HistoryLink Tours

7353 NE 175th Street

In April 2021, the Kenmore City Council approved a name change from Squire’s Landing Park to ƛ̕ax̌ʷadis (Tl’ awh-ah-dees) Park, the name of the Lushootseed village previously located in or near present-day downtown Kenmore. ƛ̕ax̌ʷadis translates to “a place where something is grown or sprouts” and honors the Coast Salish People who originally inhabited the area and the many Indigenous Peoples who still reside here.

The new name set the stage for the development of 11 acres of the newly renovated park, improving access to the water while restoring native vegetation for wildlife habitat. Improvements also included renovated riparian and salmon habitat along the Swamp Creek Shoreline, new wetlands and increased native vegetation. Over four acres of invasive species were removed and over 15,000 new native plants and 5,000 new native trees were planted throughout the park.

In addition to environmental enhancements and protections, the park includes new amenities for public access and recreation. Amenities include pedestrian bridges and viewing decks, accessible pathways, a watercraft wash-down station, elevated boardwalks, nature paths, a community gathering plaza and picnic shelter, kayak storage, launching facilities for hand carry watercraft, a public restroom and parking lot.

The Kenmore Heritage Society (KHS), in collaboration with the Burke Museum, assisted with new interpretive signs and native plant markers placed throughout the park. Parkgoers can identify plants and read the native plant names in Lushootseed, binomial nomenclature, common naming, and the ethnobotanical category of use.

Return the way you came. Brew Row begins with Cairn Brewery on 73rd Avenue NE, a half-block south of the Burke-Gilman Trail, which runs parallel to NE Bothell Way.