Cotton Hill Park

Four acres with trails, ponds, stream, access to Cross Kirkland Corrido. It features a gravel path with interpretive signs.

This description of the park was written by a Highlands resident who visits the park almost every day:

One of the most interesting sections of park land in the Highlands also is one of the most accommodating for young children and the elderly, and appears to be wheelchair-friendly, especially if someone is pushing the chair. I am talking about the flat, 500-foot-long gravel trail that runs north-south in wooded Cotton Hill Park.

Parking is available at 110th Ave. NE and NE 98th St. This is where the trail begins.

At the beginning of the trail is a creek with a bridge over it. This creek is spring-fed and runs year round. Go another 50 yards and you arrive at two seasonal ponds – one on each side of the trail. During the summer, these ponds dry up completely. In the winter they fill up. After a downpour, some aficionados of the park like to check out how much the ponds have expanded.

When you come to the trail “T,” you can turn left onto the Cross Kirkland Corridor. Turning right takes you up a stairway to NE 100th St. and 111th Ave NE

There is limited street parking and no restrooms available at this park. 

Cotton Hill Park has been a Green Kirkland Partnership restoration site since 2008.

Located at: – 110th Ave NE & NE 98th Street, Kirkland WA 98033