Kirkland
Kirkland is a city in King County, Washington, United States.
Kirkland is a city in King County, Washington, United States. A suburb east of Seattle, its population was 92,175 in the 2020 U.S. census which made it the sixth largest city in King County and the twelfth largest city in the state of Washington.
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Worth seeing in and around Kirkland
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.
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The University of Washington is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, it is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the United States.
8 km · public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States · Wikipedia - 02Lake 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 - 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.
8.1 km · building · Wikipedia - 04DigiPen 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.
5.7 km · technical college located in Redmond, Washington · Wikipedia - 05Husky Stadium
Husky Stadium is an outdoor football stadium on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States. It has been home to the Washington Huskies of the Big Ten Conference since 1920, hosting their football games.
8 km · stadium in Seattle, Washington · Wikipedia - 06Henry Art Gallery
The Henry Art Gallery is the contemporary art museum of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. It is administered by the Arts Division of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Washington.
8.1 km · university art museum in Seattle, Washington · Wikipedia - 07Portage Bay
Portage Bay is a body of water, often thought of as the eastern arm of Lake Union, that forms a part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Seattle, Washington. To the east, Portage Bay is connected with Union Bay—a part of Lake Washington—by the Montlake Cut, over which spans the Montlake Bridge carrying State Route 513.
8.8 km · bay of Lake Union in Seattle, Washington, U.S. · Wikipedia - 08Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is the natural history museum of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. It is administered by the Arts Division of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Washington.
7.7 km · natural history museum in Washington, United States · Wikipedia - 09Lakeside School
Lakeside School is an independent, co-educational day school located in Seattle, Washington. It enrolls approximately 900 students in grades 5 through 12, and is divided into a Middle School and an Upper School.
8.5 km · school in Haller Lake, Seattle · Wikipedia - 10Woodland Park Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo is a wildlife conservation organization and zoological garden located in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. The zoo is the recipient of over 65 awards across multiple categories.
10 km · zoo in Seattle, Washington, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kirkland
- Airports
- Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 29 km · Victoria (YYJ), 138 km · Vancouver (YVR), 181 km
- Stations
- University of Washington, 8.1 km · Kenmore Air Harbor, 6.6 km · Roosevelt, 7.3 km · U District, 8 km
- Portland → Kirkland243 km · quickest by road, 4h 31m · $23–32
- Spokane → Kirkland358 km · quickest by air, 4h 58m · $190–290
- Boise → Kirkland650 km · quickest by air, 7h 10m · $210–310
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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 Kirkland
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 Kirkland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAll downtown ferries and water taxis operate from Pier 52, the , or Pier 50 that adjoins it to the south.
- Get inWashington State Ferries (WSF) operates the Seattle / Bainbridge Island route and the Seattle / Bremerton route from Pier 52 (Colman Dock), for both drive on and walk on traffic.
- Get inoffers passenger-only ferry service from Pier 50 to Bremerton, Southworth and Kingston where passengers connect to Kitsap Transit buses on the other side.
- Get inFor going to Port Orchard or Annapolis passengers would transfer to Kitsap Transit's other foot ferry in Bremerton.
- Get inWashington State Ferries is the only option for going to Bainbridge Island.
From Wikivoyage: Seattle/Downtown, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Kirkland
Kirkland is 13 km from Seattle, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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