I-405, Lynnwood to Renton

Race boats once tore up the Sammamish Slough every spring — 47 races, 1928 to 1976, with crowds lining the banks.

Between Bothell West and Canyon Park, I-405 crosses over SR 524 and reaches the Bothell–Everett Highway interchange.

Old Totem Lake mall limped along for years — then they tore into it and built a whole new village of shops and apartments.

Two best friends started Woodinville Whiskey — and all its grain comes off the Omlin family's small farm in Quincy.

For years, come dusk, the sky over UW Bothell went black with crows — up to twenty thousand gathering at the campus wetland.

That drive-in was Microsoft's next-door neighbor back in the eighties — and the story goes a piece of Windows got named 'BurgerMaster' after the sign out front.

Juanita Bay Park was a nine-hole golf course until the 1970s — the city bought it and let it go back to marsh.

Kirkland's named for Peter Kirk, whose planned steel mill died in the Panic of 1893 before making any steel.

Kelsey Creek is a real farm the city runs — ponies, pigs, and sheep they shear every April.

A Seattle glassblowing company whose handmade votives raise money for cancer charities; its Bellevue shop opened in 2009.

Top Pot got its name from an old Topspot neon sign that lost its S while being moved.

Uwajimaya, founded in 1928, ran a Southcenter Mall store from 1968 to 1991 and opened in Renton in 2009.

Uwajimaya, founded in 1928, ran a Southcenter Mall store from 1968 to 1991 and opened in Renton in 2009.

Top Pot got its name from an old Topspot neon sign that lost its S while being moved.

Kelsey Creek is a real farm the city runs — ponies, pigs, and sheep they shear every April.

A Seattle glassblowing company whose handmade votives raise money for cancer charities; its Bellevue shop opened in 2009.

That drive-in was Microsoft's next-door neighbor back in the eighties — and the story goes a piece of Windows got named 'BurgerMaster' after the sign out front.

Juanita Bay Park was a nine-hole golf course until the 1970s — the city bought it and let it go back to marsh.

Kirkland's named for Peter Kirk, whose planned steel mill died in the Panic of 1893 before making any steel.

Old Totem Lake mall limped along for years — then they tore into it and built a whole new village of shops and apartments.

Two best friends started Woodinville Whiskey — and all its grain comes off the Omlin family's small farm in Quincy.

For years, come dusk, the sky over UW Bothell went black with crows — up to twenty thousand gathering at the campus wetland.

Race boats once tore up the Sammamish Slough every spring — 47 races, 1928 to 1976, with crowds lining the banks.

Between Bothell West and Canyon Park, I-405 crosses over SR 524 and reaches the Bothell–Everett Highway interchange.