Bellevue Parks & Community Services maintains over 2,700 acres of parks and open space land and over 80 miles of trails. The department also provides recreation programs for over 10,000 participants each year. View Parks & Community Services at a glance pamphlet or watch a video of our 2024 year-end highlights to learn more.
Swim Area Closure Notice
Updated: July 1, 4:39 p.m.
- Meydenbauer Bay Park: The swim area is closed until further notice due to high bacteria levels. For your safety, please stay out of the water. For test dates, results, and other places to swim, visit kingcounty.gov/swimbeach
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Register for Recreation Programs
Bellevue Parks & Community Services offers more value, more variety and more fun with our enriching and educational recreation programs for people of all ages and abilities. Join a youth sports league, get creative after school, take up a martial art, enhance your body and mind with yoga, sign up for swimming lessons or find adaptive programs for youth and adults with disabilities. Our programs offer you the opportunity to stay fit and active. Learn more
About Us
The Bellevue Parks & Community Services Department consists of diverse teams across parks, recreation, arts, culture, and community services, all dedicated to creating spaces, experiences, and programs that foster community vitality. Learn more about our structure and the people behind our mission by exploring our organizational chart.
Our Mission
To build a healthy community through an integrated system of exceptional parks, natural areas, recreation, arts and culture and a broad base of community services.
Our Vision
In Bellevue everyone can connect to each other and to nature through experiences that help them to live, grow and thrive.
Equity: A System of Fairness
Equity acknowledges and removes disparities in opportunities, power and resources, so everyone can reach their full potential. Bellevue Parks & Community Services practices equity, which is the responsibility of every individual in the department. Equitable access is a right, not a privilege, and is fundamental to our mission of serving all people. Through equitable policies and practices, we cultivate ties that connect people to the fabric of our community.