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The station was named "University of Washington" in 2012, leading to confusion with the existing University Street station in Downtown Seattle and the future U District station that would open west of the campus in 2021. [39] [40] Other suggested names included Montlake, Husky Stadium, and UW Medical Center. [41]
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church Home on Boyer Avenue. Montlake is a wealthy residential neighborhood in central Seattle, Washington.It is located along the Montlake Cut of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, bounded to the north by Portage Bay, to the east by the Washington Park Arboretum, [1] and to the south and west by Interlaken Park.
The path along the cut was designated a National Recreation Trail as Montlake Cut National Waterside in 1971. [1] The cut provides a connection between Union Bay, part of Lake Washington, to the east and Portage Bay, an arm of Lake Union, to the west. It is spanned by the Montlake Bridge, a bascule drawbridge carrying Montlake Boulevard (State ...
East Campus stretches east of Montlake Boulevard to Laurelhurst and is largely taken up by wetlands and sports fields. South Campus occupies the land between Pacific Street and the Lake Washington Ship Canal which used to be a golf course and is given over to the health sciences, oceanography, fisheries, and the University of Washington Medical ...
The University District (commonly the U District) is a neighborhood and a major district in central northeastern Seattle, Washington, comprising several distinct neighborhoods. The main campus of the University of Washington (UW) is located in the district, lending its name to both the district as well as University Way NE (commonly The Ave).
It sits at the southeast corner of campus, between Montlake Boulevard Northeast and Union Bay, just north of the Montlake Cut. The stadium is served by the University of Washington Link light rail station, which provides rail service to downtown, Rainier Valley and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. It is also accessible by several bus routes.
In Montlake, the highway intersects Montlake Boulevard and Lake Washington Boulevard just south of the University of Washington campus and Husky Stadium. [4] The freeway gains a set of HOV lanes and continues east on a pair of causeways through the marshlands of Union Bay and Foster Island, at the north end of the Washington Park Arboretum. [5] [6]
The Montlake Bridge is celebrated as the site of boating season's "opening day" festivities the first Saturday in May. The bridge and the Montlake Cut together are a City of Seattle Designated Landmark (ID 107995), [15] and the bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, as well as the Washington Heritage Register.