The point tip
The north end around the town beach, open-lake views toward Kirkland and the biggest waterfront parcels.
Your insider guide to
Yarrow Point
The bigger, slightly busier sibling of the Points: a peninsula town of about 1,000 people with water on three sides, a beloved little town beach at the tip, and lanes that dead-end into docks. Yarrow Point is the livelier of the Points, more houses and more bikes in the driveways than Hunts Point, same firs, same hush.
What defines it: the Points lifestyle with actual neighbors, the step up from Clyde Hill toward the water, and a town beach at the end of the road worth more than a bigger kitchen.
Where to live in Yarrow Point
Cozy Cove side
The west shore shared with Hunts Point, protected water, boathouses, and afternoon light.
Yarrow Bay side
The east shore facing Kirkland's wetlands, morning sun, herons, and the quieter waterfront entry point.
The interior lanes
The dry-lot heart of the town, dead-end streets and driveway hoops, a short walk to the beach, and the value entry to the Points.
What to expect
Around 350 homes on a peninsula you can walk in twenty minutes. More turnover than Hunts Point, real households upgrading and downsizing, and a mix that runs from 1950s ramblers on the lanes to full waterfront compounds on the shores.
Interior lots are the quiet play: the town beach, the trails, and the school path come with every address, waterfront or not.
The buyer picture
Eat & drink in Yarrow Point
★ = run, don't walk
Cafe Juanita ★
Kirkland’s Michelin-storied Northern Italian, five minutes north. The occasion.
Chace’s Pancake Corral ★
The 1958 pancake institution, the Points’ Saturday ritual.
Le Grand Bistro
Kirkland’s French standby for the long Sunday table.
Gilbert’s on Main
Old Main deli-brunch, matzo ball soup and the Reuben.
Belle Pastry ★
Old Main’s French bakery, croissants for the beach.
Ascend Prime
31st-floor steaks and skyline at Lincoln Square.
Flatstick Pub (Kirkland)
Mini golf and local taps, the rainy-day outing.
Sirena Gelato (Kirkland) ★
The post-beach gelato run, five minutes up the shore.
Yarrow Point, by season
Quiet lanes, bare maples, and the wetland birds running the show.
Eagles over the bay
Winter is raptor season on Yarrow Bay. Binoculars by the window.
Wetherill in the mist
The preserve’s big trees at their moodiest and best.
Beach in boots
The town beach in January is a private gray-sky postcard.
Snowflake Lane runs
Bellevue’s holiday parade, eight minutes, when December needs lights.
Kirkland cozy season
The Slip and a walk on the empty marina docks.
Lane puddle season
Nobody at the beach cares. Buy better boots.
The peninsula greens up and the beach countdown begins.
Wetherill in bloom
The old estate plantings peak April to May.
Opening Day of boating
The parade passes the point, watch from the tip.
Wetland heron season
The Yarrow Bay rookery gets loud, kayak past quietly.
Beach cleanup day
The town’s volunteer Saturday, the social season opener.
Bike parade weather
The lanes fill with training wheels by April.
School tours
Clyde Hill Elementary enrollment windows open now.
Town-beach season. The whole point runs on a towel schedule.
The 5pm beach hour
The daily gathering at Road End, towels, gossip, watermelon.
Swim lessons at the beach
Generations have learned to swim off this sand.
Kayak commutes
Carillon Point coffee by water, twenty minutes.
Fourth of July
The Points picnic circuit and every fireworks show on the lake.
Seafair weekend
Hydros and Blue Angels, watch from a boat off the tip.
Long-light dinners
Grill on, the beach still busy at 8:30. Summer’s whole argument.
Gold lanes, quiet water, and the peninsula back to its residents.
Maple gold on the lanes
The dead-end streets earn the season.
Empty-lake boating
September is the best month on the water, locals only.
Wetland turnover
The bay’s birds swap to winter species, the show continues.
Bellevue High Fridays
The Wolverines draw the whole district.
Beach sunset walks
The tip faces Kirkland’s lights, fall’s best short walk.
Holiday boat parade prep
The lighted-boat committee forms early. Volunteer.
Relocation fast track
Your first 30 days in Yarrow Point
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Only the locals know
The town beach at Road End
The little beach at the tip of the point is residents-only in spirit and the center of summer. Swim lessons, sandcastles, and the unofficial town meeting, 5pm daily, June through September.
Wetherill is half yours
The nature preserve at the neck is shared with Hunts Point, old estate gardens, big trees, and a loop walk most of the Eastside has never found.
Yarrow Bay wetlands next door
The east shore looks across to one of the lake's largest wetlands, herons, beavers, and birdsong instead of neighbors' windows.
The 520 lid connects everything
Lawns and paths over the freeway link the Points to the 520 trail, Seattle by bike one way, Redmond the other, no car involved.
Kirkland by kayak
Carillon Point's coffee and restaurants are a twenty-minute paddle up Yarrow Bay. The commute nobody tells you about.
The lanes are the amenity
Dead-end streets mean zero through traffic, and the pavement doubles as a shared backyard. Buy on a lane, not a road, if childhood is the point.
The insider's playbook
A local's Saturday in Yarrow Point
- Kayak Yarrow Bay while the herons work the wetland edge
- Chace's Pancake Corral run, back by ten
- Wetherill Preserve loop, count the rabbits
- Bikes down the lanes, parents trail behind with coffee
- Town beach hours, swim ladder, sandcastle committee convenes
- The 5pm beach gathering, towels, gossip, and somebody's watermelon
- Grill at home or boat to Kirkland for dinner at the marina
- Crickets on the lane, the lake breathing at the end of the street
Jeff's take
Yarrow Point is the Points community with genuine street life, enough households that the lanes self-organize. You get the same school assignments and the same 520 access as Hunts Point and Medina, plus a town beach that functions as the best amenity on the Eastside.
The interior lanes are one of the smartest buys in the Points: town-beach rights and Bellevue High for the price of the dirt, no bulkhead maintenance included. When one lists, it moves in days. That early call is the part I do.