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on 11/22/2005 If you are visiting the Seattle area and want to see fall foliage, then The Washington Park Arboretum is a spectacular urban green space on the shores of Lake Washington just east of downtown Seattle and south of the University of Washington. Its 230 acres comprise a dynamic, living museum with collections of oaks, conifers, camellias, Japanese maples and hollies that are known internationally as our country's largest.

Location & Driving Directions:
Two hundred thirty acres extending from 40th Avenue East and East Madison on the south, to Highway SR-520 and Lake Washington on the north. From downtown Seattle: drive east on Madison St. to Lake Washington Blvd. E; turn left into the Arboretum. From Interstate 5: take exit 168 (Bellevue-Kirkland) onto Hwy. 520; take first exit to Lake Washington Blvd. E., and follow it into the Arboretum. From east of Lake Washington: drive west on the Evergreen Point Bridge (Hwy. 520) to the first Seattle exit (Lake Washington Blvd. S.); from the ramp turn left into the Arboretum. Buses: 11, 43, and 48 run near the Arboretum.