Shoreline is a suburb just north of Seattle, in King County. It is home to the Kruckeberg Botanic Garden.

Understand

Shoreline is one of Washington's newest cities, incorporated in 1995. However, the name dates back to the 1940s when a school district was created, whose boundaries stretched from "Shore to Shore" (Puget Sound to Lake Washington) and "Line to Line" (the old Seattle city limit of 85th St. to the Snohomish County Line). Though the modern borders of the city do not stretch to Lake Washington, due to Lake Forest Park to the east, the area kept the "Shoreline" name.

Get in

By car

Interstate 5 crosses north to south through Shoreline.

By light rail

Shoreline has two stops on the Link 1 Line, which goes north to Mountlake Terrace and Lynnwood, and south to Seattle and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. A train runs every 10-20 minutes. $3.

• 1 Shoreline South/148th station. (updated Oct 2024)
• 2 Shoreline North/185th station. (updated Oct 2024)

Get around

Shoreline's street grid is continuous with Seattle's, and is generally easy to navigate. There are a few common points of confusion: similarly-named 15th Ave NW and 15th Ave NE are both major north-south streets a few miles apart, and the street along the northern boundary straddles the county line, making it simultaneously 205th St (King County) and 244th St (Snohomish County).

By public transit

• King County Metro, ☏ +1 206-553-3000. Operates bus, streetcar, and monorail routes in King County. Communities within the county served by this operator's routes include Auburn, Bellevue, Bothell, Burien, Federal Way, Issaquah, Kent, Kirkland, Mercer Island, North Bend, Redmond, Renton, SeaTac, Seattle, Shoreline, Tukwila, Vashon Island, White Center, and Woodinville. (updated Jun 2023)

See

• 1 Kruckeberg Botanic Garden, 20312 15th Ave NW, ☏ +1 206 546-1281. F-Su only: 10AM–5PM summer, 10AM–3PM winter. A small, 4-acre garden and rare plant nursery, mixing native Pacific Northwest plants with a variety of foreign species, primarily East Asian.  

Buy

Shoreline's stretch of Aurora Avenue/WA 99 is a major hub for supermarkets, big-box retailers, and other businesses that require a larger footprint than can be found readily within Seattle.

Go next

Routes through Shoreline

Vancouver ← Mountlake Terrace ←	N  S	→ Seattle → Portland
Everett ← Edmonds ←	N  S	→ Seattle → Tacoma