Bellevue
Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, located across Lake Washington from Seattle.
Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, located across Lake Washington from Seattle. It is the third-largest city in the Seattle metropolitan area, and the fifth-largest city in Washington. It has variously been characterized as a satellite city, a suburb, a boomburb, or an edge city. The population was 151,854 at the 2020 census. The city's name is derived from the French term belle vue.
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Worth seeing in and around Bellevue
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Lake Washington
Lake Washington is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the largest lake in King County and the second largest natural lake in the state of Washington, after Lake Chelan.
8.2 km · lake in Washington state, U.S. · Wikipedia - 02DigiPen Institute of Technology
DigiPen Institute of Technology is a private for-profit university in Redmond, Washington. It also has campuses in Singapore and Bilbao, Spain.
8.3 km · technical college located in Redmond, Washington · Wikipedia - 03Bill Gates's house
Bill Gates designed and owns a 66,000-square-foot mansion that is on Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.
6.8 km · building · Wikipedia - 04Seattle Washington Temple
The Seattle Washington Temple is the 21st constructed and 19th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in the city of Bellevue, east of Seattle, it was the first to be built in the state of Washington.
3.5 km · temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Bellevue, Washington · Wikipedia - 05Lake Sammamish State Park
Lake Sammamish State Park is a park at the south end of Lake Sammamish, in King County, Washington, United States. The park, which is administered by the Washington State Park System, covers an area of 512 acres and has 6,858 feet of waterfront; Issaquah Creek meets with Lake Sammamish within the park.
9.3 km · state park in Washington State, USA · Wikipedia - 06Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the 520 Bridge and officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, is a floating bridge that carries Washington State Route 520 across Lake Washington from Seattle to its eastern suburbs. The 7,710-foot-long floating span is the longest floating bridge in the world, as well as the world's widest, measuring 116 feet at its midpoint.
8.4 km · floating bridge opened in 2016 · Wikipedia - 07Bellevue Towers
Bellevue Towers is a high rise condominium complex in downtown Bellevue, Washington. Construction began in 2006 and was completed in 2009.
3.3 km · high-rise apartment building in Bellevue, Washington, U.S. · Wikipedia - 08Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge
The Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, also known as the Third Lake Washington Bridge, is a floating bridge in the Seattle metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Washington. It is one of the Interstate 90 floating bridges, carrying the westbound lanes of Interstate 90 and two tracks of the 2 Line, a Link light rail line, across Lake Washington between Mercer Island and Seattle.
9.1 km · Interstate 90 bridge opened in 1989 to augment the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge · Wikipedia - 09Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge
The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge is a floating bridge in the Seattle metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Washington. It is one of two floating bridges that carries Interstate 90 across Lake Washington from Seattle to Mercer Island.
9.1 km · Floating bridge opened in 1940 carrying eastbound Interstate 90 out of Seattle, Washington, United States · Wikipedia - 10One Lincoln Tower
Lincoln Square is a mixed-use urban development in Bellevue, Washington, owned by prominent local developer Kemper Freeman. Lincoln Square, located along Bellevue Way between NE 6th and NE 8th streets, consists of two skyscrapers with retail and restaurant space, and a movie theater; and a 148-room residential tower and 337-room luxury hotel; and underground parking.
3.6 km · hotel and apartment building in Bellevue, Washington · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bellevue
- Airports
- Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 22 km · Victoria (YYJ), 149 km · Vancouver (YVR), 191 km
- Stations
- Overlake Village, 2.6 km · Redmond Technology, 3.7 km
- Portland → Bellevue235 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · $23–31
- Spokane → Bellevue358 km · quickest by air, 4h 38m · $170–260
- Boise → Bellevue644 km · quickest by air, 6h 50m · $190–280
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bellevue
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bellevue. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSeaplane service is available between Seattle and various island destinations throughout Washington state and British Columbia.
- Get inRenton Municipal Airport (), farther from downtown than Boeing Field but still closer than Sea-Tac Airport, is another option for general aviation, with a sea plane dock at the north end of the airport on Lake Washington known as Wiley Post Memorial Seaplane Base.
- Get inAir charter companies fly a variety of private charter aircraft and jets for small groups and individuals.
- Get inThey serve the Mukilteo Ferry Terminal (18) and Paine Field Airport (8) from both Seaview Transit Center and Everett Station.
- Get inThe nearest Island Transit stop towards Seattle from Whidbey Island is at the Clinton Ferry Terminal (1, 58, 60).
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Next door to Bellevue
Bellevue is 13 km from Seattle, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Eastgatecensus designated place and neighborhood of Bellevue, Washington4.9 km
- Houghtonneighborhood of Kirkland, Washington6.5 km
- Madison Parkneighborhood of Seattle, Washington, U.S.9.7 km
- International School Bellevueschool in Bellevue School District, Washington, USA1.8 km
- Denny-Blainehuman settlement in Washington, United States of America9.6 km
- Lake Hillsneighborhood of Bellevue, Washington, US2.1 km