Washington State Route 520

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State Route 520 is a state highway and freeway in the U.S. state of Washington. It extends 12.82 miles from Seattle in the west to Redmond in the east.

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Originating at Interstate 5 in Seattle at the north end of Capitol Hill just south of Roanoke Park, it crosses Portage Bay on a viaduct, runs through the Montlake neighborhood, and from there runs on a causeway through the marshlands of the Washington Park Arboretum and across Foster Island. It crosses Lake Washington on the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (1963)--at 7,578 feet, the longest floating bridge in the world--to Medina. From there, it separates Hunts Point and Yarrow Point to the north from Clyde Hill to the south. Intersecting with Interstate 405 in Bellevue, it then runs through Redmond, bisects the Microsoft campus, crosses the Sammamish River and Bear Creek, and ends at Avondale Road N.E.

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SR-520 looking south from the N.E. 51st Street overpass. Mount Rainier is in the background.

The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge at night

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• Highways of Washington State