The point itself
The tip of the peninsula, open-lake frontage facing the 520 bridge and the skyline. The trophy parcels, generational in every sense.
Your insider guide to
Hunts Point
A one-road peninsula town of roughly 450 people between Cozy Cove and Fairweather Bay, where the lots run to the water on both sides and the town government fits in a single small hall. Hunts Point is the Eastside's quietest address, no shops, no through traffic, just old firs, low docks, and some of the most valuable residential land in the country.
What defines it: the very top of the market with privacy over prestige signaling, deep moorage in a no-wake cove, and Medina's school assignments with one-tenth the passing cars.
Where to live in Hunts Point
Cozy Cove side
The west shore's protected deep-water cove, calm moorage, afternoon sun, and docks built for real boats.
Fairweather Bay side
The east shore facing Yarrow Point, morning light, quieter water, and the Wetherill Preserve trails at the neck.
The interior lane
The handful of non-waterfront lots along Hunts Point Road, the only entry price under eight figures, and they trade once a decade.
What to expect
Roughly 150 homes, nearly all on large waterfront or near-water lots under mature firs. The architecture runs from 1930s lodges to brand-new compounds, and the town's design review keeps everything low, quiet, and screened from the road.
Inventory is close to zero in most years. Sales here are estates, divorces, and quiet handshakes, and the public listing, when it happens, is often the last step of a done deal.
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Eat & drink in Hunts Point
★ = run, don't walk
Belle Pastry ★
Old Main’s French bakery, the point’s unofficial commissary.
Cafe Juanita ★
Kirkland’s Michelin-storied Northern Italian, ten minutes north. The occasion room.
Mercato Stellina
Handmade pasta on Old Main, the reliable date night.
Monsoon Bellevue ★
Vietnamese fine dining worth the five-minute drive.
Chace’s Pancake Corral ★
The 1958 Bellevue pancake institution. Saturday ritual material.
Gilbert’s on Main
Old Main deli-brunch, the Reuben and the matzo ball soup.
Le Grand Bistro
Kirkland’s waterfront-adjacent French standby for long brunches.
Ascend Prime
31st-floor steak-and-skyline at Lincoln Square.
Civility & Unrest ★
Bellevue’s basement cocktail den, moody and excellent.
Cafe Cesura
Downtown Bellevue’s serious espresso room.
Lady Yum
Macarons and champagne at the Bellevue Collection.
Hunts Point, by season
Bare firs, still coves, and the quietest address on the lake at its quietest.
Eagles over Cozy Cove
Winter fishing season for the resident bald eagles. Watch from the dock.
Wetherill in the fog
The preserve’s gardens hold their bones beautifully in gray light.
Storm-watch from the point
South blows push whitecaps up the lake, the point takes the show head-on.
Snowflake Lane runs
Bellevue’s holiday parade is eight minutes away when December needs lights.
Dock light season
The lake’s winter constellation, every point home leaves one on.
Town holiday gathering
The little hall does one, and everyone actually goes.
The gardens wake up first here, the old estates planted for exactly this month.
Wetherill in bloom
The estate’s ornamental plantings peak April to May. Walk it weekly.
Opening Day from the water
The boat parade route passes close, idle out and watch from the bay.
Dock season prep
Bulkhead checks and boat lifts wake before Memorial Day.
520 trail rides
The lid park connects to the trail, Seattle by bike in about 40 minutes.
Cove herons nesting
Fairweather Bay’s rookery gets loud in the best way.
School enrollment window
Clyde Hill Elementary tours book up now for fall.
Dock life, cove swims, and the season the point was built for.
Fourth of July picnic
The town gathering, then every fireworks show on the lake at once.
Cozy Cove mornings
Glass water for the paddleboard before the boats wake.
Seafair by boat
The hydros and Blue Angels, fifteen minutes south at idle.
Dock swim season
The lake hits 70 by mid-July, the dock ladders earn their keep.
Evening sails
Fairweather Bay’s wind is gentle, perfect for the little boat.
Kirkland by water
Marina Park dinner runs, no parking required.
Gold maples over the lane and the lake handed back to the residents.
The lane in color
The old maples over Hunts Point Road earn the season.
Empty-lake weekends
September boating is the year’s best-kept secret.
Wetherill’s quiet turn
The preserve’s big trees go amber with nobody watching.
Bellevue High Fridays
The Wolverines draw the whole school district.
Salmon runs nearby
Kelsey Creek and Coal Creek get spawners, bring binoculars.
First-fire evenings
Chimney smoke over the cove, the point’s coziest hour.
Relocation fast track
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Only the locals know
Wetherill Nature Preserve
The old Wetherill estate at the neck of the point is now a quiet preserve of trails and gardens shared with Yarrow Point. Most Eastsiders have never heard of it. Keep it that way.
The town meeting matters
With 150 households, the council genuinely runs the place, docks, trees, and design review all get decided in the little hall. Show up twice a year and you know everyone.
Cozy Cove is the calm-water secret
Protected from the south wind, the cove stays glassy when the main lake chops up. Paddleboard water at 7am, twelve months a year.
The 520 lid park
The freeway runs under a landscaped lid at the point's neck, lawns, paths, and a bike connection straight onto the 520 trail toward Seattle or Redmond.
School bus, not car line
The Bellevue district buses pick up right on the lane. It is that kind of town.
Fourth of July at the point
The town picnic and the view of every fireworks show around the lake at once, from Kirkland to Bellevue to Seattle's barge. Best seats in the region, population 450.
The insider's playbook
A local's Saturday in Hunts Point
- Paddleboard on Cozy Cove while it is glass
- Walk the lane end to end, wave at all four cars
- Wetherill Preserve loop, the old estate gardens in quiet bloom
- Belle Pastry run on Old Main, croissants for the dock
- Boat out of the cove, lunch on the water off Kirkland's Marina Park
- Swimming off the dock, supervision optional
- Grill dinner as the 520 lights come on across Fairweather Bay
- Full dark, actual silence, fifteen minutes from two downtowns
Jeff's take
Hunts Point is the quietest trophy on the lake. Medina gets the headlines; the point gets two shorelines, no through traffic, and a town small enough to know every name. At the very top of this market, that privacy is the actual luxury.
You cannot shop for it on the MLS, most years there is simply nothing listed. Buyers land here through years-long relationships and a quiet word at the right time. That is the part I do.