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5.8 District 5

Broadview

Broadview is a neighborhood in northwestern Seattle, Washington, United States. It is at the northwestern corner of the city, adjacent to Puget Sound and the city of Shoreline to the north. The neighborhood is predominantly residential and includes portions of Carkeek Park.

Carkeek Park

950 NW Carkeek Park Rd,

Seattle, WA 98177, United States

https://www.seattle.gov/parks/allparks/carkeek-park

Carkeek Park is a 216-acre park (87 ha) in the Broadview neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. The park offers various attractions, including Piper Orchard, Pipers Creek with its tributaries, Venema Creek and Mohlendorph Creek, as well as picnic areas, shelters, and hiking trails.

Carkeek Park features diverse habitats—saltwater, riparian, wetland, upland forest, and meadow—that support a wide range of wildlife. Visitors can explore a six-mile trail network leading to a beach, playground, and a salmon imprinting pond, with scenic views of the Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound. The trails also pass by Demonstration Gardens and remnants of the park's original fir, hemlock, and cedar forests.

Piper's Creek

Piper's Creek in Carkeek Park in Seattle, Washington is a great place to see chum salmon. You can park along the creek and explore the trails to find the fish.

Chum Salmon Viewing Area

1251 NW 116th St, Seattle,

WA 98177, United States

Salmon Slide - Carkeek Park Playground

Salmon-themed playground in a nature reserve, where children can slide through a large-scale fish.

Piper's Creek Trail

Carkeek Park Beach

1400 NW Carkeek Park Rd,
Seattle, WA 98177, United States

Bitter Lake

4201 Linden Ave., Seattle, WA98133
https://www.seattle.gov/parks/allparks/bitter-lake-reservoir-open-space

Bitter Lake is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, named after its most notable feature, Bitter Lake. It was a mostly natural forest of Douglas-fir and Western Redcedar, inhabited by Native Americans, until the late 19th century. Development especially picked up when the Seattle-to-Everett Interurban streetcar reached the lake in 1906.

Bitter Lake is a small lake in northwest Seattle, Washington, USA. The lake covers 19 acres (77,000 m2), with a mean depth of 16 feet (4.9 m) and a maximum depth of 31 feet (9.4 m).

Haller Lake
13035 1st Ave NE,
Seattle, WA 98133

https://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/p-patch-gardening/garden-list/haller-lake

Haller Lake is a small lake and neighborhood in north central Seattle, Washington, named for Theodore N. Haller, who platted the neighborhood in 1905. His father, Granville O. Haller, was one of Seattle's early settlers, an army officer who amassed a large estate in the region.

Within the neighborhood are Northacres Park, a large, forested public park east of the lake on 1st Avenue N.E.; alma mater of Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, actor Adam West, and former Washington Governor Booth Gardner, in the northeast corner of the neighborhood.

Northacres Park
12718 1st Ave NE, Seattle,
WA 98125, United States
https://www.seattle.gov/parks/allparks/northacres-park

Lake City

Lake City is a neighborhood and the northeast region of Seattle, centered along Lake City Way NE, 7–8 miles northeast of downtown Seattle.

Mathew Beach

Matthews Beach is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington; it and Meadowbrook are the southern neighborhoods of the annexed township of Lake City. Matthews Beach lies about 2 miles northeast of the University of Washington, about 8 miles northeast of Downtown.

Matthews Beach Park
9300 51st Avenue NE Seattle, WA 98115
https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/ParksAndRecreation/Reserve/Picnic/MatthewsBeach.pdf

Matthews Beach Park is a 22-acre (0.9 km2) park in the Matthews Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It is a popular swimming beach in the summer, although it is also open during winter months.

The park also hosts an annual "Polar Bear Plunge" sponsored by Seattle Parks and Recreation on New Year's Day.

Meadowbrook

10517 35th Ave NE,
Seattle, WA 98125

https://meadowbrook.cc/neighborhood/

Meadowbrook is a neighborhood in the Lake City district (township annexed in 1954) of Seattle, Washington. Meadowbrook is centered on open fields adjacent to the Community Center, Meadowbrook swimming pool, and Nathan Hale High School. It is bounded on the south by NE 95th Street and the Wedgwood neighborhood, on the north by NE 120th Street and Cedar Park, on the west by Lake City Way NE (State Route 522) and Victory Heights, and on the east by 35th Avenue NE and Matthews Beach.

Meadowbrook Pond

3800 NE 105th St, Seattle, WA 98125

https://www.mountaineers.org/activities/routes-places/meadowbrook-pond

https://meadowbrook.cc/neighborhood/meadowbrook-pond/

Meadowbrook Pond is a Stormwater Detention and Flood-Control Facility that is also a wetland and wildlife sanctuary.

North Gate

Northgate is a neighborhood in north Seattle, Washington, named for and surrounding Northgate Mall, the first covered mall in the United States. Its north-south principal arterials are Roosevelt Way NE and Aurora Avenue N (SR 99), and its east-west principal arterials are NE Northgate Way and 130th Street.

Northgate Station

401 NE Northgate Way

Seattle, Washington, U.S.

https://www.simon.com/mall/northgate-station

Northgate Station (formerly Northgate Mall) is an enclosed shopping mall in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is located in the Northgate neighborhood on Interstate 5, adjacent to Northgate Way and Northgate station, a light rail station. The mall is anchored by Barnes & Noble, and Nordstrom Rack.

Northgate opened in 1950. It was the first shopping mall to be built in the post-war United States. The mall was developed by Allied Stores and was initially an open-air facility until being renovated in the 1970s. Now under Simon Property Group ownership, it is currently undergoing redevelopment into a mixed-use complex that includes operational and practice facilities for the Seattle Kraken National Hockey League team.

Nordstrom Rack
401 NE Northgate Way space 409,
Seattle, WA 98125, United States

https://stores.nordstromrack.com/us/wa/seattle/401-ne-northgate-way

Nordstrom Rack is an American off-price department store chain founded in 1973. It is a sister brand to the luxury department store chain Nordstrom. As of 2023, Nordstrom Rack operates 348 stores in 41 U.S. states.

Barnes & Noble

Northgate Station

401 NE Northgate Way #1100,

Seattle, WA 98125, United States

https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2280

Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. The company operates approximately 600 retail stores across all 50 U.S. states.

The company is known by its customers for large retail outlets, many of which contain a café serving Starbucks coffee and other consumables. Most stores sell books, magazines, newspapers, DVDs, graphic novels, gifts, games, toys, music, and Nook e-readers and tablets. The company offers publishing and self-publishing services.

It is a bookseller chain stocking housebrand eReader, plus a broad selection of titles for adults & kids.