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Wilburton Station

Elevated 2 Line station on a viaduct over I-405 and the Eastrail corridor in the Wilburton area.

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Line

Wilburton Station is an elevated 2 Line light rail station carried on a viaduct just north of NE 8th Street, where the line crosses over Interstate 405 and the Eastside Rail Corridor (Eastrail). It opened on April 27, 2024.

The station serves the Wilburton commercial district, home to large-format retail and the Eastside's emerging Wilburton/Grand Connection redevelopment area, and provides a key link to the Eastrail multi-use trail that runs beneath it.

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Visitor and education center

Bellevue Botanical Garden Aaron Education Center

Wilburton

LEED Gold visitor and education center at Bellevue Botanical Garden, designed by Olson Kundig, opened 2014.

Type
Visitor / education center
Building opened
June 2014
Architect
Olson Kundig
Regional multi-use trail

Eastrail

Wilburton

A planned 42-mile regional rail-trail along the former Eastside Rail Corridor connecting Bellevue with five other Eastside cities.

Length
~42 miles
Lead
King County Parks
Connects
Bellevue, Renton, Kirkland, Woodinville, Snohomish, Redmond
Interstate freeway

Interstate 405

Wilburton

The 30-mile Eastside freeway bypassing Seattle, running through the center of Bellevue and intersecting I-90 and SR 520.

Length
30 miles
Bellevue-Kirkland segment opened
1956
Full route completed
1965
Historic rail trestle / trail

Wilburton Trestle

Wilburton

A 975-foot, 102-foot-high 1904 wooden railroad trestle, the longest in the Pacific Northwest, being converted to an Eastrail bridge.

Built
1904
Length
975 ft
Height
102 ft