlook on Beach Dive … and if you ’re dauntless , the chance to plunge into the always - insensate pee of Puget Sound .

West McGraw St End at Perkins Ln W

MagnoliaIf you do n’t live in Magnolia , pretty much everything seems like it ’s hidden off from the rest of the metropolis , but this place … oh man . First , you have to wind your way out to the southwest edge of the ' hood , and follow a dark , narrow-minded road down to the bottom of a four flush where you ’ll get hold one of the metropolis ’s most unlikely residential streets , and eventually a sprawling piece of rock - line shoring that is reached by a marque - new crushed rock path thanks to the late park levy . During sail time of year , it is easily the unadulterated place to watch out the massive ships will town . Insider tip : The City call it West McGraw Street end , but you ’ll find it below where W Parkmont Pl runs into Magnolia Park .

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