Friends of Street Ends formed to work with community groups to open and improve these tiny areas for access to the water by neighbors.
Seattle is home to dozens of tiny shoreline public access points, treasures in our city's shoreline program, and a long-kept secret in many of our neighborhoods.
When Seattle's streets were originally laid out back in the late 1800s, they were simply draped over the landscape, ignoring the idiosyncrasies of our city and its many bodies of water. As a result, this has created 140 'street ends' that dead-end on the waterfronts of Lake Washington, the Duwamish River, the Ship Canal, Lake Union and Puget Sound.
